MARA MATTA

Associate professor


email: mara.matta@uniroma1.it
phone:
building: Complesso Marco Polo


Mara Matta is Assistant Professor of Modern Literatures of the Indian Subcontinent at the Italian Institute of Oriental Studies (ISO) of the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, where she also teaches a class of Hindi language and translation (3rd year). In between 2012-2016, she held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in South Asian Studies at the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’, with a research project on indigenous literary and visual cultures across South Asian borderlands.

She holds a PhD in South and East Asian studies (thesis on the contemporary Tibetan prose theater and the coming up of Tibetan cinema in China and in the diaspora).

She is currently conducting researches among the indigenous people of Bangladesh 'Chittagong Hill Tracts' (CHTs), in particular among the Chakmas and the Rakhine communities living along/across the border with Burma (Myanmar).

Among her main research interests are indigenous literatures and cinemas of South Asia and Tibet; women writings; political and social theatre in South Asia; issues affecting indigenous communities living across borderlands in South Asia; visual and written narratives of Bangladeshi migrants in Italy.

She is a member of the NETPAC (The Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) and of the AMM (Archive of Migrant Memories, Rome).

Research products

11573/1689733 - 2023 - La spudorata speranza di Lilith
Matta, Mara - 02c Prefazione/Postfazione
book: Le femmine e i cani non possono entrare. Diario di una donna che ha lottato per sopravvivere - (9791259961754)

11573/1698148 - 2023 - Shooting Back: Photography and videomaking to confront the silencing of being locked up during the COVID-19 lockdown in the Rohingya Refugee Camps of Bangladesh.
Matta, Mara - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
book: The COVID-19 Pandemic in Asia and Africa Societal Implications, Narratives on Media, Political Issues. - (978-88-9377-299-0)

11573/1689730 - 2021 - The Danse Macabre of Bangladesh. Humayun Azad’s creative interruptions in an Age of Anger
Matta, Mara - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: ANGLISTICA AION AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL (Napoli : Università degli Studi di Napoli "L' Orientale") pp. 91-104 - issn: 2035-8504 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/1689732 - 2021 - Questioni di genere nel «nuovo» cinema migrante
Matta, Mara - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
book: Genere, sesso, migrazione. Riflessi transdisciplinari - (9788865484159)

11573/1572826 - 2021 - The Protic Project. Outcomes from a ICT4D action research in rural Bangladesh
Sarrica, Mauro; Matta, Mara; Stillman, Larry; Denison, Thomas - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
book: Sapienza for International Development Cooperation. Strategies, Projects, Actions - (978-88-9377-184-9)

11573/1478283 - 2020 - Tibetan diaspora cinema: traces of memory, visions of hope
Matta, M - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
book: Resistant hybridities: New narratives of exile Tibet - (978-1-4985-5235-6; 978-1-4985-5236-3)

11573/1074681 - 2020 - Voci di donne fuori dal coro: memoria culturale e storia di genere nel romanzo del Bangladesh
Matta, Mara - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
book: Il romanzo del nuovo millennio - (9788857571324)

11573/1478314 - 2020 - Maternità, inanità, libertà: la "follia" delle madri della nazione bangladese nel documentario Una certa liberazione di Yasmine Kabir.
Matta, Mara - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
book: Madri d'Oriente tra tradizione e dissenso - (9788878017528)

11573/1478328 - 2020 - Diasporic narratives and migrant memories in 'The Teak Almirah' by Indian Jewish author Jael Silliman
Matta, Mara - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: TEXTUS (Roma: Carocci, 2012 Genova : Casa Editrice Tilgher.) pp. 119-142 - issn: 1824-3967 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/1074677 - 2019 - Beyond the mystic line: a diasporic Tibetan cinema of nostalgia
Matta, Mara - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: RIVISTA DEGLI STUDI ORIENTALI (Pisa · Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore -Pisa: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali -Roma: Bardi Editore) pp. 189-206 - issn: 0392-4866 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/1478458 - 2019 - Profiling Tibetan diasporic cinema from a gender perspective.
Matta, Mara - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
book: Wind Horses. Tibetan, Himalayan and Mongolian Studies - (978-88-6719-175-8)

11573/929766 - 2019 - Polyandry, sexuality and the (mis)representation of indigenous women on Indian screens. The film Sonam: The Fortunate One
Matta, Mara - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
book: Media, Indigeneity and Nation in South Asia - (9780429424649)

11573/1074661 - 2018 - Calcutta Blues: mappe sensoriali e percorsi della nostalgia nel dramma Calcutta Kosher di Shelley Silas.
Matta, Mara - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
book: Le metropoli in Asia - ()

11573/1074671 - 2018 - «The Karma of Chicken Curry». Tibetan Masala films and youth narratives of exile
Matta, Mara - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: ANNALI DI CA' FOSCARI. SERIE ORIENTALE (Venezia : Edizioni Ca' Foscari) pp. 289-317 - issn: 2385-3042 - wos: (0) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85062593471 (1)

11573/1190826 - 2018 - L’urlo ferino di Kishwar Naheed
Matta, Mara - 02c Prefazione/Postfazione
book: Poesie Scelte - ()

