Curriculum Vitae
Nicoletta Mandolini
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Nicoletta Mandolini
Citation names
- Mandolini, Nicoletta
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 451F-404A-E9ED
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-9137-9380
Email addresses
- nicoletta.mandolini@ics.uminho.pt (Professional)
Websites
- www.sketchthatstory.com (Scholar)
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Arts
- Social Sciences - Media and Communications
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Italian (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | |
| Portuguese | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) |
| Spanish; Castilian | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Intermediate (B1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2022/06/06 - 2022/06/09
Concluded
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Escola de verão conhecimento e prática. Metodologias qualitativas nas ciências sociais (Outros)
Major in Ciências Sociais
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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2014/09 - 2019/07
Concluded
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Arts (Doktor (PhD))
Major in Italian, Gender and Media Studies
University College Cork, Ireland
"Femminicidio Narratives: The Italian Narrative Discourse on Lethal Gender Violence between Journalism and Literature / Il
femminicidio raccontato. Il discorso narrativo sulla violenza letale di genere tra giornalismo e letteratura " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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N/A |
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2013 - 2014
Concluded
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Master di I livello in didattica dell'italiano lingua non materna (Master Universitario)
Major in Teaching Italian as a Foreign/Second Language
Università per Stranieri di Perugia, Italy
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2009 - 2013
Concluded
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Filologia moderna (Laurea Magistrale)
Università degli Studi di Macerata, Italy
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110/110 cum laude |
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2005 - 2009
Concluded
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Lettere Moderne (Laurea)
Major in Italian Literature
Università degli Studi di Macerata, Italy
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110/110 cum laude |
Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2020/10/01 - Current | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
| Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Portugal | ||
| 2019/10/01 - 2020/09/30 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen, Belgium |
| KU Leuven Campus Carolus Antwerpen, Belgium |
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020/10 - Current | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
| Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Portugal | ||
| 2017 - 2023 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | University College Cork, Ireland |
| Master in Women's Studies, Ireland | ||
| 2019/10 - 2020/09 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | KU Leuven Campus Carolus Antwerpen, Belgium |
| 2015/09 - 2019/07 | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | University College Cork, Ireland |
| School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University College Cork, Ireland |
Positions / Appointments
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2024/02 - 2026/02 | Coordinator of the SOPCOM Working Group on Visual Culture | Associação Portuguesa de Ciências da Comunicação, Portugal |
| Associação Portuguesa de Ciências da Comunicação, Portugal | ||
| 2023/01 - 2024/10 | Coordinator of the Working Group Autoras de cómic (WGAS) | iCOn-MICs - EU Cost Action project, France |
| WGAS - iCOn-MICs, France | ||
| 2016/04 - 2019/09 | Convenor of the Research Cluster on Violence, Conflict and Gender | University College Cork, Ireland |
| CASiLaC Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures, Ireland (...) |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2025/01/31 - 2026/07/30 | GENTEEL - Graphic Novels Against Gender Violence
2023.14621.PEX
Principal investigator
Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2021/02 - 2021/08 | Ricerca a fumetti: generi, forme, declinazioni
RICERCA A FUMETTI
Project coordinator
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
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Associazione Internazionale Professori di Italiano (AIPI)
Concluded
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| 2014/09/01 - 2018/08/31 | Femminicidio Narratives. The Italian Narrative Discourse on Lethal Gender Violence between Journalism and Literature
GOIPG/2014/485
PhD Student Fellow
University College Cork, Ireland
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Irish Research Council
Concluded
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| 2016/12/20 - 2017 | Representing Gender-Based Violence: Establishing a Interdisciplinary International Network
