Digital Fissures Bodies, Genders, Technologies

Carlotta Cossutta is a postdoctoral researcher in Political Philosophy at the University of Eastern Piedmont. Publications include: "Transfeminist politics and populist counterattacks in Italy" (European Journal of English Studies), "Maternal relations, feminism and surrogate motherhood in the Italian context (Modern Italy), and Linguistic Traps. Identity and Differences Through Institutions, Law, Politics and the Gender Binary (Routledge, 2018).

Valentina Greco has an MA in Gender Studies and a Ph.D. in Women’s History and Gender Identity. Publications include: L’ago dentro e fuori.’ Il nodo memoria/storia nel caso della deportazione (Genesis. Rivista della Società Italiana delle Storiche), Geography and the ICT: New Technolgies and Geographical Research (Bononia University Press), and In Italia abortire è ancora un diritto a metà (Internazionale).

Arianna Mainardi holds a Ph.D. in Information Society from the Università degli studi di Milano. Publications include: "Young People Between Uncertainty and Agency. An Analysis of the Strategies of Transition to Adulthood in Italy" (Italian Journal of Sociology and Education), "At the Roots of Media Cultures. Social Movements Producing Knowledge About Media as Discriminatory Workspaces" (Information Communication & Society), and "Sexuality and Power in Contemporary Italy: Subjectivities between Gender Norms, Agency and Social Transformation" (Modern Italy).

Stefania Voli holds a Ph.D. in Citizenship, Rights and Gender Equality in Modern and Contemporary History (University of L’Orientale Naples), and a Ph.D. in Applied Sociology and Social Research Methodology (University of Milan–Bicocca). Publications include: "Young People Between Uncertainty and Agency. An Analysis of the Strategies of Transition to Adulthood in Italy"> (Italian Journal of Sociology and Education) and Modificazioni corporee e cittadinanza transgender. Il caso del Movimento Identità Transessuale di Bologna, (doctoral thesis).

Julia Heim is a Lecturer of Foreign Language at the University of Pennsylvania. Their research centers on LGBTQIA+ representation in Italian Media. Together with Sole Anatrone, they have published the edited volumes Queering Italian Media and Spaghetti Sissies Queering Italian Media, as well as numerous journal articles on inclusive practices in the Italian classroom.

Sole Anatrone is an Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Vassar College. Her research focuses on questions of gender and sexuality, race, migration, (post)colonialism and activism in cinema, literature and cultural studies. Together with Julia Heim, she has published the edited volumes Queering Italian Media and Spaghetti Sissies Queering Italian Media, as well as numerous journal articles on inclusive practices in the Italian classroom.