Maria Elena Indelicato


Biography

Maria Elena Indelicato (she, her, hers) is a CEEC Individual FCT researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra. Besides working on her FCT funded project 'A colonial history of anti-racism education. Anthropology, Race Displacement and Knowledge Transliteration,' Indelicato is also an associate editor of the Journal of Intercultural Studies, co-editor of the section 'Anti-Racism/Mobilisations and Resistance' of the forthcoming online Routledge Encyclopaedia of Race and Racism, and a member of the FCT funded research project Unpacking POPulism: Comparing the Formation of Emotion Narratives and Their Effects on Political Behaviour (UNPOP). Recently, she started and co-conveys the international Trans* Reading Group and The Circle: Critical Race New Research Seminar Series. She is also a member of the American Studies Research Colloquium hosted by the English Department of the University of Münster, where she held a 3 months visiting fellowship in 2023. Indelicato obtained her Ph.D. at the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney, where she also assisted historian Victoria Grieves with the ARC project More than Family History: Race, Gender and the Aboriginal Family in Australian history. Following, she was appointed as lecturer at the School of Communication, NingboTech University, Zhejiang University, where she also acted as international vice-director of the Huallywood Film Research Center. In 2018, Indelicato was awarded with the Endeavour Research Fellowship to undertake the project Natives, Settlers, and Migrants: a Historical Study of Social Relations in Australia. Besides her monograph (2018), Australian New Migrants: International Students' History of Affective Encounters with the Border she has published in feminist, critical race and cultural studies journals such as Outskirts: Feminisms along the Edge, Critical Race and Whiteness Studies e-Journal, Chinese Cinemas, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Paedagogica Historica, Transnational Cinemas, Feminist Review, Postcolonial Studies, and Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Journal of Intercultural Studies, and European Journal of Women Studies, besides several chapters in edited books on settler colonialism, Chinese cinemas, and international education.


Latest Publications

Article in Scientific journal

Indelicato, Maria Elena; Magalhaes Lopes,, Maira (2024), "with Maira Magalhaes Lopes, Understanding Populist Far-right Anti-immigration and Anti-gender Stances beyond the Paradigm of Gender as 'a Symbolic Glue': Giorgia Meloni's Modern Motherhood, neo-Catholicism, and Reproductive Racism", European Journal of Women's Studies, 31, 1

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Book Chapter

Indelicato, Maria Elena (2024), The Dark Side of Migration. Settler Colonial Belonging and the Myths of Italians' Innocence, in Francesco Ricatti and Andonis Piperoglou (org.), Migration Studies on Indigenous Land: Challenges, Reflections, Pathways. IMISCOE Research Series, Springer

Article in Scientific journal

Indelicato, Maria Elena; Charnley, Alex; Richmond, Michael (2023), "Historicising Anti-Identity Politics. An Interview with Alex Charnley and Michael Richmond, Authors of 'Fractured'", Journal of Intercultural Studies, 1-13

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