REPRESENTGBV
Principal investigator
University College Cork, Ireland
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Irish Research Council
Concluded
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Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2020/10/01 - Current | Sketch Her Story and Make It Popular. Using Graphic Narratives in Lusophone and Italian Feminist Activism against Gender Violence
UIDB/00736/2020
Principal investigator
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2019/10/01 - 2020/09/30 | Sketch That Story and Make It Popular. Using Graphic Narratives in Feminist Activism against Gender Violence
12U6920N
Principal investigator
KU Leuven Campus Carolus Antwerpen, Belgium
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Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen
Cancelled
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Other
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2021/01/01 - Current | iCOn-MICS
Researcher
Université Clermont Auvergne, France
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European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Ongoing
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| 2024/03 - 2026 | CONCILIARE - Confidently Changing Colonial Heritage
101132582
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
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Horizon 2020
Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
| Book |
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| Book chapter |
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| Book review |
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| Edited book |
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| Journal article |
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| Journal issue |
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| Online resource |
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| Preface / Postscript |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2024/07/11 | "Matte" is Better than (but Similar to) Mattel. Percy Bertolini's Bambine Matte and the Politics of Referencing the Mainstream in DIY Culture | KISMIF International Conference 2024
FLUP - Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2023/11/16 | Look at Me. Selfies as a Tool for Gendered Representation in Comics | Congreso Internacionál sobre Cómic
Universidad de Alcalá (Alcalá de Henares, Spain)
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| 2023/07/04 | Comics as Sex Machine. Retracing Italian Comics Soft-Core from the 1970s to the Present | Better Living Through Comics
University of Cambridge (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
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| 2022/12/08 | Entre net e papel: online communities, medium-specificity and multimodality in two autobiographical works by transgender comics artists in Brazil. The cases of Luiza Lemos and Alice Pereira. | El cómic digital (España, Portugal, América Latina)
Université Clermont-Auvergne (Clermont-Ferrand, France)
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| 2022/12/06 | TransComics. Banda desenhada e resistência à simplificação de género | VIII Congresso sobre Culturas
Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
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| 2022/10/28 | Il graphic novel in classe contro la violenza di genere. Una proposta didattica | XXV Congresso AIPI - Raccontare la realtà. Italia ieri e oggi
Università degli studi di Palermo (Palermo, Italy)
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| 2022/07/13 | A Feminist Smash! Instagram Comics Against Gender Violence in Latin America and Italy | Comics Strike Back: Digital Comics, Digital Audiences, Digital Practices
Universiteit Gent (Gent, Belgium)
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| 2022/06/30 | What's the Story? How Hybrid Comics against Gender Violence Rework Narrative | Visual Storytelling. From the Mural to the Digital
Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro)
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| 2022/04/21 | Rethinking the Coming of Age: Transmedial Representation of Youth in Italian Culture (1950s to Present) | SIS Biennal Conference
University of Warwick (Warwick, United Kingdom)
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| 2021/12/15 | Uno sguardo disonesto - L'appropriazione neofascista del discorso sulla violenza di genere. Il caso Norma Cossetto | Us Versus Them: Exploring Transatlantic Practices and Mediations of Fascism(s) and Populism(s) from the Margins
KNIR - Royal Netherlads Institute in Rome (Roma, Italy)
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| 2021/11/11 | Wonder Feminisms. Comics-Based Art-Activism against Gender Violence in Italy | Transnational Italian Comics: A Research Seminar
University of Montpellier (Montpellier, France)
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| 2021/09/15 | The Art of Smearing. How Is Feminist Decolonizing Artivism Received by Italian Newspapers? The Case of Indro Montanelli’s Statue | Activisms in Africa. III International Conference
Universidade de Recife (Recife, Brazil)
