Curriculum VItae of the Professor Maddalena Mazzocut

MADDALENA MAZZOCUT-MIS
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy – Università degli Studi di Milano
Competition area: 11/C4 - AESTHETICS AND PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
Scientific-discipline sector: M-FIL/04 - AESTHETICS
EDUCATION
1988-89
Bachelor Degree in Philosophy at the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. Thesis in
Epistemology: “Il mostro: strumento euristico e sperimentale. Un’analisi delle opere di Etienne e Isidore Geoffroy
Saint-Hilaire”. Mark: 110/110 cum laude.
1991-92/1992-93
Post-graduate scholarship (visiting scholar) at the “Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales” in Paris.
1992-93/1996-97
Ph.D. in Philosophy (Aesthetics) at the Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy. Dissertation: “Autonomia formale.
Metamorfosi delle forme tra vita, stile, natura e tecnica a partire dal pensiero di Henri Focillon”.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
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Modern and Contemporary Continental Philosophy.
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Eighteenth century Aesthetics.
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History of Aesthetics.
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Aesthetic categories.
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Problems relating to form and morphology.
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Performance and Theatre Aesthetics.
RESEARCH TOPICS
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Eighteenth century English and French Aesthetics.
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Contemporary French Aesthetics.
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Relationship between Aesthetics-Visual Arts, Literature and Theatre.
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Ideas-Theories in the History of Aesthetics.
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Enjoyment in the Arts.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
1989-90/1997-98
Collaboration with the scientific and didactic activities of the chairs of Aesthetics at the Università degli Studi di
Milano, Italy (organizing seminars, supervision of MPhil and PhD candidates, etc.).
1996-97/1997-98
Professor of Aesthetics (temporary assignment) at the Department of Architecture (Facoltà di Architettura, MilanoBovisa, Italy).
01-11-1998/10-11-2001
Researcher at the Department of Philosophy (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy).
1999-2000
Professor of Aesthetics (temporary assignment) at the Department of Architecture (Facoltà di Architettura, MilanoBovisa, Italy).
10-11-2001/01-11-2002
Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy).
01-11-2002/01-11-2006
Associate Professor of Aesthetics at the Department of Philosophy (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy).
01-11-2006/present
Associate Professor of Aesthetics and of Aesthetics of the Performing Arts at the Department of Philosophy (Università
degli Studi di Milano, Italy).
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS (2009-2012)
PRIN 2009
Scientific Unit Director for the National PRIN project (DM 14.07.11, n. 404/ric. [Project n. 452, area 11, Chief
Scientific Director: Luigi Russo, Università degli Studi di Palermo. Partners: Università degli Studi di Milano,
Università degli Studi di Firenze and Università degli Studi di Salerno]).
(http://attiministeriali.miur.it/media/174349/progetti_finanziati_prin_2009.pdf)
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CARIPLO – Bando “Nuovo pubblico”, 2012, prima scadenza
Scientific Director for the national project “SENSI/TEATRO/FILOSOFIA. Strategie di comunicazione nei luoghi di
cultura per educare e stimolare il pubblico giovane alla fruizione teatrale” (Bando Nuovo pubblico 2012, prima
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scadenza), promoted by FONDAZIONE CARIPLO. Partners: Università degli studi di Milano – CSBNO (Consorzio
Sistema Bibliotecario Nord-Ovest) – Fondazione Collegio delle Università milanesi.
CNL – France (Centre National du Livre)
The essay “Il senso del limite” (Le Monnier, 2009), translated into French by O. Weyer with the title: “Le sens de la
limite. La douleur, l’excès, l’obscène” (Mimesis France-Vrin, Paris 2012) was granted a subsidy by CNL – France
(Centre National du Livre – Établissement public du Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, le Centre national
du livre a pour mission d’encourager la création et la diffusion d’ouvrages de qualité), Article 6575, Subventions à
l’édition, § 6575.8 – Aides à la publication (http://www.centrenationaldulivre.fr/IMG/pdf/Bilan_des_aides_2011.pdf).
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EDITORIAL TASKS: SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS
Founding member, editor and director of the online journal “Itinera” [since 2001]. “Itinera. Rivista di Filosofia e di
Teoria delle Arti e della Letteratura” (http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/itinera/) together with G. Mormino.
