Lora Jury

Graduate Fellow, 2022-24

Lora Jury is a British film scholar and 3rd year Ph.D. candidate in Italian Studies, with a double minor in Gender Studies and FTT (Film, Television and Theater). They grew up in Wales and graduated from the University of Reading, with a BA in English Literature and Italian Studies, and studyied abroad at the Università degli Studi di Bergamo. Lora subsequently moved to the US to complete an MA in Italian Studies from the University of Oregon. Their current research is on the Italian and European colonial origins of the traveling performer, the concept of the “Freak Show,” and the perception of corporeal abnormality in Federico Fellini’s cinematic oeuvre. Further interests include story and narrative development for video games, and the historical, critical, theoretical and practical terrain of print, radio, film, television and digital media.