CULTURES OF INCARCERATION SEMINAR SERIES 2026/27 - Speaker Dr Alessia Zinnari, University of Glasgow
Online
Wednesday 11th November 2026
Title of Talk
"As Above, so Below: Psychiatric Institutionalisation, Gender Violence, and Surrealist Art in the World of Leonora Carrington"
Dr Zinnnari recently completed a PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Glasgow, where she is currently working as a Lecturer in Italian and GTA in Spanish. Her research focuses primarily on mental illness and women’s writing, and on the relationship between creativity, healing and self-determination. Her thesis, entitled ‘Mental Illness, Women’s Writing and Liminality: A Comparative Study of Leonora Carrington and Alda Merini’, is grounded in feminist theory and focuses on the works that the two authors produced as a result of their experiences of hospitalisation in psychiatric institutions.
"As Above, so Below: Psychiatric Institutionalisation, Gender Violence, and Surrealist Art in the World of Leonora Carrington"
Dr Zinnnari recently completed a PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Glasgow, where she is currently working as a Lecturer in Italian and GTA in Spanish. Her research focuses primarily on mental illness and women’s writing, and on the relationship between creativity, healing and self-determination. Her thesis, entitled ‘Mental Illness, Women’s Writing and Liminality: A Comparative Study of Leonora Carrington and Alda Merini’, is grounded in feminist theory and focuses on the works that the two authors produced as a result of their experiences of hospitalisation in psychiatric institutions.
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