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Lucia Tralli
Lucia Tralli is a gender and media studies scholar. Her main research focuses are grassroots media practices, the reuse of media images in audio-visual productions, popular culture, celebrity culture and intersectionality in the media. She has published papers and chapters on fandom, media and gender in several international academic journals and books, and her first book on fan vidding as a gendered practice, Vidding Grrls. Nuovi sguardi sulle pratiche di genere nei fandom, was published in 2021 by Meltemi. She is an adjunct professor at The American University of Rome, where she teaches media and gender and introduction to visual culture. She is currently also teaching gender studies at Polimoda–International Institute of Fashion Design and Marketing in Florence. She has extensively collaborated with Home Movies–Italian Amateur Film Archive in Bologna for more than fifteen years, where she has been curating and organizing cultural projects on the valorization of archival film heritage. In 2020, she completed her found-footage documentary, For Better or for Worse: Conversations with Sara (co-authored with Sara Iommi), about women’s marriage imaginary in Italy.
Contact: The American University of Rome, Via Pietro Roselli, 4, 00153, Rome.