Overview
Matilde Veglia holds a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Bologna (Italy), where she graduated with a thesis in bioethics: La Dialettica dei Sessi di Shulamith Firestone. La rivoluzione tecnologica e l'utopia androgina nel dibattito femminista contemporaneo. She received her Master’s degree in Ethnic and Migration Studies from Linköpings Universitet (Sweden). Her MA thesis, Wandering Through Intellectual Ashes: National Identity and the Southern Question in Postwar Marxist Italian Film. A Postcolonial Visual Ontology, was developed as an explorative theoretical essay on neorealist cinema and its relationship with subsequent constructions of Italian identity, collective memory, and cartographies of marginality.
Her research focuses on the relationship between aesthetic production, political practices, and cultures of resistance within the Italian context. Her academic interests include articulations of feminist and Marxist theories, critical theory, and postcolonial studies.
For the Italian publisher Add Editore, she co-translated from English: Gracie Mae Bradley and Luke De Noronha, Contro i confini (Turin, 2023).