Matteo Pasetti is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies, University of Bologna. Here he teaches History of mass communication at the School of Arts, Humanities, and Cultural Heritage. In the past, he has been research fellow at the Department of History and Cultures (University of Bologna) and, 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, where his research focused on the roots of fascism, trade-union traditions, and ideological synthesis.
He is the author, among other publications, of Tra classe e nazione. Rappresentazioni e organizzazione del movimento nazional-sindacalista, 1918-1922 (Carocci, Roma 2008), Storia dei fascismi in Europa (Archetipolibri, Bologna 2009), and L'Europa corporativa. Una storia transnazionale tra le due guerre mondiali (Bononia University Press, Bologna 2016). He is the editor of Progetti corporativi tra le due guerre mondiali (Carocci, Roma 2006), Tra due crisi. Urbanizzazione, mutamenti sociali e cultura di massa tra gli anni Trenta e gli anni Settanta (Archetipolibri, Bologna 2013), and 1943. Guerra e società (Viella, Roma 2015).