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| 2021/04/23 | Re-Appropriating Abjection. Ana Caspão’s Fundo do nada as a Feminist and Macabre Coming of Age |
Universiteit Gent (Gent, Belgium)
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| 2021/02/12 | The Anger That Moves. The Affirmative Dimension of Rage in the Italian Movement Against Gender Violence Lucha y Siesta | GEM - Gender Equality Matters
Dublin City University (Dublin, Ireland)
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| 2020/12/02 | Let's Go Graphic. Gender Violence and the Ethics of Representation in Contemporary Graphic Narratives |
Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
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| 2020/09/11 | Medium Specificity and the Ethics of Representation. Italian Graphic Novels on Gender Violence | Visions of Italy - SIS interim conference
Kent University (Kent, United Kingdom)
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| 2020/01/24 | Transmediality against Transphobia. The Politics of Transsexual Self-Portrait in Fumettibrutti’s Work Between Comics and Photography |
Cardiff University (Cardiff, United Kingdom)
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| 2019/10/25 | Retrieving or Revising? Using Christian and Greek Mythology in Contemporary Italian Literature Against Femicide |
Flinders University (Adelaide, Australia)
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| 2019/06/27 | ‘Il femminicidio sotto inchiesta. La violenza letale di genere tra giornalismo investigativo e reportage narrativo’ |
University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
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| 2018/06/16 | ‘Revising the Feminist Practice of “Partire da sé”: Male-Centred Autofiction and Feminicide in Edoardo Albinati’s La scuola cattolica’ |
Sant'Anna Institute (Sorrento, Italy)
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| 2018/04/06 | ‘Rosa sangue. La retorica dell’orrore tra giornalismo e letteratura sul tema del femminicidio’ |
University of Sussex (Brighton, United Kingdom)
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| 2017/04/30 | ‘Una rivoluzione privata. La de-ri-costruzione della soggettività femminile in Cronache del mal d’amore di Elena Ferrante’ |
Trinity College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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| 2024/10 - Current | A Representatividade e as Representações de Gênero nos manuais escolares de História da Cultura e das Artes: uma análise crítica
Co-supervisor
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Comunicação, Arte e Cultura (Master)
Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Portugal
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| 2023 - 2026 | O cerceamento moral e a vida das mulheres: uma análise sobre divórcio e não maternidade no Brasil a partir da série Coisa
Mais Linda
Supervisor
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Estudos Culturais (PhD)
Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Portugal
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| 2022/05 - 2023/09 | Digital Authoritarianism and Masculinities in Siri's Egypt
Co-supervisor
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Women's Studies (Master)
University College Cork, Ireland
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2024/12/04 - 2024/12/05 | I was part of the organising committee for the XI Jornadas Doutorais. A Ética na Investigação em Ciências Sociais - CECS -
Universidade do Minho (2024/12/04 - 2024/12/05)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Portugal |
| 2024/09/09 - 2024/09/10 | I was head of the organising and scientific committee for the Training School COMICSNeT (Climate, Outreach, Migration, Intersectionality,
New Technologies in/through Comics), funded by the European Union through the COST action project iCOn-MICs (2024/09/09 - 2024/09/10)
Other (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Portugal SnIF - Studyin'n'Investigating Fumetti, Italy iCOn-MICs - EU Cost Action project, France |
| 2024/04/29 - 2024/04/29 | I organised the webinar "Aborto e IVG nas HQs brasileiras: entre jornalismo em quadrinhos e transfiguração ficcional" (Abortion
in Brazilian Comics: Between Graphic Journalism and Fictional Transfiguration". With Amanda Miranda, Helô D'Angelo and Nicoletta
Mandolini (CECS-Universidade do Minho). The event was organised for the COST Action project iCOn-MICs and for the SOPCOM Working
Group on Visual Culture. (2024/04/29 - 2024/04/29)
Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)
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iCOn-MICs - EU Cost Action project, France |
| 2023/11/15 - 2023/11/17 | I organised, with Dr María Márquez López (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos), the panel "Dialogues on Self-Portraiture and Gender
between Comics and other Visual Media", as part of the Congreso Internacional de Investigación sobre Cómic (Universidade de
Alcalá, 15-17 November 2023). (2023/11/15 - 2023/11/17)
Other (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidad de Alcalá, Spain |
