Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, Ph.D., is a writer, scholar, activist, translator, and public speaker. She is also a Professor of Humanities, Italian, and Cinema at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, and a postmodern nomad whose projects are transforming and transdisciplinary. She is the author and/or editor of several books. Her current interests include human and global ecology, erotic expression, and emotional sustainability.
This website is a guide to her writings, biography, places, projects, and activites. Please feel free to browse it at your ease. You will find many samples of her materials, links to online sites where you can buy her books, links to information about hospitality in the communities where she lives, and descriptions of what she's up to. You can also communicate with her. The Feedback link leads to Serena's email address; the Guestbook link to the book of website visitors. Please feel free to use both and either.
Serena’s first book, The “Weak” Subject: On Modernity, Eros, and Women’s Playwriting (1998) is a comparative study of women’s authorship in the modern theater. Its Italian translation has appeared for ManifestoLibri by the title of Due in una (2004). The edited volumes she has contributed to include Natalia Ginzburg: A Voice of the Twentieth Century, Feminine Feminists: Cultural Practices in Italy, and Franca Rame: A Woman Onstage. For the community based Journal of Bisexuality she has guest edited two special-topics issues, Women and Bisexuality: A Global Perspective (June, 2003); and Plural Loves: Designs for Bi and Poly Living (February 2005), both of which are also available as books from Haworth Press. Her English translation of Luigi Anderlini’s poetry collection, A Lake for the Heart/Il lago del cuore, has appeared with Gradiva Publications in 2005. Her memoir, Eros: A Journey of Multiple Loves, has appeared with Harrington Park Press in December 2006. Gaia & the New Politics of Love: Notes for a Poly Planet has appeared in September 2009 with North Atlantic Books, Berkeley. This contribution to science studies and systems theory is the first study that links global peace, health, and ecology to the sexual freedom movement. The book outlines the paradigm shift toward a Gaian future, where humanity makes peace with our hostess planet thanks, also, to the contributions of the AIDS Dissidence Movement. Readings about her books have been hosted by the California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco, UC Berkeley, the Belladonna Bookstore in Berkeley, the Bluestockings Bookstore in New York City, and the Obelisk Bookstore in San Diego, among others.
Refereed journals that have hosted her articles and oral-history interviews include Diacritics, DisClosure, Feminist Studies, Literature, Consciousness, and the Arts, Nebula, New Cinemas, Rhizomes, Theater, VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, Women and Language, and Women’s Studies International Forum. She is the co-translator of In Spite of Plato, a book of feminist theory by Italian philosopher Adriana Cavarero, for Polity Press, 1995.
Webpage: www.serenagaia.com
Email: serena.anderlini@gmail.com
Serena's projects involve collaborations with a number of communities around the world whose websites can be accessed at the links below.
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