Gianluca Fantoni is Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Humanities at Nottingham Trent University. His training is in twentieth-century Italian history, cultural studies and film studies.

He is the author of Italy Through the Red Lens: Italian Politics and Society in Communist Propaganda Films (1946-79) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), and Storia della Brigata ebraica. Gli ebrei della Palestina che combatterono in Italia nella Seconda guerra mondiale, Turin, Einaudi, 2022.