Lidia Mateo Leivas works as a researcher and professor in the Department of Art History of the UNED (Madrid). Her work intersects Studies of Memory and Visual Culture, where she combines feminist and ecosocial thought, art history, cultural studies, politics of the gaze, the study of emotions and the anthropology of images.

She holds a PhD in Artistic, Literary and Cultural Studies from the UAM and the CSIC, and has spent time at the University of Buenos Aires, New York University and the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. He has curated exhibitions at the Museo Reina Sofía and the CSIC, as well as at Matadero-Madrid as a member of the Asociación Memorias en Red. She has worked as a researcher in the Department of Temporary Exhibitions of the Reina Sofía Museum and as a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication of the NYU.

He has developed projects in neighborhoods to facilitate the circulation of memories and knowledge, militates in various groups and has taught courses and conferences in cultural centers such as the Born in Barcelona or the Peace Museum in Guernica, and in universities such as Princeton or the Pontifical of São Paulo.

In addition to writing occasionally in fanzines and other spaces, he has published articles in journals such as Visual Studies, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies or Memory Studies. She is also the author of The Reverse of Censorship. Clandestine cinema during the late Franco regime and the Transition (CENDEAC 2020). She is interested in weaving meeting places between the academic world and everyday life, between theoretical thought and political action.