Role
Associate Professor of Geography, University of Insubria. Advisor to the Italian Geographical Society. Board Member of the Media & Communication Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers. Co-founder of We-WISER.
Bio
Valentina Erminia Albanese earned a PhD in Economic and Political Geography from the Universities of Bari and Valencia, embarking on an academic journey that has seen her engage in research and teaching at several Italian universities, including Parma, Lecce, Bologna, and Pisa. Her education is distinguished by a strongly interdisciplinary approach, enriched by research periods as a visiting scholar at leading international institutions such as UCLA – University of California, Los Angeles, the University of Technology, Dublin, Maynooth University (Ireland), the University of Gothenburg, and Erasmus University Rotterdam.
She is currently an associate professor of Geography at the University of Insubria and conducts her research across tourism geography, decolonial geographies , dance geography, gender studies, and intersectionality . Her main research topics include the relationships between performance and landscape, spatial justice, digital geographies, climate activism, and urban security. She has also coordinated projects of national and international importance, including "We DanSe" and "COSMO," as Principal Investigator. She has received competitive funding and international scientific recognition, such as the Video Abstract Award from the Annals of Tourism Research journal.