Advisory Board
Danielle Hipkins is Professor of Italian Studies and Film at the University of Exeter. She has written widely on gender representation in postwar Italian cinema, and published Italy’s Other Women: Gender and prostitution in postwar Italian cinema, 1940-1965 (Peter Lang, 2016). She was also co-editor of Prostitution and Sex Work in Global Cinema (Palgrave, 2017) with Kate Taylor-Jones. With Daniela Treveri Gennari, Catherine O’Rawe, Silvia Dibeltulo and Sarah Culhane she co-authored Italian Cinema Audiences: Histories and Memories of Cinema-going in Post-war Italy (Bloomsbury, 2020). She is now leading the AHRC-funded project A Girls’ Eye-view: Girlhood on the Italian screen since the 1950s (2021-2024) together with Romana Andò (Università La Sapienza).
