Federica Mazzara is Senior Lecturer in Intercultural Communication at the University of Westminster. Her research interests lie in the interdisciplinary fields of migration studies and cultural studies. She has published widely on the literature of migration in Italy, theories of intermediality, and the visual arts as a form of political resistance. She has also curated art installations on migration, including Nothing is Missing by Mieke Bal, and is currently co-curating the exhibition Sink Without Trace (June-July 2019, P21 Gallery), which focuses on the issue of migrant deaths at sea.

• CONTENTS: Mapping Lampedusa: Spaces of (In)visibility in the Borderscape of Europe – From Bare Lives to Subjects of Power: A Counter-Map of Resistance – Border Aesthetics and Aesthetics of Subversion: Counter-Narratives in Migratory Contexts – Death and Memory after the Journey: Counter-Commemoration in Art.

«Reframing Migration interrogates the iconic status of Lampedusa as a centerpiece of the dominant European politics of migration and asylum. Examining a diverse array of artistic interventions into the asphyxiating discursive and scopic regime that frames the Mediterranean border spectacle of desperation and mass death, Federica Mazzara reveals a refreshing aesthetics of subversion.»(Nicholas De Genova, Professor and Chair, Department of Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Houston)