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-11005-60242000Giulia Evolvi, PH.d.Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam, The Netherlandsevolvi@eshcc.eur.nl@giuliaevolviresearch interestsReligion and media; religious diversity; social media; visual and material culture; Catholicism; Islam and Islamophobia.academic employement & EDUCATIONCURRENT POSITIONSeptember 2019 - Present Lecturer in Media and CommunicationErasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands PAST POSITIONS June 2016 -2020 Research Associate in Religion and Media Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Center for Religious Studies (CERES) 2012 – May 2016Ph.D. in Media Studies University of Colorado Boulder, USACollege of Media, Communication and Information (CMCI) Jan-July 2010Postgraduate Master in Fundraising for NGOsUniversity of Bologna, Italy Sep 2008-Jan 2009Erasmus Exchange ProjectUniversity Paris 7 Denis Diderot, Paris, France Sep 2007- Feb 2010 M.A in World Religion Studies (Laurea Specialistica in Scienze delle Religioni)University of Padua and University of Venice Ca’ Foscari, ItalyApr- July 2007Intensive Japanese CourseShibuya Gaigo Gakuin, Tokyo, Japan Sep 2004- Oct 2007B.A. in East Asian Languages and Cultures (Laura Triennale in Lingue e Culture dell’Asia Orientale)University of Venice Ca’ Foscari, Italy RESEARCHRESEARCH EXPERIENCE2016- 2020 Coordinator of the Focus Group Materiality K?te Hamburger Kolleg (KHK)Ruhr University Bochum, GermanyAug 2012- May 2016 Research Fellow Center for Media, Religion and Culture (CMRC) University of Colorado Boulder, USA Fall 2015 Research Assistant Project on media narratives and food consumption with Professor Shu-Ling Chen BerggreenUniversity of Colorado Boulder, USAFall 2013-Spring 2014 Research Assistant Project on social movements and digital media with Professor Andrew CalabreseUniversity of Colorado Boulder, USAAug 2010- Jan 2012 Research AssistantProject on critical care bed numbers in Europe European Society for Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), Brussels, Belgium ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONSBooksBlogging My Religion: Secular, Muslim, and Catholic Media Spaces in EuropeRoutledge Studies in Religion and Digital Culture series. 2018 Special Journal Issues“Islam, Space, and the Internet.” (edited with Maria Chiara Giorda)Journal of Religion, Media, and Digital Culture, Forthcoming 2021“Religion, Media, and Materiality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Religious Authority.” (edited with Jessie Pons).Entangled Religions Articles “Global Perspectives on Religion, Media and Public Scholarship: A Roundtable Conversation.” Co-author with Tim Hutchings, Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, Sam Han, Diane Winston. Journal of Religion, Media, and Digital Culture. Forthcoming 2020“New Media,” Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion and the Arts in the West: Renaissance to the Present. Forthcoming 2020“” “Materiality, Authority, and Digital Religion: The Case of a Neo-Pagan Forum.” Entangled Religions 11, no. 3 (June 17, 2020). HYPERLINK "" .“Emotional Politics, Islamophobic Tweets: The Hashtags #Brexit and #chiudiamoiporti”Partecipazione e Conflitto, 12, no. 3 (November 15, 2019): 871-897–897. “The Veil and its Materiality: Muslim Women’s Digital Narratives about the Burkini Ban.” Journal of Contemporary Religion, 34, no. 3 (September 2),: 469–87, 2019 “Contextualizing Current Digital Religion Research on Emerging Technologies” Co-author with Heidi Campbell. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 2019 “Hate in a Tweet: Exploring Internet-Based Islamophobic Discourses.”