Sabrina CIOLFI

Position
Short-term research fellow
E-mail
sabrina.ciolfi@unive.it
Website
https://www.unive.it/people/sabrina.ciolfi (personal record)
Office
Department of Asian and North African Studies (DSAAM)
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dsaam

Teaching activity current year

Teaching activity previous years

LINGUE, CULTURE E SOCIETÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LT40]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

Activities and research skills

Publication highlights

Giuliano Boccali; Sabrina Ciolfi Tutto è sacro in India , Milano, Edizioni di Maieutica, pp. 147-187 (ISBN 978-88-98918-17-1)
2022, Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/5046437


CIOLFI S Only consideration is a good girl. Uno sguardo sulla società contemporanea indiana attraverso un'analisi degli annunci matrimoniali , Anantaratnaprabhava. Scritti in onore di Giuliano Boccali, Consonanze 11, Milano, Ledizioni - LEDIpublishing, vol. 2, pp. 273-284 (ISBN 978-88-6705-680-4)
2017, Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5045338


CIOLFI S L'India mi ha dato le storie... il Canada la libertà di raccontarle. Intervista a Deepa Mehta in QUADERNI ASIATICI, pp. 127-144 (ISSN 2038-9795)
2016, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5045325


CIOLFI S Food and Fasting: Representing the Traditional Role of Women in Hindi Cinema , A World of Nourishment. Reflections on Food in Indian Culture, Consonanze 3, Milano, Ledizioni - LEDIpublishing, pp. 293-304 (ISBN 978-88-6705-543-2)
2016, Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5045331


CIOLFI S Toru Dutt, 2014, Antiche ballate e leggende dell'Industan. Edizioni ETS, Pisa in PANDANUS, vol. 9, pp. 126-128 (ISSN 1802-7997)
2015, Review in magazine - ARCA card: 10278/5045320


List of publications

Curriculum vitae

Sabrina Ciolfi holds a Degree in Political Science, with a specialisation in Sociology, from the University of Milan, and a PhD in Indological and Tibetological Studies from the University of Turin. She also holds Diplomas in Hindi Language and Indian Culture from I.S.M.E.O. (Institute for the Middle and Far East).

During the a.y. 2023-24, she was an Adjunct Professor of South Asian Cinema and Visual Culture at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. From 1996 to 2015, she delivered several workshops and seminar series on the condition of women in India and on Indian cinema at the University of Milan.

She has served as a Visiting Scholar (2019) and as a Research Assistant (2019-2020) at the CSLS (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies), Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.

She was the Director and Scientific Curator of the Bollywood Film Meeting Rome (Rome, 2012), and she was a Jury Member for the Pakistan International Film Festival (PIFF) in Karachi (2018).

Her research focuses primarily on South Asian cinema and gender studies.

As a Research Assistant, she participated in two field research campaigns in the Kathmandu Valley (Nepal, 2024) and in Ladakh (India, 2026), funded by the Dallapiccola Foundation (UK) and the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art (USA), respectively. These activities are part of a research project led by Dr Chiara Bellini (Principal Investigator) that examines different approaches to restoring sacred images preserved in Buddhist temples and monasteries in the Himalayan regions of Nepal and India.

She is currently a Research Fellow for the project Beyond Exoticism: Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist Art in Italian Museums: Between History, Collecting Practices, and New Museological Approaches, Across Memory and Decoloniality, led by Dr Chiara Bellini (Principal Investigator) and funded by the Italian Buddhist Union (UBI).

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