Professor Simone Brioni

Profile

Simone Brioni is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of African Studies and Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University. He specialises in the literary and cinematographic representation and self-representation of migrants, postcolonial theory, 'postcolonial' literatures and cultures with particular emphasis on contemporary Italy. Publications in this area include: The Somali Within (2015), Scrivere di Islam (2020, co-authored with Shirin Ramzanali Fazel), The Horn of Africa and Italy (2018, co-edited with Shimelis Bonsa Gulema), and L'Italia, l'altrove (2022). He has also written the following documentaries: Aulò (2012, with Ribka Sibhatu, directed with Graziano Chiscuzzu and Ermanno Guida), La quarta via (2012, with Kaha Mohamed Aden, directed with Graziano Chiscuzzu and Ermanno Guida), Maka (2023, with Geneviève Makaping, directed by Elia Moutamid), and Oltre i bordi (2023, with Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, directed with Matteo Sandrini).