{"id":168,"date":"2013-12-15T15:34:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T15:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/luigighirri\/?p=168"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:20:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:20:54","slug":"about-me-oliver-brett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/luigighirri\/2013\/12\/15\/about-me-oliver-brett\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me &#8211; Oliver Brett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/luigighirri\/files\/2013\/12\/about-me-photo2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-176\" src=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/luigighirri\/files\/2013\/12\/about-me-photo2.jpg\" alt=\"about me photo2\" width=\"153\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Oliver Brett<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; I am project assistant for &#8216;Viewing and writing landscape: Luigi Ghirri and his legacy in photography and literature&#8217;. I completed my undergraduate studies in French and Italian at the University of Leicester from where I have\u00a0just been awarded a PhD for my thesis on &#8216;The <em>lieu factice<\/em>: Performance, Identity and Place in French and Italian Queer documentary since 2000&#8242;. My interests lie in the use of visual representation in shaping social, political and cultural discourse (particularly through documentary cinema and from\u00a0Queer perspectives). Reflecting upon the work of Ghirri and Celati, I am particularly interested\u00a0in\u00a0the intersection of different cultural formats (cinema, documentary, and literature, for example) and\u00a0drawing attention\u00a0to\u00a0less well-known cultural production in Italy. Having completed my PhD, I now have a little more time for other endeavours\u2014such as Marina and Jacopo&#8217;s fascinating project\u2014and welcome any questions\/enquiries or potential <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">contributions to the blog<\/span>. Please do not hesitate to contact me (in\u00a0Italian, French or English)\u00a0by email on ob49@le.ac.uk. I know Leicester very well and also welcome any questions concerning any practicalities when, and if, attending the conference next year. With best wishes, Oliver. A presto!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver Brett &#8211; I am project assistant for &#8216;Viewing and writing landscape: Luigi Ghirri and his legacy in photography and literature&#8217;. I completed my undergraduate studies in French and Italian at the University of Leicester from where I have\u00a0just been awarded a PhD for my thesis on &#8216;The lieu factice: Performance, Identity and Place in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/luigighirri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/luigighirri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/luigighirri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/luigighirri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/luigighirri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/luigighirri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/luigighirri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/luigighirri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/luigighirri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/luigighirri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/luigighirri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}