Maya De Leo

Maya De Leo (she/they) holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Pisa. She has been an Adjunct Professor of Gender History at the University of Genoa (2017 and 2018) and of History of Homosexuality at the University of Turin (2018/2022). She also taught LGBTQIA+ History at the University of Trento and at the Scuola Galileiana di Studi Superiori of Padua. She has been awarded the Emma Goldman Snowball Award (2022) and her book, Queer. Storia culturale della comunità LGBT+ (Einaudi, 2021), has been awarded the 2022 SISSCO (Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History) prize for best first work.