Maria Luisa DI MARTINO

Dr. Maria Luisa Di Martino is a Research Fellow focused on the project MIGRAFEM at the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice.  She is a former EU Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, with the project "REWRITE: Rewriting Migrants' Identities through Women’s Literature", at the same department. She was Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (OCLW), at the Wolfson College and the English Faculty and World's Literature, University of Oxford. Visiting Scholar at the Instituto de Filosofía del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) - Research Group on Politics and Gender at the Human and Social Sciences Centre in Spain.

REWRITE: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101027193

ReWrite web: https://pric.unive.it/projects/rewrite/home

She obtained her PhD with international Doctorate mention in Human Rights: ethical, social and political challenges in a changing world at the University of Deusto (Spain), with a predoctoral fellowship in “Inclusion and Diversity”. She has been awarded the EU's "Erasmus Mundus" PhD Visiting fellowship (2016) at the “Instituto de Fundamentos y Métodos en Psicología”, within the research group: “Movyt, Movilidad humana, trabajo y derechos humanos” – Faculty of Psychology and Faculty of Social Sciences, UdelaR – Universidad de la República (Uruguay) and PhD Visiting at the Population Division (ECLAC) – Economic Commission for Latin America and Caribbean (Chile). 

Her research interests are focused on postcolonial and globalisation studies. She obtained an MPhil in Globalisation Studies and an M.A. in International Cooperation, Peace and Development from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU Spain). She obtained a BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures (Latin-American and English-language countries), approached from a literary, philological and socio-political perspective, at the Istituto Universitario L'Orientale di Napoli. 

She attended several international research trainings, seminars, conferences, especially linked to the IMISCOE "Gender and Skilled Migration" working group. She participates as an expert in the IMISCOE's Migration Research Hub. She is also part of the Roster of the Migration Network Hub, established by the UN Network on Migration (UNNM) for the assessment of the Global Combat on Migration (GCM)'s objectives in international country's plans and programmes. Since 2021 she is member of the Editorial Board of Humanities and Social Sciences Journal, Science Publishing Group INC. (NY, USA).

With ten years of international work experience in project and programmes management in social intervention and inclusion of marginalised groups, her research and publications' interest focuses on Migration and Mobility. Her research's focus is on Highly Skilled Migrations, Identity transformation processes, and Self-Reflexivity in Migration research, explored from an intersectional perspective and systemic/relational approach. Her research activity is related to the analysis of systemic structures of power and oppression, opportunities and constraints, and copying strategies applied among migrant women, approached from a feminist criticism, in order to foster the social change. 

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8832-172X