Giulia Fabbri is a Be-For-ERC Postdoctoral Fellow at Sapienza University of Rome, where in 2020 she completed a Ph.D. in historical-literary and gender studies. Her doctoral research investigated the intersection of the categories of gender and race in Italian colonial and postcolonial visual representations through an intersectional methodology and combining gender studies with critical race theories, postcolonial studies, and visual culture studies. She is currently conducting a research project on the intersection of gender inequality and climate change in Italian climate fiction through an intersectional approach to the Anthropocene. Her research interests include the representations of gender and race in visual culture, the cultural production of Italian women of African descent, the intersection of social inequality and environmental crisis, and the representations of the human/animal relationship from an anti-speciesist and intersectional perspective. She is the author of Sguardi (post)coloniali. Razza, genere e politiche della visualità [(Post)Colonial Gazes. Race, Gender, and the Politics of Visuality] (Ombre Corte, 2021), she has co-edited with Caterina Romeo the special issue Intersectional Italy (Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2022), and has published articles in Italian and international journals.

In her research Giulia Fabbri will analyze the representations of the ecological crisis in Italian and European climate fiction texts. Through an intersectional and transnational approach to the Anthropocene and through the theoretical and methodological framework of the environmental humanities, ecocriticism, and gender studies, Giulia Fabbri will investigate how the intersection between environmental devastation and social inequalities based on gender, race, and class is narrated in different European climate fiction literary and visual productions.