| 2023/11/09 - 2023/11/10 | I co-organised the X Jornadas Doutorais (Universidade do Minho, 9-10 November 2023) (2023/11/09 - 2023/11/10)
Congress (Co-organisor)
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Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
| 2023/10 - 2023/10 | I organised, together with Alice Parrinello (University of Oxford) and Alberica Bazzoni (University of Siena), the webinar
Queergraphics, which gathered various Italian comic artists belonging to the LGBTQ community interested in talking about their
work. (2023/10/27 - 2023/10/27)
Symposium (President of the Organising Committee)
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SnIF - Studyin'n'Investigating Fumetti, Italy |
| 2023/03/15 - 2023/03/15 | I organised the webinar "Transfeminismo e transnacionalidade na banda desenhada lusófona. O caso Sapata Press" With Ciço Silveira
(Sapata Press) and Nicoletta Mandolini (CECS - Universidade do Minho) (2023/03/15 - 2023/03/15)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Portugal Université Clermont Auvergne, France |
| 2021/12/17 - 2022/12/17 | I co-organised, with colleagues from SnIF - Studying'n'Investigating Fumetti, the webinar "Comics as a Research Practice",
by Giada Peterle (University of Padova) (2022/12/17 - 2022/12/17)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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SnIF - Studyin'n'Investigating Fumetti, Italy |
| 2022/12/05 - 2022/12/07 | I co-organised the VII Congresso Internacional sobre Culturas (Universidade do Minho, 5-7 December 2022). (2022/12/05 - 2022/12/07)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
| 2022/01/01 - 2022/10/29 | Organization, with SnIF, of the panel For real: il fumetto italiano tra realtà e realismo, which was part of the xxv Congresso
Aipi (Università degli Studi di Palermo) (2022/10/27 - 2022/10/29)
Congress (Member of the Scientific Committee)
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Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy |
| 2022/10/06 - 2022/10/06 | I organised the seminar "Humans of the Anthropocene: comics and the representation of humankind in a geologically transformed
planet", by Hugo Almeida (NOVA - Universidade de Lisboa). Event partners included CECS, CEHUM and SnIF. It was part of a series
of seminars of the Seminário permanente de Ciência com e para a Sociedade (2022/10/06 - 2022/10/06)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Universidade do Minho, Portugal SnIF - Studyin'n'Investigating Fumetti, Italy |
| 2021/10/11 - 2022/07/13 | I co-organised, with Giorgio Busi-Rizzi (University of Gent) and Lorenzo Di Paola (University Chieti-Pescara), the International
Conference "Comics Strike Back. Digital Comics, Digital Audiences, Digital Practices" (2022/07/11 - 2022/07/13)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universiteit Gent, Belgium |
| 2022/03/30 - 2022/07 | Encontros de investigadores em comunicação e diversidade (Seminário Permanente em Comunicação e Diversidade - CECS) (2022/03/30)
Meeting (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
| 2022/05/26 - 2022/05/26 | I co-organised, with colleagues from SnIF - Studying'n'Investigating Fumetti, the presentation "(Des)montando el libro. Del
cómic multilineal al cómic objeto", by Enrique Del Rey Cabero (University of Alcalá) (2022/05/26)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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SnIF - Studyin'n'Investigating Fumetti, Italy |
| 2022/02/28 - 2022/02/28 | Comics & Science. I saggi a fumetti di Matteo Farinella (2022/02/28 - 2022/02/28)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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SnIF - Studyin'n'Investigating Fumetti, Italy |
| 2021/11/23 - 2021/11/23 | I co-organised, with colleagues from SnIF - Studying'n'Investigating Fumetti, the webinar "Il fumetto digitale", with Lorenzo
Di Paola and Giorgio Busi Rizzi (2021/11/23 - 2021/11/23)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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| 2021/10/28 - 2021/10/28 | I organised, with colleagues from SnIF - Studying'n'Investigating Fumetti, the Reading Session "Gruppo di lettura. Fumetti
e DH" (2021/10/28 - 2021/10/28)
Meeting (President of the Organising Committee)
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SnIF - Studyin'n'Investigating Fumetti, Italy |
| 2021/01 - 2021/08 | AIPI Summer School Ricerca a Fumetti: Generi, Forme, Declinazioni (2021/07/12 - 2021/07/15)
Other (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universiteit Gent, Belgium |
| 2021/04/14 - 2021/04/14 | I organised the webinar "Attacks against Women. From the Web to the Physical World", with Dr Annalisa Verza (Università di
Bologna) (2021/04/14 - 2021/04/14)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Universidade do Minho, Portugal University College Cork, Ireland |
| 2019/12/06 - 2019/12/06 | I co-organised, together with Dr Giovanni Pietro Vitali, the roundtable Elena Ferrante, Authorship and Style. A Conversation
between Digital Humanities and Literary Criticism (keynote speakers Prof Maciej Eder and Dr Olivia Santovetti) (UCC 06/12/2019).
