Federico Picerni

Federico Picerni is assistant professor of Chinese literature with the University of Bologna. He received his BA and MA from the same university, and then obtained his PhD in Asian Studies from Ca' Foscari University of Venice, in a double degree programme with Heidelberg University. He has also spent periods of fieldwork and language training at Xi'an Jiaotong University and Peking University. His research concerns the relation between cultural production and society, and he has published or presented several papers on the topic. Specifically, he focuses on Chinese workers writers and poets, literary amateurism, (trans)cultural studies. Nello specifico, si occupa di scrittori e poeti operai in Cina, amatorialità letteraria, studi (trans)culturali. His monography, The Aesthetics of Labor: The Social and Textual Practice of Chinese Worker Writers, is forthcoming with Amsterdam University Press.