Shannon Magri is a second year PhD student with scholarship and Research Assistant at the Visual Media Lab at University of Bergamo. For the Fall 2024 semester, she is a Visiting Assistant in Research in Film and Media Studies and at the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) at Yale University. She holds a BA in Humanities and a MA in Visual Culture from the University of Bergamo.

Shannon’s research is interdisciplinary and transcultural-based, and is in the groove of literary, artistic and filmic ecocriticism. Shannon deals with the forms of representation of the ecological crisis in visual and audiovisual texts, emphasizing the concepts of media techno-aesthetics, the problem of the illusion of reality, and the relationship between body and (compromised) environment. The main objects of her doctoral research are filmic and immersive experiences, which she studies through the lens of enactive approach. At the University of Bergamo, she is performing activities related to the role of “subject expert” to the teaching of Cinema History and Criticism, and Visual Culture in the Department of Humanities, Philosophy, Communication. She is a member of the research group “CIMAV – Cinema e media audiovisivi” (Cinema and audiovisual media) and of CUC – Consulta Universitaria del Cinema Association. 

Since 2023, Shannon has been cooperating on two Research Projects of Relevant National Interest – PRIN 2022: “Movement Experience Through Rhythmic Organization in Audiovisual Representational Texts (METRO_ART)” and “Declinations of risk: for an archeology of aesthetic and literary imaginaries from the twentieth century to the present day in French-language literature.” She is also a member of the editorial staff of the A-rated journal Elephant and Castle – Laboratorio dell’immaginario, and she has been cooperating as Editor-in-Chief Coordinator of the Public Engagement project Cinema Docet.