SHORT BIO

Domitilla (domi) is Assistant Professor at the department of Media and Culture Studies and affiliate researcher at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry, at UtrechtUniversity. The primary areas of expertise are at the crossroads of documentary studies, gender studies, visual studies, media studies, cultural studies, semiotics, and cultural and visual anthropology.

Domi was awarded a PhD with a doctoral research entitled Haunted by Reality. Towards a feminist study of documentary film: indexicality, vision and the artifice after graduating with a master in Anthropology at 'Sapienza' University of Rome in 2005 with specialization in ethnomusicology and visual anthropology, with a thesis entitled Hearing/feeling, Observing, Filming. Anthropology of the Senses in Vallepietra. After having been awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship for Early Stage Training in Gender and Women's Studies (EU Sixth Framework Programme) in 2015, Domi completed in 2008 a RMA in Gender and Ethnicity and in 2012 a doctoral degree at the History and Culture Institute (OGC) and the Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) at Utrecht University.

Committed to bridging the distance between academic and non-academic milieus, Domi has published in scholarly, activist and popular platforms, collaborates with cultural institutes, film festivals and other organizations in the Netherlands and in Italy, and participates to international collaborative art and documentary projects.

Other areas of interest are: video production and video editing, ethnomusicology, postcolonial studies, popular culture, science and technology studies, affect theories, anthropology of the senses, visual arts, technologies of vision, theories on the body and all those subjects in which theories on gender, technologies and representation can be constructively combined in order to provide an account of the power dynamics and relations embedded into social and cultural practices.