PhD Students
Rossana Galimi (she/her) is a PhD candidate in cotutelle in Philosophy at the University of Milan and in Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick, with a research project on contemporary female-directed horror from the perspective of feminist new materialisms. She graduated in Philosophy (BA) at the University of Padua, with a thesis on feminist visual culture, and in Philosophical Sciences (MA) at the University of Milan, with a thesis on French director Julia Ducournau. She published in the journals VCS. Visual Culture Studies and European Journal of Women’s Studies. She is Editorial Assistant of Cinéma&Cie. Film and Media Studies Journal and a member of the PRIN 2022 PNRR ARTCHAE. Rediscovering video and installation art as an archaeology of telepresence (P.I. Prof. Barbara Grespi), where she focuses on surveillance and self-surveillance in the work of early female video artists and on its theoretical implications. Her research interests include: intersections between gender and horror; feminist philosophies; film and moving image theories; female authorship in film and media; female artistic practices; the posthuman; surveillance studies; visual culture studies.