Postdoctoral Research Fellow
About
Francesca Romeo received her BA in English with an emphasis in post-colonial literature from UC Berkeley, an MFA in Photography and an MS in Art History from Pratt Institute, and a PhD in Film and Digital Media from UC Santa Cruz. Her scholarship examines the nexus of digital media and political violence. Drawing upon visual studies and political theory to interrogate the nature of information and advocacy in the digital age, she is particularly invested in how networked resistance proliferates in a global context through the production and circulation of images.
Her most recent publications include “Networked Testimony as Necroresistance,” published in Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, and “Forensic Architecture and the Aesthetics of Post-Human Testimony,” published in Digital Journalism. Romeo also studies the history, theory, and practice of open-source investigations and how user-generated content and digital forensics can produce novel forms of human rights advocacy. She has worked as a documentary photographer and filmmaker for several decades and served most recently as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Communication at The University of Tampa. Her forthcoming book project examines how Indigenous anti-feminicide activists mobilize digital technologies to combat the MMIWG2S crisis while decolonizing the digital public sphere.
