Rita MONTICELLI

Rita Monticelli is City Councilor, with responsibility for human rights, interreligious and intercultural dialogue in the city of Bologna.  

A full professor at the University of Bologna, she teaches Gender Studies, Feminist Theories between Difference and Diversity, English Literatures and Literatures in English; Postcolonial Theories and Cultural History. She has published essays, monographic and collective volumes on these topics.  

She has participated in European projects on intercultural women's studies, cultural memory in Europe, the intersection of humanities and sciences, gender and the culture of equality in Europe, and in networks for the promotion of gender equality and inclusion. She was part of the University Equal Opportunities Committee, for which she organised the info-training sector. She has served as the Rector's delegate for university equal opportunities and as a university trustee. She has served on the Academic Senate.  

She participates in European projects, represents the University of Bologna in the SSH Deans and Gender&Diversity groups of the GUILD (European Research-Intensive Universities) European network and is a member of the governing board of EASSH, European Alliance for social sciences and humanities. She is Advisor for the EQUALS EU AAC (Europe's Regional Partnership for Gender Equality in the Digital Age) project.  

She is the coordinator of the GEMMA (gender and women's studies) Master of Excellence program for the University of Bologna and the director of the Centre for Utopian Studies and Research at the University of Bologna.