(2019/12/06 - 2019/12/06)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
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University College Cork, Ireland |
| 2019/09/20 - 2019/09/20 | I organised the workshop Sexual Violence(s): Against and Within the LGBTQ+ Community (UCC, 20/09/2019). (2019/09/20 - 2019/09/20)
Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)
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University College Cork, Ireland Research Cluster Violence, Conflict and Gender, Ireland |
| 2019/05/14 - 2019/05/14 | I co-organised, together with Dr David Bowe, the panel Gender: Authorship and Reception (keynote speaker Dr Ursula Fanning)
for the event Italian Studies, Theory and Practice: an ECR Workshop (UCC, 14/05/2019). (2019/05/14 - 2019/05/14)
Congress (Co-organisor)
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University College Cork, Ireland |
| 2019/04/11 - 2019/04/11 | I co-organised, together with Prof Nuala Finnegan, the workshop Sexual Violence(s): Between Past and Present (UCC, 11/04/2019). (2019/04/11 - 2019/04/11)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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University College Cork, Ireland Research Cluster Violence, Conflict and Gender, Ireland |
| 2017/05/22 - 2017/05/23 | I organised the workshop Representing Gender-Based Violence. Establishing an Interdisciplinary International Network (UCC,
22-23/05/2017), funded by the Irish Research Council New Foundations 2016 Scheme. (2017/05/22 - 2017/05/23)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
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University College Cork, Ireland Research Cluster Violence, Conflict and Gender, Ireland |
| 2016/02/27 - 2016/02/27 | I was head of the organising committee of the IX Graduate Conference in Italian Studies (UCC, 27/02/2016). (2016/02/27 - 2016/02/27)
Congress (Co-organisor)
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University College Cork, Ireland |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2024/10/28 - 2024/10/28 | I participated as invited speaker in the webinar series Womb Wor(l)ds: Transcultural Echoes on Reproductive Justice - The
Right Not to Have a Child
Symposium
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Womb Wor(l)ds
ILCS - Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of London, United Kingdom
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| 2024/06/14 - 2024/06/14 | I was invited to participate as speaker in the roundtable Facing the Future: The Evolving Challenges of the Comics, within
the conference Comics in Contemporary Society: Challenges and Opportunities.
Conference
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Masarykova univerzita Ústav filmu a audiovizuální kultury, Czech Republic
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| 2024/05/22 - 2024/05/22 | I was invited to give a seminar on Social Research and Graphic Narratives at IRPPS - CNR (Rome, Italy)
Seminar
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La ricerca sociale e le graphic narratives: approcci metodologici a partire da un'analisi sulla violenza di genere
CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
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| 2024/05/07 - 2024/05/08 | I participated as a trainer in the Training School Comics Creation and Civic Society
Other
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Comics Creation and Civic Society
The University of Newcastle School of Humanities and Social Science, Australia
iCOn-MICs - EU Cost Action project, France |
| 2024/04/24 - 2024/04/24 | I participated as invited speaker in the roundtable on feminist publishing in comics (Mesa redonda iCOn-MICs dedicada a la
edición feminista) in the Primer Congreso Internacional sobre Genealogías Feministas del Cómic (Universidad Complutense, Madrid)
Conference
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, Spain
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| 2024/03/10 - 2024/03/10 | I chaired the session "Yes all women VS Not all men", on comics and gender-based violence at the BookPride (Milan 8-10 March
2024)
Other
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Book Pride 2024
Superstudio Maxi, Italy
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| 2023/10/05 - 2023/10/05 | Participation as invited speaker in the event I mestieri del fumetto, organised by SnIF and Biblioteca Internazionale Ilaria
Alpi (Parma, 05/10/2023).
