Matteo Pasetti is Associate Professor at the Department of the Arts, University of Bologna. He teaches History of mass communication, History of journalism, and Politics and visual culture in contemporary history. He has been research fellow at the Department of History and Cultures (University of Bologna) and visiting fellow at the University of Lisbon and at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. From 2009 to 2014, he held courses of contemporary history at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He obtained his PhD at the University of Urbino in History of Political Movements, with a thesis on the roots of fascist syndicalism.

His main research interests focused on Italian and European fascism, corporatist projects aimed at reshaping political systems and trade union relations, the cultural legacy of 20th-century dictatorships, and the public use of the past in media communication. His most recent work in progress deals with the topic of drugs consumption in the last decades of the 20^th Century as a socio-historical phenomenon.

Among his many publications, he is the author of the books "Tra classe e nazione. Rappresentazioni e organizzazione del movimento nazional-sindacalista, 1918-1922" (Carocci, Roma 2008), "Storia dei fascismi in Europa" (Archetipolibri, Bologna 2009), "L'Europa corporativa. Una storia transnazionale tra le due guerre mondiali" (Bononia University Press, Bologna 2016), and "Storia delle comunicazioni e della cultura di massa"(Le Monnier, Milano 2026).