Calefato, Patrizia – TRANS

Calefato, Patrizia, Associate Professor at the Università degli studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”, Department of “Lingue e tradizioni culturali europee”, Faculty of “Lingue e Letterature straniere”. She teaches “Sociolinguistica”, “Linguistica informatica”, “Analisi socio-antropologica del prodotto di moda”.

Fields of interest: Social dimension of language, Fashion studies, Sociosemiotics, Cultural studies, Feminist studies, Audiovisual media studies.

Editorial Boards: Board of Advisors “Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture” (Berg).
Board of Advisors “Lectora. Revista de dones i textualitat”, Barcelona.
Director of the Series “Culture, segni, comunicazione”, Progedit (Bari).
Co-Director of the “Yellow Series”, Graphis (Bari).

International teaching: Stockholm University; University of Helsinki; New Bulgarian University, Sofia.

Main recent Publications:

In Italian
- Gli intramontabili. Mode, persone, oggetti che restano, Roma, Meltemi, 2009. Mass moda, Roma, Meltemi 2007. Che nome sei? Nomi, marchi, tag, nick, etichette e altri segni, Roma, Meltemi, 2006. Lusso, Roma, Meltemi, 2003.
In English:
- Across the Borders of Fashion and Music. The Clothed Body and the Senses, “Anglistica” http://anglistica.unior.it/content/across-borders-fashion-and-music-clothed-body-and-senses, Anglistica ISSN: 2035-8504. Body and Beauty. In Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion: Volume 8 – West Europe Edited by Joanne B. Eicher. Oxford: Berg Publishers: Part of the Berg Fashion Library (2010): 487-495 (transl. by Sveva Scaramuzzi). Part of the Berg Fashion Library (2010). http://www.bergfashionlibrary.com/view/bewdf/BEWDF-v8/EDch8080.xml. Fashion as cultural translation: knowledge, constrictions and transgressions on/of the female body, “Social Semiotics”, 20: 4, 343–355.
- Language and Fashion. From the name of God to the power of the brand, in Over Kleding en Kunst, Jan Brand, Catelijne de Muijnk eds., Arnhem, Artez, 2009, pp. 126-136. Language in social reproduction: sociolinguistics and sociosemiotics. “Sign System Studies”, vol. 37 (1/2), 2009, pp. 43–81. The angel of fashion, “Vestoj”, n. 1, 2009, pp. 137–143. Fashion as Sign System, in J. Brand, J. Teunissen, in coop. with A. van der Zwaag, editors, The Power of Fashion, Arnhem, Terra ArtEZ Press, 2006. The Clothed Body, Oxford, Berg, 2004. “‘Light my fire’: Fashion and Music”, Semiotica 136 1 / 4, 2001, pp. 491–503.
In Spanish:
- deSignis 12, publicación de la Federación Latinoamericana de Semiótica (FELS), Traducción/Género/Poscolonialismo, Coordinadoras: Patrizia Calefato y Pilar Godayol, La Crujía, Buenos Aires, 2008. Semiótica del uniforme. Semiotics of the Uniform, “Exit” 27, Madrid, Olivares, 2007, pp. 22–39. La escritura/lectura electrónica en la plaza de la red, in Textualidades electrónicas, ed. Laura Borras Castanyer, Barcelona, Editorial UOC, 2005, pp. 115–127. Moda y cine (ed.), Valencia, Engloba, 2003. El sentido del vestir, Valencia, Engloba, 2002; El cuerpo vestido, los sentidos y la escritura : entre la moda y el cine, DeSigniS N°1 Barcelona, Gedisa, octubre 2001, pp. 213–224.
In German:
- Semiotik der Kleidung, “Zeitschrift für Semiotik”, P. Calefato, A. Giannone, D. Mosbach hrsg., Band 27, Heft 3, Tübingen, Stauffenburg Verlag, 2005.
In Portuguese:
- Fundamentos de Filosofia da Linguagem (with A. Ponzio and S. Petrilli), Rio de Janeiro, Vozes, 2007.
In Russian:
- Роскошь, элегантность, изысканность (Luxury, Elegance, Refinement: The Economic Function of Luxury and Sociological Means of Distinction), in “Теория моды” (Fashion Theory) 12, лето (Summer) 2009, Новое Литератүрное Обозрение, pp. 9-26 (Moscow).
In French:
- Le nom de l’accessoire, in Access to Accessory, Haute école d’arts appliquée, Géneve, Geneva University of Design, pp. 32-35.

Email: patriziaccia@gmail.com

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