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Leonora Masini

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Leonora Masini

Postdoctoral Researcher

 https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8494-4027
20152026

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Biography

Leonora Masini was awarded a doctoral degree from Brown University in 2022, with a thesis entitled “To Educate is to Civilize: Educational Campaigns through Cinema in British and Italian Colonial Rules (1910-1945).” From August 2022 to June 2024, she served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Slavery and Public Humanities at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University. The Brown Office of Postdoctoral Affairs awarded her the 2024 Postdoctoral Excellence Award for Teaching and Research. She is currently working as a Research Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow in the Italian Department at University College Cork.

Research Interests

My combined focus on education, postcoloniality, internationality, and interdisciplinarity allows me to produce interdisciplinary research of interest to different disciplines; for instance, I have published my work in journals specialized in Italian Studies, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Film Studies, Media Studies, Education, and Comparative Critical Studies.

Teaching Activities

Italian language, culture, and literature; cinema and media history; transmedia storytelling

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 4 - Quality Education
    SDG 4 Quality Education

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  • 1 Publication peer-review
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