Dr Alessia Risi (She/her)

My research interests lie in intersectional feminist approaches to literature, film, and television by and about women. I thus focus on the dynamics of representational and storytelling modes between different media with a strong emphasis on feminist narrative agency, feminist historiographies and gender politics. At its core, my thinking is informed by the enduring conviction that ‘the personal is political’ and is especially alive to questions of how class, gender, sexuality, race, and other intersectional factors interrelate within representations of precarity in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.

I am a Lecturer in Italian and Film in the Department of Modern Languages, Cultures and Visual Studies, which I joined in 2017. Before coming to Exeter, I worked at Sapienza University of Rome, Dublin Institute of Technology, and University College Cork, where I completed my PhD in Italian Studies at University College Cork in 2013. 

I am Language Portfolio Representative for The Society for Italian Studies.