Symposium
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I mestieri del fumetto
Biblioteca Ilaria Alpi, Italy
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| 2023/09 - 2023/09 | I was invited to give a workshop on feminist subverting in the context of the Acampamento Feminista organised by the feminist
collective Feminismos Sobre Rodas
Workshop
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II Acampamento Feminista
Feminismos Sobre Rodas, Portugal
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| 2023/06/13 - 2023/06/15 | Participation as invited speaker in the roundtable for the event Building a Transfeminist Coalition against Gender Violence
(University College Cork 13-15 June 2023).
Symposium
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Building a Transfeminist Coalition against Gender Violence
University College Cork, Ireland
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| 2023/03/13 - 2023/03/13 | Participation as invited speaker of the Representing Gender-Based Violence. Global Perspectives (Edited by Caroline Williamson
Sinalo and Nicoletta Mandolini) - Book Launch
Other
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School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University College Cork, Ireland
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| 2022/12/12 - 2022/12/12 | I participated as invited speaker in the event Fumetti underground tra ricerca e festival mainstream with the talk "From Brazil
with Love. Contaminazioni transnazionali nel fumetto (trans)femminista portoghese: il caso Sapata Press"
Symposium
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Fumetti underground tra ricerca e festival mainstream
Biblioteca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute, Italy
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| 2022/11/17 - 2022/11/17 | I participated as invited speakers in the event series GAPS, organised by the Escola de Letras, Artes e Ciências Humanas (ELACH)
at Universidade do Minho. My talk was titled "Draw Like a Girl. Mapping Entanglements of Comics Art and Activism in the Italian
Fight against Gender Violence"
Seminar
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Seminários GAPS
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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| 2022/11/15 - 2022/11/15 | I was the invited speaker for the event Draw like a Girl. Mapping Entanglements of Comics Art and Activism in the Italian
Fight against Gender Violence, seminar organised by Theleme, FLUL, University of Lisbon (Lisbon, 15/11/2022).
Seminar
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Seminários Theleme - Interartes, Intermedia
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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| 2022/11 - 2022/11 | Participation as invited speaker in the series of talks ApertaMente, for secondary school students of the Istituto Einaudi
of Ferrara (Italy). My talk was titled ‘Violenza di genere. Che cos’è e perché è importante come ne parliamo?’.
Seminar
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ApertaMente
IIS Luigi Einaudi Ferrara, Italy
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| 2022/10/20 - 2022/10/20 | I participated as invited speaker in the Writing Transnational Girlhood Series, organised by the Centre for the Study of Contemporary
Women’s Writing, ILCS. My talk was titled ‘New Cover Girls. Feminism, Girlhood and the Graphic Novel’ (London, 20/10/2022).
Seminar
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Writing Transnational Girlhood Series
School of Advanced Study Institute of Languages Cultures and Societies, United Kingdom
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| 2022/05/19 - 2022/05/20 | The event aimed at gathering researchers who are participating in the COST action iCOn-MICs, which is dedicated to the study
and promotion of comics and graphic narratives produced in the Iberoamerican area.
Meeting
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iCOn-MICs Meeting
Université Clermont Auvergne, France
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| 2022/05/06 - 2022/05/06 | I was invited to present my monograph at University College Cork
Other
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Representations of Lethal Gender-Based Violence in Italy. Book Launch
University College Cork, Ireland
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| 2022/02/16 - 2022/02/16 | Che genere di fumetto - Fumetto e Gender Studies
Seminar
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Online Seminar for SnIF (Studying'n'Investigating Fumetti)
SnIF - Studyin'n'Investigating Fumetti, Italy
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| 2021/11/30 - 2021/11/30 | I participated in the festival La violenza illustrata, a festival organised by the local women shelter in Bologna, to launch
my book Representations of Lethal Gender-Based Violence in Italy
Festival
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Festival La violenza illustrata
Casa delle donne per non subire violenza , Italy
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| 2021/11/10 - 2021/11/10 | With Giorgio Busi Rizzi, I was invited to give a talk in the context of the Research Seminar for Prospettive sul fumetto italiano
organised by the Journal Simultanea, in collaboration with SnIF – Studying’n’Investigating Fumetti (Online, 10/11/2021). Our
talk was titled ‘What Is Love? Precarious Lives, Precarious Loves in Italian Women Graphic Novelists’
Symposium
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Simultanea, United States
SnIF - Studyin'n'Investigating Fumetti, Italy |
| 2021/07/12 - 2021/07/12 | ‘Fumettibrutti dialoga con Nicoletta Mandolini’ – Interview with the author organised during the AIPI Summer School Ricerca
a fumetti
Other
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AIPI Summer School Ricerca a fumetti: generi, forme, declinazioni
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
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| 2021/01/14 - 2021/01/14 | I was invited to give a talk in the context of the Conversazioni series, organised by the team of the IRC funded Euronews
Project. My talk was titled "The Qualities of Qualitative Research in Discourse Analysis. Hybrid Journalism as a Case Study"
Seminar
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Conversazioni - Euronews Project
University College Cork, Ireland
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| 2020/11/13 - 2020/11/13 | I was invited to give a seminar on "Ultratexts Beyond Gender Binarisms" as part of the Law/Gender/Body/Text project at University
College Cork
Seminar
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University College Cork, Ireland
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Jury of academic degree
| Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2025/01/31 | Bruxas, elfas e feiticeiras: As representações femininas no cinema de fantasia.
