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Paola Esposito is a Departmental Lecturer at the University of Oxford's School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography. Her research engages visual, multimodal, performance-based approaches in critical medical anthropology with an emphasis on ontological methods. Esposito's work is particularly concerned with the lived body and body-mind relations, exploring themes of learning and transformation through aesthetic and therapeutic practices. She specializes in somatic movement modalities such as butoh dance and investigates the intersections of imagination, spirit mediumship, and globalization. She has undertaken extensive fieldwork in Japanese-transnational dance practices and actively contributes to the field through her teaching of sensory research methods. Furthermore, Esposito has been pivotal in promoting visual medical anthropology and has initiated interdisciplinary collaborations in the arts. Her selected publications include works examining butoh dance as a healing practice and the implications of COVID-19 on anthropological perspectives. She continues to supervise dissertations and teach courses within visual, sensory, and multimodal anthropology.
University of Oxford • Oxford, UK
Lectured in Social Anthropology and visual, material, and museum anthropology.
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology • Oxford, UK
Focused on medical anthropology with specific research on somatic practices and performance.
Department of Politics and International Relations - Higher Level English requirement.