Lucia Tralli is a gender and media studies scholar. Her primary research focuses are聽grassroots聽media practices, fandom cultures, popular culture, bisexual representation, 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 book on fan聽vidding聽as a gendered practice,聽Vidding聽Grrls, was published in 2021 by Meltemi.听听
She is Assistant Professor of Communication and Digital Media at AUR - 91直播 of Rome, where she teaches, amongst other courses, Media and Gender and Introduction to Visual Culture.听听
She has collaborated for over fifteen years with Home Movies - the Italian Amateur Film Archive in Bologna, curating and organizing cultural projects and festival events on archival film heritage. Since 2020, she has been a documentary programmer for Some Prefer Cake 鈥� International Lesbian Film Festival in Bologna and a member of the International Bisexual Research Group鈥檚 Leading Team.聽
Selected projects & publications
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聽Vidding聽Grrls. Nuovi sguardi sulle pratiche di genere nei fandom,聽Meltemi, Milano, 2021.听听
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Vidding聽Italian聽Style.聽Collabs, Fan聽Edits, and the聽Fannish聽Bilingualism聽of the聽Italian聽Fan Video Community聽in Samantha Close, Louisa E. Stein (edited聽by),聽Routledge Companion to Fan Video and Digital聽Authorship, Routledge, 2025, pp.248-264.听听
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Anything聽for Love. Remix聽as聽Affective聽Practice聽within聽the聽Vidding聽Community聽in Eduardo Navas, Owen Gallagher, and聽xtine聽burrough聽(edited聽by),聽Routledge Companion to Remix Studies, 2nd聽Edition, Routledge,聽forthcoming聽2024, pp.354-365.听听
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