Overview
Tania Rispoli (she/her/hers) is a Postdoctoral Associate for the NEH Collaborative Grant "The Value of Care".
Tania is currently working on a manuscript entitled "The Politics of Care: Feminist Infrastructures of Love and Labor." Using the interdisciplinary methodology of feminist political theory, literature, and film studies, she completed a dissertation on the politics of care across post-humanism and Marxist-feminism. The politics of care, she argues, is the result of processes of embodiment and disembodiment, regeneration and conflict, love and labor. Her work has been published in "Feminist Studies", "Philosophy and Public Issue", "Studi sulla Questione Criminale" and "Annali di Italianistica". She also translated works from English into Italian, such as Hardt & Negri's "Assembly" and Mezzadra & Nielsen's "The Politics of Operations: Excavating Contemporary Capitalism.
She has received fellowships and awards from the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University, including the Dissertation Fellowship and the Anne Dora Little Service.
She teaches in both the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies Program at Duke University. She has designed courses, available upon request, on "Italian Feminist Writers," "Revolutions in Italy," "Women at Work," and "Introduction to Digital Feminism. She cross-listed the latter with several departments, including Computer Science, Sociology, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, and three very popular certificates at Duke University focused on technology and innovation. This system has allowed students majoring in STEM fields to explore digital environments through a feminist lens.
With Jocelyn Olcott, she is co-director of the interdisciplinary and international network "Revaluing Care in the Global Economy," recently awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Franklin Humanities Institute. This project aims to rethink how societies value care, with a particular focus on underrepresented perspectives. During more than four years of engagement, she developed communication and research tools for students and general audiences, worked as a public scholar, and organized several events, including international hybrid and in-person conferences, such as the "15th," "16th," and "17th Annual Feminist Theory Workshop" at Duke University and the international conference "Visualizing Care: Imaginaries & Infrastructures.