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 and social history of premodern and modern Japan and is interested in reconstructing the discourses around and the life stories 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.
Dr. Daniele Durante
Presentation Title: Of Jackets and Brushes: How Cross-Dressing Women Disrupted the Status and Gender Order of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Japan
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Past Speaker