Fabio Cleto insegna Storia culturale e Letteratura inglese. Si interessa di storia del presente, cultura visiva, teoria queer, politica della rappresentazione e medialità. Fra i suoi lavori, i volumi Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999), Percorsi del dissenso nel secondo Ottocento britannico (Genova: ECIG, 2001), PopCamp (2 voll., Milano: Marcos y Marcos, 2008), Opale violetto verdeoro (Genova: ECIG, 2012), Intrigo internazionale. Pop, chic, spie degli anni Sessanta (Milano: ilSaggiatore, 2013), Fuori scena. Gli anni Zero e l'economia dell'osceno (Genova: ECIG, 2014), e Tempo di serie. La temporalità nella narrazione seriale (Milano: Unicopli, 2018). Ha scritto per cinema, radio, televisione, giornali, web; ha diretto collane editoriali e curato rassegne culturali. Il suo lavoro ha guidato, nel 2019, la mostra Camp: Notes on Fashion presso il Metropolitan Museum of Art di New York.

Fabio Cleto teaches Cultural History and English Literature. An authority on the theory and practice of camp (on which he published books in 1999, 2006, and 2008) , his research interests include cultural studies, visual culture, queerness, gender theory, history of the present and the politics of representation. He has also published books on nineteenth-century literary dissidence (2001), on American queer pulp fiction (2004, 2008), on Ronald Firbank (2012), on the mid-1960s transatlantic cultural economy (2013), on the obscenity of the Noughties (2014), and on serial time (2018). He has written for cinema, television, newspapers and the web; he has also edited academic book series and directed cultural festivals. In 2019, his work inspired the Camp: Notes on Fashion exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.