I am an independent researcher, writer and editor. I have recently received my PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London, and am disseminating my research to the wider academic community using various media – including this one. I also hold an MA in Literature, Culture and Modernity from Queen Mary, University of London and a BA in English from the University of Birmingham.

My doctoral research analyses militant appropriations of the Italian, or “Spaghetti”, Western which occurred around the time of the 1968 protest movements (thesis title: Radical Frontiers: Political Violence in the Italian Western (see abstract here)). I show how the codes of the Hollywood Western were adapted and re-inscribed with radically oppositional doctrine, and relate these films’ advocacy of insurgent violence to the eventual outbreak of terrorism in 1970s Italy.

I am now composing further articles around my research interests, while undertaking editorial duties and preparing my thesis for publication as a book. My most recent research extends my analysis of critiques dealing with state corruption, ideology and political violence within the Western all’italiana to incorporate an examination of the poliziottesco filone of the 1970s. I am also investigating the discrepancies between intended political inscriptions in popular Italian cinema of the 1960s and 1970s, and its tangible patterns of reception.

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