(Thesis) Arguer
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Ana Catarina Bessa Rodrigues (PhD)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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| 2024/12/09 | Corpos Negros e Práticas Artísticas na Cidade do Porto: Política e Arte no Trabalho de Melissa Rodrigues e Dori Nigro
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Lucas Reis Velho (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
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| 2023/10 | I was part of the committee for the evaluation of Khadijha Bracken's Masters Degree "Digital Authoritarianism and Masculinities
in Siri's Egypt".
Thesis Member
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Khadijha Bracken (Master)
University College Cork, Ireland
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| 2019/05 | I was part of the committee for the evaluation of Doris Murphy's Masters Thesis "Repealed the 8th: What Motivated Activists
to Get Involved in the Campaign, How Did They Sustain their Activism, and How Did They Experienced the Aftermath". I acted
as second reader within the committee.
(Thesis) Arguer
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Doris Murphy (Master)
University College Cork, Ireland
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Ad Hoc journal article review
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/01 - 2025/02 | Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies | Taylor & Francis |
| 2024/07 - 2024/09 | Gender-based Violence in Artistic and Cultural Education and Work | Open Book Publishers |
| 2024/07/30 - 2024/08/31 | Metamorphoses in comics and Graphic Novel of the Iberian Cultural Area: new trends, emerging industrial models, current sociocultural perception | |
| 2024/04 - 2024/06 | Problemi dell'informazione (0390-5195) | Il Mulino |
| 2024/03 - 2024/05 | Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series | University Press of Mississippi |
| 2024/03 - 2024/04 | Comunicação e sociedade | CECS - Universidade do Minho |
| 2024/02 - 2024/04 | Funes. Journal of Narratives and Social Sciences (2532-6732) | Università di Napoli |
| 2024 - 2024 | Vista ( 2184-1284) | CECS - Universidade do Minho |
| 2023/12 - 2023/12 | Italian Studies (0075-1634) | Taylor & Francis |
| 2023 - 2023 | Revista Lusófona de Estudos Culturais (2184-0458) | CECS - Universidade do Minho |
| 2022/09 - 2022/09 | Unakoine (2724-4261) | Mimesis |
| 2022/01/31 - 2022/02/06 | Discourse Processes (0163-853X) | Taylor and Francis |
| 2021/12/06 - 2021/12/27 | Heliyon (2405-8440) | Cell Press |
| 2021/10/27 - 2021/11/16 | Routledge - Advances in Comics Studies Book Series | Taylor and Francis |
| 2020/09/29 - 2020/10/30 | Problemi dell'informazione (973-817X) | Il Mulino |
Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 - Current | SOPCOM | Member |
| 2022 - Current | The Italian Girlhood Studies Research Network | Member |
| 2021/01/01 - Current | SnIF - Studyin'n'Investigating Fumetti | Founding Member |
| 2021 - 2023 | AIPI - Associazione Professori di Italiano |
Committee member
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/01 - Current | Member of the Management Committee for the European Cost Action Project iCOn-MICs
Member
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Université Clermont Auvergne Département d¿Espagnol, France |
| 2022 - Current | Member of the organising committee of the Seminário Permanente em Comunicação e Diversidade
Member
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Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Portugal |
| 2024/07/03 - 2024/07/05 | Member of the International Committee for the Unicomic. Teaching with Comics Conference (University of Alicante)
Member
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Universitat d'Alacant, Spain |
| 2023/09/01 - 2024/04/24 | Member of the scientific committee for the I Congreso Internacional sobre Genealogías Feministas en el Cómic
Member
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, Spain |
| 2023 - 2024 | I am member of the scientific committee for the edited volume Metamorphoses in Comics and Graphic Novels in the Iberian Cultural
Area: New Trends, Emerging Industrial Modes, Current Sociocultural Perception (forthcoming).
