Milena Sabato holds a PhD in Italian History from the University of Salento, where she has been Postdoctoral Researcher and Adjunct Professor in Early Modern and Modern History.

She qualified as Associate Professor in Early Modern History, and is currently Adjunct Professor at Roma Tre University. Her research focuses on censorship, history of the book, gender history, and historical methodology.

She is the author of two monographs on censorship and culture in Southern Italy during the early modern and modern period, and of numerous articles and chapters in scholarly journals and edited volumes. Her current projects include co-writing (with Mark Seymour) an analytical primary-source collection on modern Italy, for Bloomsbury Academic. Together with Gianluca Fantoni, she is Co-Editor of the Cambridge journal Modern Italy.