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Author: Francesca Pierini

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Francesca Pierini, a former postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, is currently an Adjunct Lecturer at University of Basel. Adjunct Assistant Professor of Italian at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University (2011-2015), she was an International Scholar at KU Leuven (2015-16). Forthcoming publications include the articles “Michel Foucault and Edward Said: The Knowledge of Power and the Foundation of Colonial Discourse Analysis” (J.Vrin); “La Fiaba Oscura: Narrating Italy in Sarah Hall’s How to Paint a Dead Man,” in Sarah Hall: Critical Essays (Gylphi Contemporary Writers).
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Education, The Arts & Literature

The Imponderable Bloom: E.M. Forster’s ‘The Machine Stops’ on Isolation, Social Distancing, and Online Lecturing

Francesca Pierini is an Adjunct Lecturer at University of Basel. In this short article, she proposes a reading of The Machine Stops (1909), a sci-fi short story E.M. Forster wrote in 1909, in order to reflect on several specific aspects of the narrative that closely resonate with our most recent experiences in a time of COVID-19 pandemic, from social isolation to distance lecturing.

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Cultural & Area Studies, Education, The Arts & Literature

The Gift of Certainty: What Does it Mean to be Knowledgeable?

Using two excerpts by contemporary authors, Francesca Pierini examines our perception of knowledge, and the ways in which it can both empower and limit a society.

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