Anna Viola Sborgi

Anna Viola Sborgi is a Research Fellow at the University of Genoa and a Teaching Assistant at King’s College London, where she is in the final stages of her PhD in Film Studies. She also holds a PhD in Comparative Literature (University of Genoa, 2007). Her current research investigates the screen representation of gentrification in East London from the 1980s to the present. She co-edited the special issue “LondonIsOpen: London as a Cosmopolitan City in Contemporary Culture", Other Modernities N. 20 (2018). She published a chapter on the representations of the Grenfell Tower Fire, in After Grenfell: Violence, Resistance and Response (Pluto Press, 2019) and her forthcoming chapter “Housing problems: Britain’s housing crisis and documentary”, will be published inCinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe (Edinburgh UP 2020).