Federica G. Pedriali is Professor of Literary Metatheory and Modern Italian Studies at the University of Edinburgh and Research Affiliate at the Edinburgh Futures Ins1tute. Her work intersects Biopolitics, Cognitive Narratology, Continental Philosophy, Decolonial Studies, Migration and Diaspora Studies, the Environmental Humanities, Performance Studies, and Political Theory. She is the founder and general editor of The Edinburgh Journal of Gadda Studies, and the founder and the chair of the Edinburgh Gadda Prize. She is currently working on biopower, dissonant heritages, and the future of change, having worked, among other things, on the spacialities of war, totalitarian Europe, and the digital humanities. She is the author or editor of 24 volumes. Her recent books include: (ed), Roberto Esposito’s Italian Thought (in press); (co-ed), Mobilizing Cultural Identities in the First World War (2020); (ed), Gadda. Interpreti a confronto (2020); Altre carceri d’invenzione. Studi gaddiani (2007).
She will edit the Roberto Esposito Dictionary for Edinburgh University Press and is working on Italy by Design. Materiality and Commodification (under consideration). She was appointed to the UKRI Talent Panel College and chairs Europe and the World as part of alliance of European Universities Una.Europa, Brussels. She has recently joined the Senior Editors team of Italian Studies and is a member of the Executive of the Society for Italian Studies UK. In 2024 she received a Knighthood for her distinguished career and for strengthening relations between Italy and the UK.