Nota biográfica

Maria Elena Indelicato (she, her, hers) is a CEEC FCT researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra. Besides working on her project 'A colonial history of anti-racism education,' Indelicato is a team member of the FCT funded research project UNPOP and a member of the Inter-Thematic Group on Migrations (ITM). With Alana Lentin, she is also co-editing the section 'Anti-Racism/Mobilisations and Resistance' of the online Routledge Encyclopaedia of Race and Racism. Indelicato obtained her Ph.D. in 2014 at the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney, where she also assisted historian Victoria Grieves with the ARC funded project 'More than family history: race, gender and the Aboriginal family in Australian history'. Following, she was appointed as lecturer at the School of Communication, Ningbo Institute of Technology (NIT), Zhejiang University, where she also acted as international vice-director of the Huallywood Film Research Center. In 2018, Indelicato was awarded with the Endeavour Research Fellowship to investigate how migrants contributed to the settler colonial project of replacing indigenous people in Australia. Besides her monograph 'Australian New Migrants: International Students' History of Affective Encounters with the Border (2018),' she has published in feminist, critical race and cultural studies journals such as Outskirts: Feminisms along the Edge, Critical Race and Whiteness Studies e-Journal, Chinese Cinemas, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Paedagogica Historica, Transnational Cinemas, Feminist Review, Postcolonial Studies, and Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies besides several chapters in edited books on settler colonialism, Chinese cinemas, and international education.