Leslie Nancy Hernández Nova received her PhD in Contemporary History from the University of Turin where she has been research fellow until 2012.
The use of oral sources has always characterized her work that was initially focused on the reconstruction of collective cultural memory of migrants from Peru to Italy in a gender perspective. Her research has focused on various processes of cultural hybridization, emotional diasporic geographies and memories attached to Europe by migrants from Peru.
Her research is based on the oral-written-visual constellation of memory emerging from interviewees’. Her analysis’ approach to the narrative memories involves Andean cosmographies, personal roots, subjectivity and multiple cultural belongings. She has studied and analysed processes of identity construction through the study of migratory languages, the hybridization of mother and acquired languages, resulting from transcultural migration itineraries.
Her current research is based on the exploration of forms of cultural memory being articulated by diasporic bodies in motion. Her work looks in particular to the migratory processes’ reception involving various generations of Peruvian migrants and artists by using visual and counter mapping narratives, artistic and visual works. In the present stage of her research she is particularly interested in exploring the visual dimension of memory as a dynamic process through which it is possible to identify cultural linkages, belongings, pre-Columbian cosmographies, forms of cultural hybridization and new figurations of the colonial past.
She has edited with Liliana Ellena and Chiara Pagnotta
World Wide Women. Globalizzazione, Generi, Linguaggi (2012). Her work has been published in Italian and Latinoamerican journals and books.
Email:
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Working languages: Italian, English, French
Curriculum Vitae
List of Publications
List of Papers
La trasmissione delle cosmovisioni nelle
migrazioni peruviane attraverso l’Europa: tra arte e tradizione
Presentations and Lectures
April 21,Ventimiglia, Italy
