Attività di Ricerca
Research areas
a) Adaptation studies and media convergence; in particular, my research is focused on: the relationship between cinema and other media; intertextuality, intermediality and transmediality; convergence culture.
b) Gender studies and sexuality studies; in particular, my research is focused on: Italian popular cinema, contemporary US pornography, masculinity and gender representations in mainstream cinema and media.
Editor
2015-
Member of the Editorial Staff of Bianco e Nero (CSC)
2014-
Editor of the book series “Mapping Pornographies: Histories, Geographies, Cultures”
(Mimesis International)
2013-
Editor of the book series “Media/Eros. Sessualità, tecnologie, rappresentazioni”
(Mimesis)
2012-
Editor of the “New Studies” section of the journal Cinéma & Cie. International Film
Studies Journal (Carocci)
Managing Editor of the journal Cinergie. Il cinema e le altre arti (Mimesis)
2009-
Editor of the “Orienti/Occidenti” section of the journal Cinergie. Il cinema e le altre
arti (Mimesis)
2008-
Member of the Editorial Staff of the journal Cinergie. Il cinema e le altre arti
(Mimesis)
2006-
Member of the Editorial Staff of the journal Cinéma & Cie. International Film
Studies Journal (Carocci)
Editorial Boards
2014-
Member of the Editorial Board of the philosophical magazine Scenari (Mimesis)
2014-
Member of the Scientific Committee of “FilmForum: International Film Studies
Conference/MAGIS: International Film Studies Spring School,” Udine-Gorizia –
University of Udine
2013-
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Porn Studies (Routledge)
2013
Member of the Steering Committee of “Media Mutations 5. Ephemeral Media. Time,
Persistence and Transience in Contemporary Screen Culture”
Reviewer: Journals
G|A|M|E – The Italian Journal of Game Studies
Porn Studies
Between (Compalit)
Series
L'avventura
Bianco e Nero
Reviewer: Publishers
2011-
Editorial consultant for Mimesis/Mimesis International/Mimesis France (Milan-Paris)
2010-2011
Editorial consultant for Felici Editore (Pisa)
Reviewer: Book Series
Innesti | Crossroads: Cinema, letteratura e altri linguaggi | Film, literature and other
languages. Publisher: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari
Reviewer: Conference
“Media Mutations 5. Ephemeral Media. Time, Persistence and Transience in
Contemporary Screen Culture,”
Event Organisation
2012-2015
Coordinator of “FilmForum: International Film Studies
Conference/MAGIS: International Film Studies Spring School.”
2010-present
Scientific coordinator of the Porn Studies section of “MAGIS: International Film
Studies Spring School,” Gorizia – University of Udine
2007
Collaboration to the organisation of the retrospective dedicated to Franco Giraldi at
the “XVIII Trieste Film Festival,” Trieste 18-25 January
2006-2012
Member of the organisation team of “FilmForum: International Film Studies
Conference/MAGIS: International Film Studies Spring School”
Participation in Research Networks
2015-present
Member of CIRQUE - Centro interuniversitario di ricerca queer
2015- present
Member of AIRSC - Associazione Italiana per le Ricerche di Storia del Cinema
2014-present
Associate Researcher of the “Screen Cultures Network” (Birmingham Centre for
Media & Cultural Research)
2013-present
Member of CUC (Consulta Universitaria Cinema), Italy
2013-present
Member of the Research Workshop “The Abject Object of Enquiry,” coordinated by
Ellen Nerenberg (Wesleyan University) and Alan O’Leary (University of Leeds)
2011-present
Member of the international research network “OnScenity: Sex, Commerce, Media
and Technology in Contemporary Society”
2009-present
Member of “NECS – European Network for Cinema and Media Studies”
Funding
Project development and coordination
2014-2015
Erasmus Intensive Programme (IP) – European Commission: Education and Training
“Convergent Storytelling: Writing for the New Media,” University of Udine
Completed
Total contribution: € 45,000
2011-2014
Life-long Learning Programme (LLP) – European Commission: Education and
Training “ADRIART: Advancing Digitally Renewed Interactions in Art Teaching,” University
of Nova Gorica
Completed
Total contribution for the WP: € 31,000
2011-2013
Erasmus Intensive Programme (IP) – European Commission: Education and Training
“Geographies of Contemporary Audio-visual,” University of Udine
Completed
Total contribution: € 120,000
2006-2008
“Lo schermo triestino,” University of Trieste
Project funded by: Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia; Provincia di Trieste; Fondazione CRT
Completed
Total contribution: € 65,000
Participation in Funded Research Projects
2008-2011
Programma di Ricerca di Interesse Nazionale (PRIN) – MIUR
“I processi di rinnovamento dei ‘quadri’ nel cinema italiano. La formazione della
cultura cinematografica,” University of Udine
Completed
2005-2007
Programma di Ricerca di Interesse Nazionale (PRIN) – MIUR “Il cinema e le altre arti”
Completed