Mara Josi obtained her PhD at the University of Cambridge. Before joining the University of Ghent as an FWO Postdoctoral Fellow, she was an IRC Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin and a lecturer at the University of Manchester.
Her first monograph, Rome, 16 October 1943, is devoted to the literary production of the largest single round-up and deportation of Jews from Italy (Legenda, 2023).