11573/1022618 - 2017 - Calcutta Kosher and The man with many hats. Recasting the Baghdadi Jews as a ‘new’ minority in contemporary India
Matta, Mara - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: STUDI E MATERIALI DI STORIA DELLE RELIGIONI (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2009- L'Aquila: Japadre) pp. 459-475 - issn: 0393-8417 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/874582 - 2017 - The Novel and the Northeast: indigenous narratives in Indian literatures
Matta, Mara - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
book: Indian Literature and the World : Multilingualism, Translation and the Public Sphere - ()

11573/970754 - 2017 - Nudo di donna: ri(s)coprire la Devi
Matta, Mara - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
book: Le verità del velo - (978-88-6032-427-6)

11573/874562 - 2016 - Through the women's body: staging rebellion in the play Purdah by Ismail Mahomed
Matta, Mara - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: SAMYUKTA (Trivandrum, M/s. Women Initiatives) pp. 109-133 - issn: 2393-8013 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/874581 - 2016 - Multilingualism and indigenous cinema in Northeast India: the case of Kokborok language films
Matta, Mara - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
book: The Multilingual Screen: New Reflections on Cinema and Linguistic Difference - (978-1501302886; 1501302884)

11573/874583 - 2016 - "Chinese Mirch Masala": films, stories and food to rethink the slogan ‘Hindi-Chini Bhai Bhai’ in contemporary times.
Matta, Mara - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
book: Moving across borders in China: interdisciplinary approaches to the study of cultural diversity in marginal areas. - (978-88-548-9850-9)

11573/894495 - 2016 - Why nobody is playing (with) Water? Setting the stage for revolution in Mahasweta Devi's play Jal
Matta, Mara - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: THE JOURNAL OF SOCIAL STUDIES (Dhaka: Centre for Social Studies.) pp. 1-22 - issn: 1012-7844 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/874563 - 2015 - The Khāsi New Wave: addressing indigenous issues from a literary and cinematic perspective
Matta, Mara - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: ANNALI. ISTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO ORIENTALE. ANGLISTICA (- Napoli: Università degli Studi di Napoli “L'Orientale”, 2003 - - Napoli: Istituto universitario orientale, 1979 -2003) pp. 51-67 - issn: 1125-1077 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/874564 - 2015 - Theatre for social change in the Tibetan Diaspora: cultural politics and the daimon of art in Little Lhasa
Matta, Mara - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: CHAOS (Bangladesh: Department of English, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Dhaka: School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Independent University Bangladesh) pp. 64-75 - issn: 2304-3792 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/874565 - 2015 - ‘Womanizing’ nature in India: a few considerations on the politics of representation of tribal women in Bengali fiction
Matta, Mara - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: RIVISTA DEGLI STUDI ORIENTALI (Pisa · Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore -Pisa: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali -Roma: Bardi Editore) pp. 181-196 - issn: 0392-4866 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/874579 - 2015 - Nepal. A theatre for better reasons.
Matta, Mara - 03a Saggio, Trattato Scientifico

11573/874580 - 2015 - From ‘madwoman in the attic’ to ‘queer stranger in the closet’: sexuality and migration at the crossroads
Matta, Mara - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
book: Dislocating Globality Deterritorialization, Difference and Resistance - (9789004304055; 9789004304048)

11573/874569 - 2014 - Laughter across borders: the case of the Bollywood film Tere Bin Laden.
Matta, Mara - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
book: Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema. - (9780814339381)

11573/874571 - 2014 - Searching for a (new) cinematic language in Tibet.
Matta, Mara - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: Tibet tra mito e realtà (Firenze)
book: Tibet between myth and reality. - (9788822262929)

11573/874567 - 2014 - Il “glossario di sopravvivenza” di un migrante dal Bangladesh.
Matta, Mara; Ghosh, Sanjay - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
book: Bibbia e Corano a Lampedusa. Il lamento e la lode. Liturgie migranti. - (9788835037453)

11573/874566 - 2013 - Mille romanzi, mille letterature.
Matta, Mara - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: EAST (Milano: Baldini Castoldi Dalai) pp. 84-85 - issn: 1826-5073 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/874572 - 2012 - Scena Tibet
Matta, Mara - 03a Saggio, Trattato Scientifico
book: Scena Tibet - (9788896551233)

11573/874575 - 2010 - Buddhismo e scienza. Storia di un amore.
Matta, Mara - 03e Traduzione di libro
book: Buddhismo e scienza : storia di un amore - Lopez Donald S. (9788834015766)

11573/874576 - 2010 - Oltre la consapevolezza in parole semplici
Matta, Mara - 03e Traduzione di libro
book: Oltre la consapevolezza in parole semplici : una guida introduttiva agli stati meditativi profondi - Gunaratana, Henepola (9788834011652)

11573/874570 - 2009 - Liminal gazes: reflections on Tibetan diasporic cinema
Matta, Mara - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: Tibetan Arts in Transition. A Journey through Theatre, Cinema and Painting. (Roma, Napoli)
book: Tibetan Arts in Transition. A Journey through Theatre, Cinema and Painting. - (978-88-906085-3-7)

11573/874573 - 2008 - Rebel with a cause: debunking the mythical mystical Tibet
Matta, Mara - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: IIAS NEWSLETTER (Leiden : International Institute for Asian Studies) pp. 32-32 - issn: 0929-8738 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/874574 - 2008 - Le arti tibetane in transizione
Matta, Mara; Donati, Valeria - 06a Curatela

11573/874584 - 2006 - Autori tibetani
Matta, Mara - 02d Voce di Enciclopedia/Dizionario
book: Dizionario Bompiani degli Autori - ()

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