Dr Alessia Risi (She/her)

My research focuses on three main areas: intersectional feminist approaches to literature, film, and television by and about women; histories and representations of multiculturality; and genre fiction, particularly crime narratives across literary and screen cultures. Across these areas, I am interested in the ways stories are told and represented in 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 shape representations of precarity in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.

I am a Senior 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 Schools Liaison Officer for The Society for Italian Studies.