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
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 PhD in Indological and Tibetological Studies from the University of Turin and a Degree in Political Science with a specialisation in Sociology from the University of Milan.

She was an Adjunct Professor of South Asian Cinema and Visual Culture at Ca' Foscari University of Venice during the a.y. 2023-2024. She has been collaborating with the University of Milan for over twenty years and has served as a Visiting Scholar 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 Roma (Rome, 2012) and a jury member at the Pakistan International Film Festival—PIFF (Karachi, 2018).

Her research primarily focuses on South Asian Cinema and Gender Studies.

Since 2024, her research interests have also expanded to Himalayan and Tibetan Buddhist art, serving as a research assistant for two projects focused on the study of artwork restoration (P.I. Chiara Bellini): in Nepal, funded by the Dalla Piccola Foundation UK (2024), and in Ladakh, funded by the Rubin Museum USA (2026).

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 (P.I. Chiara Bellini), funded by the UBI—Unione Buddhista Italiana.

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