?Religions?2018,?9, 307. “#Islamexit: Inter-Group Antagonism on Twitter.”Information, Communication & Society, 2017, 1–16. “Hybrid Muslim Identities in Digital Space: the Italian Blog Yalla.”Social Compass, 2017, 220 - 232. also in Italian in Social Compass online: “Identità Ibride Musulmane e Spazi Digitali: Il Blog Yalla”“The Myth of Catholic Italy In Post-Fascist Newsreel.”Media History, 2016, 1–15. “Media Narratives and the Conceptualization of Tea: A Case Study of Teavana’s Oprah Chai Tea.”Journal of Journalism and Mass Communication, 2016, 1-11. Co-author with Shu-Ling Chen Berggreen and Nicolene Durham Book Chapters“Theoretical Frameworks for Approaching Religion and New Media”In Campbell, Heidi and Ruth Tsuria Digital Religion 2.0. Forthcoming 2020 “The Sacred Tech: Authority, Identity, and Practice in Neo-Pagan Digital Spaces.”In Hoover, Stewart, and Echchaibi, Nabil (eds.) 2020. The Third Spaces of Digital Religion. University of Pennsylvania Press. Forthcoming 2020.“Anti-Gender Movements in Europe: Unusual Religions and Unconventional Media” in Díez Bosch, M., Melloni, A. and Micó, J.L (ed.).?Perplexed Religion. Barcelona: Blanquerna Observatory on Media Religion and Culture.?ISBN 978-84-947978-5-9“#NousSommesUnis: Muslim Youth, Internet Spaces, and European Islam.” In Limacher, Katharina, Mattes, Astrid, and Novak, Christoph (eds.) 2019Prayer, Pop, and Politics: researching religious youth in migration society, V&r Unipress. ““Habemus Papam: Pope Francis’ Election as a Religious Media Event.” In Cohen, Yoel (ed.) 2018. The News and Religion: Comparative Perspectives. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Group “Is the Pope Judging You? Digital Narratives on Religion and Homosexuality in Italy.” In Dhoest, Alexander, Lukasz Szulc, and Bart Eeckhout. 2016. LGTBQs, Media and Culture in Europe. London: Routledge. HYPERLINK "" Case Studies“Exploring digital spaces: Interviews and Critical Discourse Analysis for the study of Muslim blogs.” in SAGE Research Methods Cases. 2018. Reviews Review of ‘Online Catholic Communities: Community, Authority, and Religious Individualization’, Marta Kolodziejska. 2017. 1 edition (New York: Routledge). Journal of Religion in Europe. 12, no. 1 (November 18, 2019): 79–80, HYPERLINK "" . Review of ‘Religion, Media, and Social Change’, Kennet Granholm, Marcus Moberg, and Sofia Sj? (eds). 2014. Routledge. Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture, 2015. Review of ‘Silver Screen Buddha: Buddhism in Asian and Western Films’, Sharon Suh. 2015. Bloomsbury. Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture, 2015. SERVICE TO THE PUBLICWeb Articles “#Islamexit: Islamophobia and Twitter after Brexit”LSE Brexit Blog, 28 February 2019. “Does Religion Sell? A Brief Journey in Religion and Advertising.” Marginalien, 15 March 2018. HYPERLINK "" “Go back to your (Muslim) Country: the Role of Islam and Islamophobia in the Brexit Debate.” Third Spaces Blog, 22 July 2016. HYPERLINK "" “Trump and All the Others.” Third Spaces Blog, 28 March 2016. HYPERLINK "" “Voices in Literature: Social Critique, Resistance and the Role of the Internet.” Third Spaces Blog, 25 October 2015. HYPERLINK "" “The Muslim Migrant: Media Discourses on Mediterranean Migration between Xenophobia and Christian Charity.” Third Spaces Blog, 29 June 2015. HYPERLINK "" “Zidane, Pope Francis, and la Mamma.” Third Spaces Blog, 1 February 2015. “Sister Cristina: the Voice of a New Catholicism.” Third Spaces Blog, 8 July 2014. “Soka Gakkai in the Internet Space: Hate it or Love it.” Third Spaces Blog, 10 February 2014. “I Don’t Care What You Believe, Just Believe in it.” Third Spaces Blog, 30 October 2013. “Have you been Touched by his Noodly Appendage? The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.” Third Spaces Blog, 2 July 2013. “@Pontifex: The Space of the Pope on Twitter.” Third Spaces Blog, 22 March 2013. “Tra Religione e Marketing.” Il Mulino, 15 October 2010. PodcastEp 96: "Blogging My Religion" and Media w/ Dr. Giulia EvolviThe Classical Ideas Podcast, 23 February 2019. SERVICE TO THE PROFESSIONPeer