Profile
My PhD thesis, tentatively titled “Womb-Rooms: Immersive Cinematic Spaces and Feminist New Materialism”, interrogates the philosophical and political implications of immersive spectatorship in contemporary projection rooms. What happens when spectators are surrounded by all-encompassing projections rather than being seated in front of a screen? Studied alongside feminist new materialism, I argue that immersive cinematic spaces can help us reframe subjectivity in intrauterine terms: beyond notions of autonomy, mastery, and exceptionality; and towards notions of care, intra-relationality, and community.
This project is supervised by Prof Lucy Bolton and Dr Mario Slugan and is funded by Queen Mary University HSS Principal’s Research Studentship.
I hold a BA in Philosophy from the University of Pavia, and an MA in Film Studies with Philosophy from King’s College London.
Research
Research Interests:
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Film philosophy, Feminist film philosophy
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Feminist new materialism, Posthumanism
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French phenomenology and post-phenomenology
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Theories of spectatorship
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Immersive exhibitions, Contemporary digital aesthetics
Supervision
Dr Lucy Bolton, Dr Mario Slugan