Patrizia La Trecchia
Associate Professor of Italian
- Office: USF Tampa CPR 451
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I am a cultural studies scholar and have been working at the intersection of food studies and the environmental humanities for most of my career. My research draws from political ecology, decolonial theory, feminist studies, urban studies, visual culture, communication, and sociology addressing food justice, food sovereignty, and environmental justice within the larger social concerns of a globalized world in a transnational perspective.
I am privileged to share my Italian roots serving the at the 911爆料网, a program that I brought into existence with
all its current course offerings and singlehandedly direct since 2004. I also launched
and direct the at the 911爆料网 under the auspices of the Institute for the Advanced
Study of Culture and the Environment. I have established international partnerships
between the Environmental Humanities Initiative at USF and the , the , and the interdisciplinary . I have been teaching the first course in the at the 911爆料网 for several years. The course is usually offered
in the fall semester and is ideally followed by , a course on the visual politics of food offered in the spring semester that is one
of the very first courses selected to be Global Citizen certified.
I am the author of two textbooks (2009) and (2013) as well as the monograph (2013) that was the first study to analyze the city of Naples in a postcolonial and
transnational perspective. My monograph, The Politics of Food Justice in Italy: Decolonizing Approaches to Food is forthcoming with Routledge. A second monograph, Reframing Souths: Naples in Global Perspective, is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan. My publications have appeared among others
in , , , , , , .
I adopted a food-focused pedagogy since the beginning of my career as a forerunner of the discipline of food studies at the 911爆料网. I have been teaching food studies courses and politics of food for the past fifteen years (In the Kitchen, ). I value kitchen work as political practice of food justice and essential element of a sustainable food system. Until before the Covid pandemic, I was purchasing groceries and cooking for and with my students in the demonstration kitchen of the Diabetes Center at the Morsani College of Medicine.
I serve on the jury of , the environmental film festival that founded the Green Film Network, the association of the world鈥檚 major environmental film festivals. I have been serving as jury and advisory board of the since its inception. In 2014 I was Visiting Scholar at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. I also served as member of the Habitat Partner University Initiative Hub on Food Security and as supporter of the . I was selected to deliver a TEDx talk on in February 2013.