Screening Gender Medicine. Health and the Gendered Body in Recent US-Based Medical Dramas and Dramedies

Rosa Barotsi is lecturer at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and PI of the Next Generation EU-funded research project IMFilm. She recently concluded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action at the Catholic University of Milan with the project CineAF: Women’s Films in Italy (1964-2015) on gender inequality in the Italian film industry. She received her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2014. She has previously held a postdoctoral position at the ICI Berlin Institute of Cultural Inquiry, where she developed a project on Slow cinema and debt. Along with Clio Nicastro and Saima Akhtar, she co-founded the In Front of the Factory research collective in 2016. She is one of the coordinators of the Eurimages-funded joint project T he Purple Meridians. Her research and curatorial work focuses on the intersections between film, gender and work, with an emphasis on Italian and Greek cinema.

Clio Nicastro is a researcher in Philosophy, Cultural Studies, and Film Studies currently affiliated with Bard College Berlin, where she has been adjunct faculty member since 2020. She studied philosophy at the University of Palermo, where she completed her PhD in aesthetics and theory of art. From 2016 to 2018 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the ICI Berlin where she founded the series of conferences, lectures, and screenings In Front of the Factory (with S. Akhtar and R. Barotsi). From 2018 she has been co-curating, together with H. Proctor and N. Hartmann, the event series Spellbound (Diffrakt, Berlin). At ICI she held an additional one-year postdoctoral research position from 2021 to 2022, thanks to a grant offered by the VolkswagenStiftung. She is the author of La Dialettica del Denkraum in Aby Warburg (Palermo University Press, 2022) as well as the co-editor with C. Baldacci and A. Sforzini of the volume Over and Over and Over again. Reenactment Strategies in Contemporary Arts and Theory (ICI Berlin Press, 2022). Since 2022 she is a member of the board of directors of the Harun Farocki Institut.

Roberta Martina Zagarella works at the CNR Interdepartmental Center for Research Ethics and Integrity (Italy). Principal Investigator of the Research Unit for Ethical Assessment in Scientific Research.. She is member of the Scientific Secretariat of the CNR Research Ethics and Integrity Committee, with the additional role of Head of the Scientific Secretariat of the Ethical Clearance Sub-committee. She is also Managing Editor of the scientific journal The Future of Science and Ethics, and Co-director of the Medical Humanities Lab at the Università degli Studi di Palermo. Her research activities focus on research ethics, philosophy of language and argumentation theory with a particular attention to biomedical and bioethical issues.