Diana Manesi

Diana Manesi completed her PhD studies in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths College with a focus on “Queer and Lesbian Feminism: Politics, Identities, Subjectivities”. She has taught at the Social Anthropology department of Goldsmiths College for three consecutive years (courses: Ethnography of a selected area: Europe, Introduction to Anthropological Methods, and Political and Economic Anthropology). She has also taught the course “Gender, Science and Technology” at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her research interests include feminist and queer theory, queer anthropology, biopolitics, gender violence, migration and the refugee experience, affect theory, LGBTQ social movements. Part of her work has been published at academic journals and edited volumes. She has worked as a researcher and trainer/educator at the Center for Gender Rights and Equality “Diotima.” She has also worked voluntarily at the UK National Domestic Violence Helpline. She is the founder of the NGO “Lesbians* on the verge”, where for the past three years she co-organises the Lesbian* Feminist Festival and attempts to bring together queer and lesbian feminist discourse and praxis.