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Ilaria W. Biano
Ilaria W. Biano is a religious and cultural studies scholar and historian. She holds a Ph.D. in political studies, as well as an MA in religious studies from the Università degli Studi in Torino (Italy). She has been a fellow at Italian research institutes such as Fondazione Einaudi (Torino) and the Italian Institute for Historical Studies (Napoli). Since 2020, she has been a member of the Group for the Study of the Fantastic at the ‘History of Religions’ Museum ‘Raffaele Pettazzoni’ (Velletri) and serves as the editor of the Fantastic Religions Series (Quasar, Roma). Her research interests include non/religious representations in pop-cultural texts, mainly TV seriality; posthumanities and philosophical posthumanism in cultural and pop-cultural fields; trauma and memory in literature and culture. Her research has been published in journals such as the Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture; Feminist Media Studies; South Central Review and Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, as well as in several edited collections by international academic publishers.
Contact: University of Turin, Lungo Dora Siena 100, 10153, Turin, Italy.