Mara Matta is a researcher in South Asian Studies at the Istituto Italiano di Studi Orientali, Università di Roma „La Sapienza“, where she has been teaching “Modern Literatures of the Indian Subcontinent” for the last seven years. Her recent studies, which were part of her postdoctoral fellowship project at the Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”, focused on indigenous literatures and cinemas in the borderlands of Northeast India and Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts. She is continuing her research on literature and filmmaking as modes of retrieving a voice, fighting a visual hegemonic regime and providing alternative insights into the social and cultural history of “subaltern people” in India and Bangladesh (Adivasis, Dalits, women). Dr. Matta also works on issues of migration and diaspora, both in South Asia and Italy, and is a member of the Archive of Migrant Memories (AMM, Rome) and of NETPAC (The Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema).
