Alessia Mangiavillano
Alessia Mangiavillano is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), where she leads the project SPEAK on storytelling, empowerment and agency among people with migrant backgrounds. Her interdisciplinary approach sits at the intersection of migration, advocacy and the arts, drawing on participatory, creative and story-based research methodologies. She holds a PhD from Coventry University, where she investigated the production of comics as counternarratives to the 'migration crisis' in the Mediterranean. She is a founding member of the international research group on Italian comics SnIF – Studying 'n' Investigating Fumetti.
Alessia will be with us from 12 October 2026 until 12 January 2027.