Professor Derek Duncan
Contact Details
ded3@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: 01334 463668
Office: Buchanan 303
Research and Teaching
My research focuses mainly on modern Italian literature and film with a particular emphasis on issues of sexuality, gender, and colonial/postcolonial Italy. I am particularly interested in texts which explore the intersection of identities grounded in constructions of sexuality/gender and of race/ethnicity. I draw extensively on Queer Theory and Postcolonial Theory and am interested in the issues of transcultural interpretation they raise when they move into the Italian context. My current project is a book on films dealing with migration to Italy and I am also working on a project which looks at constructions of race in Italy. Further areas of specialism are: cultural identity; memory; self-representation; cultural geographies, transnational identities. My teaching in Italian reflects my research interests and I also contribute to the degree in Comparative Literature.
I am founding Senior Editor of the Cultural Studies issue of the long-established journal Italian Studies. The first issue was published in 2009.
Publications
Reading and Writing Italian Homosexuality: a case of possible difference
Duncan, D. E.
2005
Aldershot and Burlington:
Ashgate
.
Research output
:
Book/Report
›
Book
'Is it because I'm a wop?: Queer Diaspora and Postcolonial Italy
Duncan, D. E.
2012
In:
New Persepctives in Italian Cultural Studies: Volume 1: Definitions, Theory, and Accented Practices.
Parati, G. (ed.). Madison:
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
,
p. 175-93.
18 p.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter
Grave Unquiet: the Mediterranean and its Dead
Duncan, D. E.
2011
In:
Mediterranean Travels: Writing Self and Other from the Ancient World to Contemporary Society.
Silvia, R., Crowley, P. & Humble, N. (eds.). Oxford:
Maney
,
p. 209-22.
13 p.
(Legenda).
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter
Kledi Kadiu: Managing Postcolonial Celebrity
Duncan, D. E.
2010
In:
National Belongings: Hybridity Italian Colonial and Postcolonial Cultures.
Andall, J. & Duncan, D. (eds.). Oxford:
Peter Lang
,
p. 195-214.
19 p.
(Italian Modernities).
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter
Kledi Kadiu: Italian National Cinema and Postcolonial Stardom
Duncan, D. E.
2009
In:
Celebrity Colonialism: Fame, Power and Representation in Colonial and Postcolonial Cultures.
Clarke, R. (ed.). Newcastle:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
,
p. 225-38.
13 p.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter
Popular Culture
Duncan, D. E.
& Papanikolaou, D.
2008
In:
The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory .
1 ed.
Vol. 16
,
p. 302-24.
22 p.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter
Double Time: Facing the Future in Migration’s Past
Duncan, D. E.
2011
In :
California Italian Studies
.
2
,
1
,
p. 1-24.
24 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
"Loving Geographies”: queering straight migration to Italy
Duncan, D. E.
2008
In :
New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film
.
6
,
3
,
p. 167-82.
15 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
Italy’s Postcolonial Cinema and its Histories of Representation
Duncan, D. E.
2008
In :
Italian Studies
.
63
,
2
,
p. 195-211.
16 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article