Member
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| 2023/11/09 - 2023/11/10 | Member of the organising and scientific committee for the X Jornadas Doutorais at CECS - Universidade do Minho
Member
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Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
| 2023/07/03 - 2023/07/05 | I was member of the organising committee for the Training School El cómic de/para la investigación: teoría e práctice (Universidad
de Granada, 3-5 July 2023)
Member
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Universidad de Granada, Spain |
| 2022/09/01 - 2022/12/08 | Member of the scientific and organizing committee for the VIII Congresso sobre Culturas organised by CECS - Universidade do
Minho
Member
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Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
| 2022/07 - 2022/07 | Member of the scientific and organising committee for the international conference Comics Strike Back. Digital Comics, Digital
Audiences, Digital Practices
Member
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Universiteit Gent Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte, Belgium |
Consulting
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/04/28 - 2023/04/28 | I provided professional training on gender inclusivity and gender inclusive communication within the tech company Subvisual Group (Braga, Portugal) | Supbisual Group, Portugal |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/07/12 - 2021/07/15 | Fumetto e Gender Studies | Summer School Ricerca a Fumetti | Universiteit Gent Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte, Belgium |
| 2018 - 2019 | Advanced Italian Language | Advanced Italian Language (Bachelor) | University College Cork, Ireland |
| 2017/10 - 2018/12 | Twentieth Century Italian Women Writers | Arts - Italian (Bachelor) | University College Cork, Ireland |
| 2017 - 2017 | Introduction to Written and Spoken Italian | (Bachelor) | University College Cork, Ireland |
Evaluation committee
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/07/27 - 2024/09/30 | I was part of the jury that selected a postdoctoral candidate for working with the CECS - Minho team at the Horizon Europe
Project CONCILIARE - Confidently Changing Colonial Heritage
Member
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Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Portugal | Horizon 2020 |
| 2024/05 - 2024/07 | I was part of the jury that selected a PhD candidate for working with the CECS - Minho team at the Horizon Europe Project
CONCILIARE - Confidently Changing Colonial Heritage
Member
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Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Portugal | Horizon 2020 |
Interview (tv / radio show)
| Program | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021/10/29 - Current | XENA - Esplorazioni femminista - Solo se ti rende felice Talk | Gender Literacy and Gender Violence |
| 2024/03/19 - 2024/03/19 | Think Change Podcast | What will it take to end femicide? |
| 2024/02/15 - 2024/02/15 | Ricercati | Che cos'è l'artivismo? |
Other jury / evaluation
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/10 - 2024/12/05 | I was part of the jury for the "Premio Impacto" (Impact Prize), a prize for doctoral students and early career researchers which was awarded during the XI Jornadas Doutorais at CECS, Universidade do Minho | Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Portugal |
| 2024/07/22 - 2024/07/22 | I was part of the jury for the evaluation of the "projeto de investigação em estudos culturais" (research project in Cultural Studies) of Lívia Braga, candidate within the Cultural Studies doctoral programme of Universidade do Minho. I participated in the jury as supervisor of the candidate's project. | Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Portugal |
| 2023/10/04 - 2023/11/10 | I was part of the jury for the "Premio Impacto" (Impact Prize), a prize for doctoral students and early career researchers which was awarded during the X Jornadas Doutorais at CECS, Universidade do Minho | Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Portugal |