Museums, Memory and the Shaping of Identity

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Museums, Memory and the Shaping of Identity
A conversation with Professor Eviatar Zerubavel (Rutgers University)
by Mauro Spicci

Mauro Spicci, University of Milan

Mauro Spicci received the PhD in English Studies in January, 2008. From 2004 to 2008 he worked as Lecturer in History of British Drama at the Università degli Studi di Milano, where he also worked as lecturer in translation studies at the faculty of Political Science and as lecturer in English culture at the faculty of Mediazione Linguistica e Culturale. He took part to several national and international conferences. He has published several articles on body metaphors in Shakespeare’s plays, the relations between medicine, drama and literature in early modern England, the link between medical anatomy and Elizabethan allegorical poetry, bodily fragmentation in contemporary drama, and the iconography of Shakespearean characters/actors. His monographic work entitled The Purple Island (1633) di Phineas Fletcher: un’anatomia. Corpo e ibridazioni discorsive nell’Inghilterra elisabettiana was published by Ed.It in 2009.