Role
Full Professor of Geography at the University of Milan-Bicocca, president of the Association of Italian Geographers (A.Ge.I.)
Bio
After spending several years as a researcher at the Catholic University of Milan and teaching at other universities, Elena dell'Agnese joined the University of Milano-Bicocca as an associate professor in 2001, where she is currently a full professor of Geography. At the university, she coordinated study programs on tourism and directed the visual research laboratory. At the international institutional and scientific level, she has held leading roles in the International Geographical Union (IGU-UGI), serving as vice president between 2014 and 2022, and is a member of the Executive Committee of UNESCO's CIPSH. At the national level, she chairs the Association of Italian Geographers (A.Ge.I.).
Her research interests focus on cultural and political geography, with a particular focus on geopolitical representations and their connection to propaganda and popular culture . She has also studied borders and frontier landscapes, and the relationship between food and sustainability , coordinating major research projects of national interest (PRIN) focused on visual landscapes and the territorial dimensions of food.
Director of editorial series and of the scientific journal 'Geotema', she was awarded the title of honorary member of the Sociedad Geografica de Colombia in 2025.