Marzia Mauriello鈥檚 research areas听cover gender, health and body issues, and food cultures.听She has published, nationally and internationally, on topics related to gender and sexuality, gender variance, and on the intersection between food and gender in urban contexts.听For more than a decade she has been carrying out fieldwork activities mainly in Naples.听She has worked on food cultures in Naples in relation to gender, space, and migration. Her book on the topic is forthcoming.听听She is currently co-editing the forthcoming special issue 鈥淔ood and Gender: contemporary perspectives, studies, and research" for the journal Anthropology of Food.听
Marzia has participated in many national and international conferences and workshops and held seminars and lectures in universities in Italy and abroad.听听听She is the Scientific Secretary of the Study Center on Food and Nutrition of the Universit脿 di Napoli L鈥橭rientale and teaches Medical Anthropology at the Universit脿 Magna听Gr忙cia听of听听Catanzaro (Italy).听听She is a member of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), and other anthropological associations (Italian Society of Cultural Anthropology and of Medical Anthropology).听听
She has recently published听An Anthropology of Gender Variance and Trans Experience in Naples. Beauty in Transit听(Palgrave Macmillan, Oct. 2021).听
Selected publications (2016-2021)
Mauriello M.听(2021),听An Anthropology of Gender Variance and Trans Experience in Naples.听Beauty in Transit, London,听听Palgrave Macmillan.听
Mauriello M.,听Cuturi F.G. (2019), 鈥淪cambi di patrimoni: itinerari etnografici tra i cibi di strada a via Toledo鈥�, in Viganoni L. (eds.)听Commercio e consumo nelle citt脿 che cambiano. Napoli, citt脿 medie, spazi esterni, FrancoAngeli, Milano, p. 315-349.听
Mauriello M.听(2019), 鈥淭ransgender beauty. Soggettivit脿, genere e corpo nell鈥檈sperienza trans a Napoli鈥�,听Antropologia Pubblica, n.5 (2), p. 55-70.
Mauriello M.听(2018),听鈥淐orpi dissonanti: note su听gender variance听e sessualit脿. Il caso dei femminielli napoletani鈥�,听AAM-Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo, XXI, n. 20 (2), p. 1-21.
Mauriello M.听(2018),听鈥淟a nuova abbondanza. Pratiche alimentari, donne e famiglie nella Napoli contemporanea鈥�, in Cipolla C., Corposanto C. (eds)听Le culture del cibo. Elementi di sociologia della condivisione alimentare, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2018, p. 23-42.听
Mauriello M.听(2017), 鈥淢angiare, nutrire, cucinare: note su cibo e genere nel Mediterraneo e altrove鈥�,听Comunicazionepuntodoc, Bologna, Logo Fausto Lupetti Editore, p. 51-64.
Mauriello M.听(2017), 鈥淲hat the Body Tells Us.听Transgender Strategies, Beauty and Self-Consciousness鈥�, in Rees Emma L.E. (ed.)听Talking Bodies. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Embodiment, Gender and Identity, London, Palgrave Macmillan,听p. 55-73.
Mauriello M.听(2016),听Drammi di genere. Femminile e maschile nel teatro di Raffaele Viviani, Quaderni di 鈥淐ivilt脿 e Religioni鈥�, Padova, Webster, Edizioni Libreriauniversitaria.it.
Mauriello M.,听(2016),听鈥淐ibo, genere ed educazione alimentare. Matricentralit脿听e dispersione scolastica a Napoli鈥�, in Niola M. (ed.),听Antropologie del contemporaneo.听Patrimoni, simboli, tendenze, 鈥淐ulture. Collana di studi antropologici鈥� vol. 1, Lecce,听Pensa Multimedia,听p. 121-142.
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