Maria Elena Alampi is currently a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Exeter, working on Italian girlhood and media for the AHRC project «A Girls' Eye-view: Girlhood on the Italian Screen since the 1950s». She obtained her PhD from the University of Birmingham in 2021. Her research interests focus on Italian cinema, particularly labour, precarity, and gender representations. She has recently published several articles and co-edited special issues on the themes of precarity and gender. In 2020, she co-founded the international academic network known as The Cinematic Precarity Research Network. Additionally, in 2021, she worked as a Research Assistant for B-Film-International Research Centre of Film Scholars at the University of Birmingham and co-organised with the Italian Studies department «Let's Queer It(aly)», a series of online meetings about queer culture in Italy, which won the SIS EDI Awards 2021.