Matteo Bonotti

Matteo Bonotti is an Italian political theorist. He is an associate professor at Monash University in Australia, where he teaches in the Department of Politics and International Relations. His research areas include political parties, freedom of speech, food policy, and language policy.

Career Bonotti was educated at Liceo Classico P.A. Guglielmotti in Civitavecchia before reading for a laurea in philosophy at Sapienza University of Rome from 1998 to 2003. From 2004 to 2005, he read for a Master of Science degree in International and European Politics at the University of Edinburgh, before completing a PhD in Politics at the same institution between 2006 and 2010. His doctoral thesis, supervised by Lynn Dobson and Wilfried Swensen, was entitled Pluralism and Moderation in an Inclusive Political Realm: A Normative Defence of Religious Political Parties. Between 2009 and 2013, Bonotti taught variously at the University of the West of Scotland, Stevenson College Edinburgh, the University of Stirling, and the University of Edinburgh, before moving to Queen's University Belfast in 2013, where he took up a post as Lecturer in Political Theory. He moved to Cardiff University in 2015, Bonotti remained a lecturer in Political Theory at Cardiff until 2017, when he took up the position of a lecturer at Monash University. and was promoted to associate professor at Monash. The following year, he published Gastrospaces: A Philosophical Study of Where We Eat, which was coauthored with Andrea Borghini, Nicola Piras, and Beatrice Serini, and Money, Parties, and Democracy: Political Finance Between Fat Cats and Big Government, co-authored with Zim Nwokora. In 2026, he published Diasporas, Voting and Linguistic Justice: A Study of Second- and Third-Generation Italo-Australians, co-authored with Chiara De Lazzari and Narelle Miragliotta.

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