Bianca Rita Cataldi is a Lecturer in Italian at the University of Galway. She holds a PhD in Italian Studies from University College Dublin, where she researched Italian industrial literature and twentieth-century narratives of labour. This research led her to investigate the relationship between labour and migration, and her current work explores transnational Italian literature, migration narratives, and women’s writing. She has published extensively, including the monograph Industrial Literature and Authors: Labor, Factory Utopias and Testimonial Intent (Routledge, 2024). She is currently the PI of the project “TRAIN – Transnational Research and Interdisciplinary Networks”, funded by UCD Research Culture and Wellcome Trust.

She teaches in the fields of Contemporary Italian literature, Migration Literature, Postcolonial Italian Literature, European Studies, Women's Writing, and Translation