ReviewsInformation, Communication and SocietyNew Media and SocietyEntangled ReligionsReligionsCritical Research on ReligionJournal of Religion, Media, and Digital CultureMass Communication QuarterlyACADEMIC TALKSKeynote SpeechReligion and the urban, natural and virtual environmentsSociology of Religion Research NetworkEuropean Sociological AssociationGroningen, the Netherlands, 26-18 August 2020Online because of COVID-19Invited Talks “The Young Pope: Modern Catholicism from Jorge Bergoglio to Jude Law”Christian Identity in Crisis - believers and church in current film productionsSchwerte, Germany, June 2021Journées d’études : L’islam en ligne. Diversité des acteurs, des formes d’autorité et de légitimitéParis, France, 31 March- 1 April 2020CANCELED BECAUSE OF COVID-19Post-Truth Politics: Impacts on the Public Sphere and the Quality of Public DeliberationBirmingham, UK, 19 March 2020CANCELED BECAUSE OF COVID-19“Blog e Religione: Identità, Comunità, e Autorità”University of Turin, Italy, 6 February 2020Affect, Propaganda, and Political Imagination SymposiumUniversity of Toronto, Canada, 7-9 June 2019“From Religious Space to (Internet) Mediated Space”Reusing Religious Sites and Reactivating Normative TextsSyracuse University, New York, USA 4-5 March 2019“Religious Change and Digital Media: Exploring Hypermediated Religious Spaces.”Digital Religion and New Media WorkshopFondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy 17-18 May 2018.“Religion, Media, and Materiality.”The Transcendence/Immanence-Distinction (TID) ConferenceRuhr University Bochum, Germany 8 September 2017.“Media, Religion, and the Senses.”Religion and the Senses ConferenceRuhr University Bochum, Germany 7-9 September 2016.“Is the Pope Judging You? Internet Negotiations of Religious Values by LGBTQ communities in Italy.”College of Media, Communication and Information Research ColloquiumUniversity of Colorado Boulder, USA, 3 February 2016. “Religion and Diversity”Diversity and Inclusion Summit University of Colorado Boulder, USA, 13-14 November 2013.Conferences“The Mediterranean Border: Migration and Populism in Matteo Salvini’s Islamophobic Tweets”International Conference of the Center for Media, Religion, and Culture Boulder, Colorado, USA, 8-11 January 2020. “Islamophobia on Twitter: Antagonistic Anti-Muslim Narratives about Brexit and Migration”American Academy of Religion (AAR) San Diego, California, USA, 23-26 November 2019“Catholic Leaders and Political Participation: a New Type of Internet Engagement” (Acting also as panel Chair with Maren Freudenberg)International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR)Barcelona, Spain, 9-12 July 2019“Internet, Hashtags, and Muslims in Europe: a Qualitative Approach”European Association for the Study of Religion (EASR) Tartu, Estonia, 25-29 June 2019 “Media, Marginalization, Migration and Religion, Representation, Resistance” (Panel Chair with Mara Matta)European Association for the Study of Religion (EASR) Tartu, Estonia, 25-29 June 2019 “Anti-Gender Movement, Conservative Digital Populism, and the Rise of a New Public Catholicism”International Communication Association (ICA), Pre-conference on Media and ReligionWashington, DC, USA?24 May, 2019“Hypermediated Religious Spaces. Catholic Anti-Gender Blogs in Europe.”European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) Lugano, Switzerland, 31 October - 3 November 2018. “Religious Symbols in Europe: How Courts Rule, How Media Report, What Scholars Can Do.” (with Mauro Gatti)International Society for Media Religion and Culture (ISMRC) Boulder, Colorado, USA, 7-11 August 2018. “#NousSommesUnis: European Muslims’ Hypermediated Discourses.”International Society for Media, Religion and Culture (ISMRC) Boulder, Colorado, USA, 7-11 August 2018. “Global Perspectives on Religion, Media and Public Scholarship.” (Roundtable organized by Tim Hutchings)International Society for Media, Religion and Culture (ISMRC) Boulder, Colorado, USA, 7-11 August 2018. “#NousSommesUnis: Muslim Youth, Internet Spaces, and European Islam.” European Association for the Study of Religion (EASR) Bern, Switzerland, 17-21 June 2018.