Marta Boni

Marta Boni is a Full Professor at the Department of Art History, Cinema, and Audiovisual Media, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Université de Montréal. Her research focuses on digital-era television narratives, integrating pragmatic, cultural, and queer theoretical frameworks. She has authored works such as Perdre pied. Le principe d’incertitude dans les séries (2023) and co-edited volumes analyzing transmedia storytelling and platform impacts on television. Boni’s academic journey includes a Sorbonne doctoral degree, postdoctoral research at Concordia University and the University of Bologna, and teaching roles at Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 and Lyon 3.

Her research affiliations include the CRIHN (Interuniversity Center for Digital Humanities) and the Labo Télé research group, exploring digital-era television. She contributes to journals like CinémaS and Intermédialités. Boni supervises graduate students in areas like queer seriality, digital platforms, and transmedia narratives. She leads projects funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and Fonds de Recherche du Québec (FRQ), addressing topics such as media accessibility, adolescent TV consumption, and serial narratives' affective dimensions.

Her publications bridge television studies with digital humanities, emphasizing narrative complexity, audience engagement, and queer aesthetics. Recent work explores uncertainty in serial storytelling and platform-driven media transformations, reflecting her interdisciplinary approach to contemporary audiovisual culture.