Dr Nicoletta Mandolini is FCT researcher at Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade (CECS) at Universidade do Minho (Portugal), where she is working on the project Sketch Her Story and Make It Popular: Using Graphic Narratives in Italian and Lusophone Feminist Activism Against Gender Violence (https://www.sketchthatstory.com/). She worked as FWO postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven (Belgium) and she holds a Ph.D. from University College Cork (Ireland). Funded by the Irish Research Council, her doctorate project resulted in the monograph Representations of Lethal Gender-Based Violence in Italy Between Journalism and Literature: Femminicidio Narratives (Routledge, 2021). Among other articles on sexist abuse in contemporary literature and media, she co-edited the volume Representing Gender-Based Violence: Global Perspectives (Palgrave, 2023). She is an active member of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (CASiLaC) research cluster on violence, conflict and gender, that she co-convened from 2016 until 2019. She is founding member of Studying’n’Investigating Fumetti (SnIF). She co-convenes the working group Autoras, Investigadoras y Editoras de Cómic as part of the Cost Action project iCOn-MICs.
Contact: Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal.