“Religion, Space, and the Internet.” (Panel chair with Maria Chiara Giorda)European Association for the Study of Religion (EASR) Bern, Switzerland, 17-21 June 2018.“Religious Symbols in Europe: a Discourse Analysis of European Courts’ Case Law.” (with Mauro Gatti)Impact of Religion ConferenceUppsala, Sweden, 24-26 April 2018.“#Islamexit: Twitter Discourses about Islam after the British Referendum.”American Academy of Religion (AAR) Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 18-21 November 2017“Re-mediating the ‘Burkini’: Muslim Women’s Networked Digital Discourses.”Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Tartu, Estonia, 18-21 October 2017.“Religious Authority and the Internet: Towards a New Framework.” (Panel with Frederik Elwert, Anna Neumaier, and Samira Tabti)European Association for the Study of Religion (EASR) Leuven, Belgium, 18-21 September 2017.“Habemus Papam: Pope Francis’ Election as a Religious Media Event.”International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR)Lausanne, Switzerland, 4-7 July 2017. “Is the Pope Judging You? Digital Narratives: Religion and LGBTQs in Italy.”European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) Prague, Czech Republic, 9-13 November 2016.“Is the Pope Judging You? Digital Narratives: Religion and LGBTQs in Italy.”Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Berlin, Germany, 5-9 October 2016. “Sentinelle in Piedi: The Hyper-mediation of Italian Conservative Catholic Action against Secularism.”International Society for Media, Religion and Culture (ISMRC) Seoul, South Korea, 1-5 August 2016. “Is the Pope Judging You? Internet Negotiations of Religious Values by LGBTQ Communities in Italy.”International Conference of the Center for Media, Religion, and Culture Boulder, Colorado, USA, 7-10 January 2016.“In-between Cultures and Religions: Second-generation Muslims in Italy.”American Anthropological Association (AAA) Denver, Colorado, USA, 18-22 November 2015.“Drink for Thought: Tea, Media Narratives and Sustainability.” (with Shu-Ling Chen Berggreen) American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) Portland, Oregon, USA, 5-8 November 2015.“Hybrid Muslim Identities in the Digital Space: the Italian Blog Yalla.”International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR)Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 2-5 July 2015.“Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and Election of Francis: Italian News from a Religious and Media Perspective.”International Society for Media, Religion and Culture (ISMRC) Canterbury, UK, 4-6 August 2014.“US perception of religious tolerance and civil liberties in the landscape ofreligious pluralism.”Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) Chicago, Illinois, USA, 16-19 April 2014.“News About Resignation and Election of the Pope: a Global Perspective.”Far West Popular Culture Association / American Culture AssociationLas Vegas, Nevada, USA, 21-21 February 2014.“Neo-Paganism online as an example of Third Space.”International Conference of the Center for Media, Religion, and Culture Boulder, Colorado, USA, 9-12 January 2014.“Neo-Pagans on the Internet.” Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Denver, Colorado, USA, 23-26 October 2013.“Neo-Paganism online as an example of Third Space.” Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR) Falun, Sweden, 21-24 June 2013.“The marketing of religion.” Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR) Turin, Italy, 9-11 September 2010. WORK TEACHING EXPERIENCECoursesLecturerClass: “Media Systems in Comparative Perspectives” (BA) Erasmus University Rotterdam, Media and CommunicationSpring 2020 Term 3LecturerClass: “Digital Media and Cultural Identities” (MA)Erasmus University Rotterdam, Media and CommunicationFall 2019 Term 2LecturerClass: “Key Concepts in Social Sciences” (BA)Erasmus University Rotterdam, Media and CommunicationFall 2019 Term 2LecturerClass: “Qualitative Methods” (BA)Erasmus University Rotterdam, Media and CommunicationFall 2019 Term 2LecturerClass: “Academic Skills” (BA)Erasmus University Rotterdam, Media and CommunicationFall 2019 Term 1LecturerClass: “Religion and Media” (MA)Center for Religious Studies, Ruhr University Bochum, Spring 2019Guest LecturerClass: “Key Concepts in the Study of Religion” (MA)Center for Religious Studies, Ruhr University Bochum, Spring 2019 Instructor and Teaching AssistantClass: “Group Interaction” (BA)Department of Communication, University of Colorado Boulder Spring 2016 Guest Lecturer Class: “Media, Industry, and Economy” (BA)Department of Media Studies, University of Colorado BoulderFall 2015- Fall 2016 Instructor and Teaching AssistantClass: “Contemporary Media Analysis” (BA)Department of Media Studies, University of Colorado BoulderFall 2014- Spring 2015 Guest LecturerClass: “Media, Culture, and Globalization” (MA)Department of Media Studies, University of Colorado BoulderFall 2013- Fall 2015 Guest LecturerClass: “Principles of Advertising and Consumer Culture” (BA)Department of Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder, Fall 2013 Summer and Autumn SchoolsAutumn School “Approaching religion at the intersection of culture, society, language, and politics” (MA and Ph.D.). Skype talkUniversity of Mashhad, Iran, October 2020Summer school “Religions and peaceful coexistence” (MA and Ph.D.)La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, Summer 2019EriC Summer School on Comparative Religions (MA and Ph.D.)Center for Religious Studies, Ruhr University Bochum, Summer 2017WORK EXPERIENCEJan-Jun 2012 Project OfficerEuropean Patients’ Forum (EPF), Brussels, Belgium 2010- Jan 2012 Research AssistantEuropean Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) Brussels, Belgium Jan-Apr 2009 Press Office TraineeEmbassy of Italy in Tokyo, Japan GRANTS, Languages & certificatesGRANTS, FUNDRAISING & EU-FUNDED PROJECTSFall 2015 Travel Grant recipientUniversity of Colorado Boulder United Government of Graduate Students (UGGS) Spring 2012 Project OfficerInterQuality Project, Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union (FP7) Jan 2011- Jan 2012Research AssistantLife-Priority Fund, a fundraising institution for the European Society for Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)LINGUISTIC SKILLSItalianNative speakerEnglish Native fluencyFrench FluentJapaneseConversationalGermanDutchConversational BeginnerCERTIFICATES & TRAININGSGraduate Certificate in Critical Theory, University of Colorado Boulder, USA Certificate in College Teaching, Graduate Teaching Program, University of Colorado Boulder, USA Thesis Supervision Course, RISBO, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Spring 2020. REFEREESNabil Echchaibi, Associate Professor of Media Studies and Chair of Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder : nabil.echchaibi@colorado.eduPh.D. SupervisorStewart Hoover, Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Center for Media, Religion and Culture, University of Colorado Boulder : hoover@colorado.eduMember of Ph.D. CommitteeHeidi Campbell, Associate Professor of Media Studies, Texas A&M University : heidic@tamu.edu? ?Book Editor and Co-AuthorShu-Ling Chen Berggreen, Associate Professor of Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder : shu-ling.berggreen@colorado.eduTeaching Mentor and Member of Ph.D. CommitteeMatthew Koschmann, Associate Professor of Communication, University of Colorado Boulder : koschmann@colorado.edu Teaching Mentor ................
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