Barbara Pezzotti, PhD (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ), is Senior Lecturer in European Languages at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She is a chief investigator for this project and is the lead investigator of the "Crisis of Democracy" case study.
She is the author of Mediterranean Crime Fiction: Transcultural Narratives in and around the 'Great Sea' (2023), Investigating Italy's Past through Crime Fiction, Films and TV Series: Murder in the Age of Chaos (2016), Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction: An Historical Overview (2014) and The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction: A Bloody Journey (2012). She is also co-editor (with sisters in crime Jean Anderson and Carolina Miranda) of three volumes on international crime writing: Blood on the table: Essays on Food in International Crime Fiction (2018), Serial Crime Fiction: Dying for More (2015) and The Foreign in International Crime Fiction: Transcultural Representations (2012). She has published journal articles and book chapters on film noir, Italian, Spanish, and Danish/Swedish crime fiction and the figure of the detective and the serial killer in New Zealand crime fiction. She lives in Australia with her husband Martin and their cat Garibaldi.
If you want to know about the genesis of Mediterranean Crime Fiction, see https://www.cambridgeblog.org/2023/11/plunging-crime-fiction-into-the-mediterranean-sea/.
If you want to know more about The Importance of Place in Italian Crime Fiction: An Historical overview, please see her blog on "Shots Crime & Thriller ezine": http://wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/politics-and-society-in-italian-crime.html
If you want to contact her, her email is: barbara.pezzotti@monash.edu