I accept proposals from prospective students who want to research women's film cultures through both historical and/or contemporary lenses. I am also interested in projects exploring minoritarian, peripheral film cultures, in Europe and in South America with transnational and feminist lenses; projects using digital humanities for historical and archival research; research adopting qualitative methods for the study of film industries and audiences.

My main research interests are the everyday and genered aspects of transnational film production and consumption, focusing on both historical and contemporary film cultures. I use feminist methodologies to address abscences and omissions in historical narratives and film canons, and over the years I have built solid expertise in archival research, oral history and biographical interviewing and, more recently, in digital humanities. My monograph “Women, Feminism and Italian Cinema: Archives from a Film Culture” for Edinburgh University Press (2022, winner of the BAFTSS Best First Monograpg Runner-Up Award) represents the first feminist historical assessment of women's role in Italian cinema from the 1960s to the 1980s. I am currently working on a second book project focusing on the networks of production and distribution of feminist and women's filmmaking during the UN Decade of Women (1975-1985).

Another strand of my research focuses on migrant women filmmaking and cinema-going, with a particular focus on transnational practices and circulation between Latin America and Europe.

I am founder and leader of the Audience research Network at Lancaster University, an interdisciplinary group of scholars with shared interests in researching media consumption and engagement from a wide range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. 

POSTGRADUATE (MA)

I contribute lectures to the following modules on the MA in Film Studies, Transnational Cinemas (LICA441) and I lead the optional module Cinema and History (LICA416). 

I supervise MA dissertations using both theory and practice-based methodologies.

UNDERGRADUATE

I lead the 2nd-year core module, Global Cinemas: Forms, Debates, Histories (LICA251) and contribute to lectures to the first year core-module Introduction to Film Studies (LICA150), the second-year option modules Film Theory (LICA252) and Documentary Cinema (LICA257).

I supervise undergraduate dissertations on a variety of topics, including dissertations that combine film practice with theory.