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Sandra Ponzanesi
Sandra Ponzanesi is chair and full professor of media, gender and postcolonial studies, at the Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She is PI of the ERC project ‘Digital crossings in Europe: Gender, diaspora and belonging’ CONNECTINGEUROPE. She has been an exchange-student, a research fellow and a visiting professor at several international institutions (Sussex University, University of California, Riverside, UCLA, Rutgers University, New York University, Columbia University and London School of Economics, LSE). She has published widely in the field of media, postcolonial studies, digital migration and cinema with a particular focus on postcolonial Europe from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. Among her publications are: Paradoxes of Postcolonial Culture (Suny, 2004), The Postcolonial Cultural Industry (Palgrave, 2014), Gender, Globalisation and Violence (Routledge, 2014). She is co-editor of Migrant Cartographies (Lexington Books, 2005), Postcolonial Cinema Studies (Routledge, 2012), Deconstructing Europe (Routledge, 2012), Postcolonial Transitions in Europe (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2016) and Postcolonial Intellectuals in Europe (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2018). She has also guest edited several Special Issues on Europe, digital migration and cinema for peer-review journals such as Social Identities, Crossings, Interventions, Transnational Cinemas, Popular Communication, Television and New Media, International Journal of Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Studies.