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Author Biography
Enrica Picarelli
INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR
Enrica Picarelli is an independent researcher, translator, and author of the research blog Afrosartorialism.
She received a PhD in Cultural and Postcolonial Studies of the Anglophone World at “L’Orientale” University of Naples and was a “Michael Ballhaus Fellow” at the Center for Digital Cultures at Leuphana University of Lueneburg and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Comparative Cultures at Lisbon’s University. She has authored book chapters and articles in refereed journals in the fields of television studies, digital media, and fashion studies. She has contributed solicited essays to online magazines including IAM – Intense Art Magazine, Blacks to the Future, and African Digital Art and now writes for the art magazines Something We Africans Got and The Art Momentum. Her current research focuses on fashionability and the African fashion aesthetic on digital media.
Article Citations
MLA: Picarelli, Enrica. “Selly Raby Kane: Surrealist Designer and Social Innovator.” Fashion Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 2019, 1-31. www.fashionstudies.ca/selly-raby-kane/, https://doi.org/10.38055/FS020107.
APA: Picarelli, E. (2019). Selly Raby Kane: Surrealist designer and Social Innovator. Fashion Studies, 2(1), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.38055/FS020107.
Chicago: Picarelli, Enrica. “Selly Raby Kane: Surrealist Designer and Social Innovator.” Fashion Studies 2, no. 1 (2019): 1-31. https://doi.org/10.38055/FS020107.
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