Scientific and editorial coordinator of the online journal “Lebenswelt”
(http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/Lebenswelt/index).
Scientific and editorial coordinator of the online journal “Leitmotiv” (http://www.ledonline.it/leitmotiv/).
EDITING TASKS: BOOK SERIES (ITALIAN)
Editor of “Morfologie”, Mimesis, Milano (http://www.mimesisedizioni.it/catalogo.pdf). Scientific Board: Baldine
Saint-Girons (Membre dell’Institut universitaire de France, Université de Paris Ouest), Gianfranco Mormino
(Università degli Studi di Milano), Gabriele Scaramuzza (Università degli Studi di Milano),Wolfgang Rother
(Universität Zürich).
Editor of “Filosofie del teatro”, Mimesis, Milano (http://www.mimesisedizioni.it/catalogo.pdf). Scientific Board:
Alberto Bentoglio (Università degli Studi di Milano), Dariusz Lesnikowski (Università di Łodz), Mireille Losco-Lena
(Université Lumière, Lyon 2), Maria Filomena Molder (Universidade Nova de Lisboa).
Editor of “Le forme del sentire”, LED, Milano (http://www.lededizioni.com/catalogo.html).
OTHER PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Membership: Società Italiana di Estetica (SIE).
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (2002-2010)
From a strictly scientific viewpoint, my research has developed on various levels.
The first level, whose project started in the academic year 2000-2001, was based on the themes of form,
image, creation and the perception between touch and sight. Some essays and articles originated in their first
drafts from a further elaboration of these topics, relating with the role of the aesthetically sensitive
representation in cognitive processes. The results of this commitment focused on the aesthetics of tactile and
visual values, upon which the book “Voyeurismo tattile” (2002) is based.
The second level was aimed at analysing the problem of ‘aesthetic categories’. A number of essays were
dedicated to this subject, namely to the categories of ‘limits’, such as those of the ugly, the sublime, the
pathetic and the kitsch. This study resulted in the publication of an essay, “Dal brutto al kitsch” (2003), two
critical anthologies, “Lo spazio melodrammatico” (2004) and “I luoghi del sublime moderno” (2005), one
monography, “Il gonzo sublime. Dal patetico al kitsch” (2005; translated into French in 2010), and a collection
of essays written together with P. Giordanetti, “Rappresentare il brutto”; in particular one monography, “Il
senso del limite” (2009), translated into French (2012) and into English (“How Far Can We Go? Pain, Excess
and the Obscene”, 2012).
The third level takes into main consideration the aesthetics of the eighteenth century. From the collection of
essays “Tatto e passione. Percorso antologico-critico” (2001) to the volume “Animalità. Idee estetiche
sull’anima degli animali” (2003), the research had as its objective the evolution of eighteenth century
aesthetics, including fruition, perception and creation. Still focusing on the eighteenth century context, a
translation into Italian of the essay “Réflexions critiques sur la poésie et sur la peinture” by J.-B. Du Bos, was
published in collaboration with P. Vincenzi, in 2005. A volume of proceedings was then published in 2008: “Il
secolo dei Lumi e l’oscuro”, edited with P. Giordanetti and G. Gori, a collection of papers given at a
Conference of the same name. The theme of the aesthetics of actors in the eighteenth century is examined in
the volume “Corpo e voce della passione. L’estetica attoriale di J.B. Du Bos”, published in 2010. A selection
of extracts from the “Salons” by D. Diderot was translated and published in 2012 (eds. Bertolini, MazzocutMis, Messori, Rozzoni, Vincenzi).
The fourth level deals with the aspect of teaching Aesthetics, which inspired the preparation of a second
textbook entitled “Estetica. Temi e problemi”, 2006 (the first textbook, “Estetica”, was written in collaboration
with E. Franzini in 1996 and its second edition was subsequently published in 2010). Later on it was followed
by “Estetica dello spettacolo e dei media”, written in collaboration with E. Tavani and published in 2012.
The fifth level is meant to analyse the theme of fruition and reception. The subject matter will necessarily be
the role of spectators, from the judgment of taste to any element that is strictly related to feelings. The results
of this research are combined in two collections of essays, both published in 2008: “L’esperienza estetica”
(edited with M. Accornero) and “Estetica della fruizione. Sentimento, giudizio di gusto e piacere estetico”.