Giuliana Colaizzi

Giuliana Colaizzi is a Professor of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising in the Department of Language Theory and Communication Sciences at the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication, University of Valencia. She is also affiliated with the University Institute of Women's Studies (IUED) and leads the research group IbiTec (Interculturality, Biopolitics and Gender Technologies), as well as co-directing the journal EU-topías. Her work bridges feminist theory, poststructuralism, and media studies.

Her research interests center on feminist and poststructuralist theory, particularly in relation to film, literature, and visual culture. She investigates how cultural products like cinema and literature function as technologies of the collective imagination, shaping subjectivity, gender, and political identity. Drawing from thinkers such as Donna Haraway, Gayatri Spivak, and Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Colaizzi emphasizes the non-neutrality of discourse and the construction of truth through power-laden representations. She has long explored the intersections of gender, technology, and representation, especially in the context of cyberfeminism.

The 15 most recent publications reflect a sustained engagement with themes of subjectivity, gendered discourse, visual culture, and technological mediation. Her work spans books, journal articles, and book chapters, consistently analyzing how identity, power, and knowledge are constructed in audiovisual media. Keywords across these works include feminist theory, poststructuralism, gender, media, and technology, with subfields such as cyborg theory, performativity, and ideological critique recurring throughout.

Colaizzi is a co-founder and member of the advisory board of the 'Feminismos' collection published by Cátedra, which has been instrumental in disseminating key feminist texts in the Spanish-speaking world. She has also contributed to numerous academic journals and edited volumes, demonstrating a strong commitment to feminist intellectual production and intercultural dialogue.

She has supervised doctoral research and has been a central figure in feminist academic discourse in Spain since the 1990s. While no formal grants are mentioned in the text, her leadership in multiple research groups and editorial roles indicates active involvement in funded and collaborative academic projects. Her work continues to influence feminist theory and cultural studies across Europe.

She is associated with the research groups GECOHIS (Gender, Knowledge, History and Subjectivity) and InterCom (Interculturality and Communication), further underscoring her interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to scholarship.