Biography
Veronica De Pieri is a Senior Researcher and Adjunct Professor in Japanese Culture and Literature at the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna. She got her Ph.D. in Japanese studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in Contemporary Japanese literature related to post-catastrophe narratives. Her interests have focused on testimonial narrative, trauma studies, and the ethics of memory since 2011, with a comparative perspective (Shoah literature, atomic bombing literature, 3.11 literature). She has also been trained in assessment and intervention in traumatic situations (Master Program). De Pieri is currently an Italian translator for atomic bombing and Fukushima literary testimonies
Publications:
- “Wird irgendetwas mit mir geschehen? Habituation and Unconsciousness from Hannah Arendt’s The Banality of Evil.” In DIVE-IN. An International Journal on Diversity and Inclusion, vol. 3, no. 1, 2023, pp. 7–42.
- “Genbaku Legacy in Post-3.11 Japan: Ōta Yōko and Yoshida Chia.” In Art and Activism in the Nuclear Age, Routledge, May 2023, pp. 198–215.
- “La distopia prossimale de La strana biblioteca di Murakami Haruki in Apocalypse: Distopico Giappone.” In Catalogo NipPop 2022, 2022, pp. 96–99.
- “Itō Seikō’s Mourning Voice(s).” In BUNRON. Studies in Japanese Literature, no. 8, 2021, pp. 59–84.
- “Human Beings after Catastrophe: Poetical Portraits by Primo Levi and Hara Tamiki.” In Narrative Crossing Borders, Dalarna University Publishing, Dalarna, 2021, pp. 99–120.
- “Literary Agency in the Wake of Catastrophe: The Canonization of the Literary Responses to Trauma.” In Ca’ Foscari Annali, Serie Orientale, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, 2019, pp. 657–675.
- “Kintsugi Identities in Post-Catastrophe Japan: The Hibakusha in Post-1954 and Post-2011 Literature.” In Orientalia Parthenopea, Naples, 2018, pp. 211–222.
- “Nostalgia as a Means to Overcome Trauma: The Case of Yoshimoto Banana’s Sweet Hereafter.” In Conference Proceedings of the 4th International Interdisciplinary Memory Conference – Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia, Gdańsk Przymorze Uniwersytet, Gdańsk, 2018, pp. 87–96.
Notable Recognitions:
- PRIN 2022 – Member of the research group “Getting ready for the present: new global dystopian imaginaries and public engagement. Transcultural and transmedial dialogues between Japanese, Latin American, British and Anglo American cultures” (ERC: SH5_2).
- Project Investigator Paola Scrolavezza (LILEC UniBo). The project won the funds with full marks: 100/100.
Reflections on the GHRUP:
“The GHRUP helped in establishing a network of international institutions interested in promoting peace-building education and the prevention of genocides and mass violence.“
