Communication and Media Studies, Psychological and Social Sciences
Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies (2018)
Laurea triennale, University of Bologna, 2004
Laurea specialistica, University of Bologna, 2008
Ph.D., Université du Québec à Montréal, 2015
Eleonora Diamanti’s research interests lay at the intersection of media studies, urban studies and feminist theory. She recently edited a special issue of the peer-reviewed journal Ethnologies, titled Nocturnal Ethnographies: Aesthetics and Imaginaries of the Night. She also edited a peer-reviewed issue of Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture showcasing student work from her course CMS/SOSC 327 Urban Media. Her upcoming monograph titled Cinematic Nightscapes: Documentary and Ethnographic Filmmaking in Cuba will appear in the Anthropology, Creative Practice, and Ethnography series for Manchester University Press.
As a long-term member of the International Night Studies Network, she co-leads the axis on Media and the Night and she recently co-founded the Urban Media Research Group.
Professor Diamanti takes a special interest in alternative modes of undertaking and disseminating academic research. She participated in research-creation projects in Canada, Italy, and Cuba, involving audiovisual production, performance, and activist work. She co-directed “Guardians of the Night” (2018) an experimental short-length ethnographic film on nighttime activities in Guantanamo (Cuba). She has also been part of Emidio di Treviri, an independent/activist research group working on the reconstruction process in Central Italy after the earthquake of 2016-2017. With the group, she co-directed the short-length documentary “After the Earthquake” (2017) on material culture and loss, and participated in the research for the feature-length documentary Le terre di tutti (2019) on collective practices of inhabiting rural areas and conceiving the “commons."
Prior to joining JCU, Professor Diamanti was postdoctoral fellow and limited-term Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Victoria and postdoctoral fellow in the Facility for Architectural Research in Media and Mediation at McGill University, Canada.
