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What am I working on right now ?

  • My dissertation“F*cking with the Virtual” thinking about cybersex through Bluetooth interactive sex toys, VR porn and sexting on dating apps, supported by the Chancellor’s Dissertation Year Fellowship, Kenneth R. Corday & Family’s FDM Endowment and SSRC Dissertation Development Program  


  • My dissertation essay film titled “Becoming Cybersexual” about virtual space, girlhood, desire and the Greek Internets


  • Working on my film “Image, Church, Island” about the island of Tinos and the virtual image of Virgin Mary with coolaborators Pavlin Ploumbidi and Yannis Lefas 


  • I am currently in the job market ! Hire me for your department :)



Upcoming talks/workshops/art: 

I am currently dissertating. Catch me at SCMS 2025. 


Fresh out of the oven and upcoming publications: 

.....Marilia is dissertrating......


Old News :

I did an interview for the Scholar Spotlight on Humanities Network. Here you can read what I think about research, pedagogy, technology and more. 


Presented  “Bluetooth Wireless Sex Toys and Travelling Affects”, at the 21st NECS 2023 Graduate Student Workshop titled “Futures of Care:  Media, Technology, and (Re)imagining Care“ in the Technological Intimacies: Curating Taste, Connecting the Home, and Mediating Desire Panel. In Oslo, Norway June 14, 2023


Participated in the Flaherty Seminar as an Online Fellow, from June 16-23, 2023, sponsored by the UCSC Center for Documentary Arts and Research


Participated in the School of X and presenting my dissertation project “F*cking with the Virtual” at XCOAX 2023. In Weimar, Germany July 5, 2023


Presented “The Embodied Male Gaze in VR Porn” In the Panel Intimate Spaces: Pornography, Labor, and Technology, Society of Cinema and Media Studies, In Denver, Colorado, April 12-15, 2023.


Presented “Bluetooth Orgasms” remotely in the panel Biotech, Power, and Identity at the Future Bodies Symposium by the New Media Caucus. In Virginia Tech University,  September 30, 2022.


Participated in the PhD Workshop Digital Intimacies and Emerging Adults  that will be held at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology - the University of Padova, Sepetmber 2-3, 2022.
https://ecrea.eu/page-18206/12768767


My short film “In Nisyros: An Instagram Story Poem” was screened at Program 6: Cruising/Meandering at the 3rd Small File Media Festival, Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, SFU Woodwards, Aug 11, 2022.


My short film “My Grandmother and the Eating Disorder” was screened at Small Files: P A S T program as part of the Small File Media Festival’s Greatest Hits night, at the 3rd Small File Media Festival, Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, SFU Woodwards, Aug 13, 2022.


Presented  “Situated and displaced: diasporic subjectivities in essayistic film production”, at the NECS 2022 Conference: Epistemic Media: Atlas, Archive, Network. In Bucharest, Romania, June 22-June 27, 2022

Published a small piece titled “Death and Resurrection: The Short-Lived Tinder Feed”, in Clog x Feeds (2022) BUY HERE

Published “Smartphones and the Perception of Space” in International Journal of Digital Innovation in the Built Environment (IJDIBE) 11, no.2: 1-13. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJDIBE.301243

Published “Bluetooth Orgasms” in MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, 37(71), 143–160. https://doi.org/10.7146/mediekultur.v37i71.125253
(Original work published December 22, 2021).  READ HERE


The film “My Grandmother and the Eating Disorder” was awarded the The Film and Video Poetry Society Award at the Small File Media Festival, 2021. 

Participated with “A Monumental Slap” in the pre-conference seminar Adapting Scholarship into Videographic Criticism for the Scholarly Conference, Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), March 11-12, 2022


Published “A Tinder Lover’s Discourse” in Passage Journal #1 Intimate Lineages (September 2021). READ HERE