Laura grew up in central Italy, where she received her B.A, from University of Bologna, in Sociology of Culture. She worked in a homeless shelter for three years. She eventually burnt out and moved to New York to pursue her M.A. in Gender and Women' s Studies.
She then continued her studies in Immigration and Urban Sociology and completed her Ph.D. in Visual and Post-colonial Studies at University of Naples in 2007.
She taught at University of Padua Italy, a new curriculum on Gender and Political Participation, and in the U.S. at New York University and City University of New York. She recently joined the the San Francisco Art Institute School of Interdisciplinary Studies.
2011 editor of Gender and Precarity, ScriptaWeb, Naples, Italy.
• 2010 chapter in Educare al Genere, Carocci, Milano edited by Giulia Selmi and Agnese Maria Maio
• 2009-2011 book series editor Condividee, ScriptaWeb & University of Padua.
• Winter 2009, article titled “Female players from margin to centre”, in Digital creativity, Routledge.
• 2009, translator of Forces of Labor by Beverly Silver, for Bruno Mondadori Publising, Milan.
• 2008 editor for a multimedia project (video and book) called Re/Sisters: on women and contemporary global resistance. Morgana Edizioni, Florence.
• 2007, article titled ‘Precarious changes’, Feminist Review, London Palgrave, n.87.
• 2006, ‘Death of a discipline, other imaginary spaces of politics and culture’ essay on death and archives, in Anglistica, vol. 8. 1-2, 2004. pp. 29-48.
• 2006, ‘La prima volta’, essay on gender, new technologies, specifically on videogames and digital media, in edited volume Futura, Rome, Meltemi.
• 2005, editor for an oral history book titled (R) Esistenze: il passaggio della staffetta, Morgana, Firenze. (interviews of women active in the anti-fascist resistance).
• 2003, Final Fantasies, gender identity and videogames, for the Journal Feminist Theory (Sage), vol.12, n.3.
produced two documentaries on Gender and Resistance, and worked with a photographer to the related photo shows.
- Re-sisters of contemporary globalization
http://re-sister.noblogs.org/
-R-esistenze, interviews with anti-fascist women in Italy.See: http://www.newmedialab.cuny.edu/laura/resistances-existences.htm
clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_jAgpt8sxo
- Theories of contemporary Visual Arts
- Postcoloniality, migration and diasporas
- gendered forms of transmission of knowledge
- social theory formal and informal education of women
- urban ethnography, globalization and spatial injustices
- xenophobia in contemporary Europe, discrimination against Roma Gypsies and refugees from the Balkans
- informal labor, gender and precarity in Europe
