Despoina Mantziari

Despoina Mantziari is Assistant Professor in Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. She specialises in the wider area of feminism and film. She has previously published work on representations of gendered violence in contemporary media cultures, as well as on the compromises involved in the performance of feminist authorship within postfeminist Western cinema cultures. Most recently she has contributed a chapter in the edited collection The Routledge Handbook of Motherhood on Screen (2025) edited by Susan Liddy and Deirdre Flynn.