Cristina Demaria – October 2025

Cristina Demaria is currently the Rector’s delegate for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion of Alma Mater – The University of Bologna. She is Full Professor of Semiotics at DAR – Department of the Arts – where she teaches Gender Studies, Semiotics of Conflict, and Semiotics and Social Sciences. She has worked extensively on cultural and media representations of gender and intersectionality, genres of testimony, post-conflict representations, and the construction and reconstruction of collective and cultural memories. Demaria has authored four monographs and more than hundred articles and book’s chapters, edited and co-edited sixteen books and scientific journals’ special issues; she participated in various national and international research projects, such as SPEME- Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memory in Europe, Argentina, Colombia. She has been a visiting professor in many universities and institutes, such as the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of London, the University of Buenos Aires and the University of Amsterdam – School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture. She is currently working on her upcoming book “Women and Political Violence. Images and Voices of Victims and Perpetrators”, that will be published early next year.