Dr. Daniele Durante
Daniele Durante (he/him) is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, and visiting researcher at Kanagawa University, Japan. He has completed his studies at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, where he has obtained a PhD in Japanese Studies. He specialises in cultural, social, gender, intellectual, and emotional history of premodern, modern, and contemporary Japan as well as in classical, premodern, and modern Japanese literature. He is interested in reconstructing the discourses around and the life histories of same-sex loving persons, cross-dressing persons, and gender-variant persons. Furthermore, he studies the control strategies authorities deploy to discipline the actions and police the bodies of these categories of people. He is also a literary translator, specialised in Japanese-Italian and Japanese-English translation. Moreover, he researches and is passionate about Japanese popular culture, media, and video gaming.
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