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Dr. Domitilla (Domi) Olivieri is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University's Department of Media and Culture Studies within the Faculty of Humanities, specializing in Gender Studies. She is also an affiliate researcher at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry. Dr. Olivieri's academic work bridges the fields of documentary studies, gender studies, visual studies, media studies, cultural studies, semiotics, and cultural and visual anthropology.
Her research focuses on feminist, queer, postcolonial and decolonial theory, documentary film, visual anthropology, media, and cultural studies. Dr. Olivieri's work examines the politics of representation, technologies of vision, and the intersection of gender, technologies, and representation in social and cultural practices. Her recent scholarship has increasingly engaged with concepts of time, rhythm, and slowness as forms of resistance to neoliberal academic structures.
Analysis of Dr. Olivieri's 15 most recent publications reveals consistent engagement with documentary film as a site of feminist and postcolonial knowledge production, with growing attention to the politics of time and speed within academic institutions. Her work frequently employs interdisciplinary approaches that combine film analysis, gender theory, and anthropological methods to examine power dynamics embedded in visual representation.
- Marie Curie Fellowship for Early Stage Training in Gender and Women's Studies (EU Sixth Framework Programme)
Dr. Olivieri is deeply committed to community-engaged learning and has published across scholarly, activist, and popular platforms. She collaborates with cultural institutes, film festivals, and other organizations in the Netherlands and Italy, and participates in international collaborative art and documentary projects. She is also a member of queer.red foundation, a sex worker film and arts festival. Her teaching and research emphasize bridging academic and non-academic communities through interdisciplinary education and participatory action research.
Dr. Olivieri's research activities include the 'Slowing Down (in) Academia' project, which examines normative habits of time management in universities, and she serves as a promoter for the 'ERC Digital Crossings in Europe: Gender, Diaspora and Belonging' project. She has also led the NOISE Summer School on 'Politics of In/Visibility,' which explored visibility dynamics through the lenses of gender studies, feminist theory, postcolonial theory, and media studies.
