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.