Dr Maria Elena Alampi

My research interest lies in Italian cinema. Specifically: labour, precarity, and gender representations. Co-Founder of the Academic Network: Cinematic Precarity Research Network

Maria Elena Alampi completed her BA in Modern Languages at the University of Messina (Italy) in 2008 with a thesis on the postmodern cinema of Woody Allen. Subsequently, she obtained her MA in Modern Languages, Literatures and Translations cum laude at the University of Messina (Italy). Her thesis focused on Malcolm X and his cinematographic representation by Spike Lee (1992). She obtained her PhD at the University of Birmingham with a thesis entitled "The New Italian Cinema of Precarity". She is currently working on girlhood and media at the University of Exeter as Postdoctoral Research Assistant for the AHRC project "A Girls’Eye-view: Girlhood on the Italian screen since 1950s".