Rossella Mazzaglia
Rossella Mazzaglia (Italy) is associate professor in Performance Studies at the University of Bologna. She is the director of the High Degree Course in Artistic Mediation in Intercultural Contexts and was priorly co-director of the Social Practice Lab (2017-2018) at the Summer School in Global Studies and Critical Thinking (sponsored by the University of Bologna, Duke and Virginia University). She has authored five books and more than 50 articles and was editor of three collective publications. Her publications particularly focus on American postmodern dance, Italian contemporary theatre and dance forms representing subcultural, underground, social and community practices undermining the official performance scene. She has lectured in Italy, Poland, France and the United States. At the University of Bologna, she is the Department of the Arts research groups on: Arts and Politics; Audience Development and Audience Engagement (within the Creative Europe Program); Arts and Sustainability. She is P.I. of the University of Bologna project Generation Z and performance art: Education to the collective perception.