Biography:

Danielle Hipkins started teaching Italian language and culture upon graduation from Oxford in 1996, working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Warwick whilst studying for a PhD on contemporary Italian Women Writers until 2000. In 2001 she took up her first lecturing post at the University of Leeds, where she worked until joining Exeter in 2006. Since joining Exeter she has focussed on teaching and researching film, with a particular emphasis on Italian cinema, gender studies and audience studies. She has worked on the representation of prostitution, of girlhood, and on Italian film and television audiences, both historic and contemporary. 

Research supervision:

Postgraduate Supervision since 2001

• PhD, ‘Italian Cinema's Missing Children (1992-2005)', Roger Pitt, Exeter Graduate Teaching Fellow, then AHRC-funded from 2007, 2006-2011
• PhD, The Coming of Age Narrative in Contemporary Italian Literature, Ilaria Masenga, Exeter bursary student, 2009-2013 (co-supervision with Angelo Mangini)
• PhD, Antonioni and Egoyan, Giulia Baso, funding by AHRC and Exeter bursary, 2010-2015 (co-supervision with Fiona Handyside)
• PhD, Italian Feminism and the role of translation, Elena Basilio, Exeter bursary student, 2010-2015 (co-supervision with Richard Mansell)
• PhD, Queering Practices of Women's Temporality: A Reflection of the Selected Works of Elvira Dones, Valeria Parrella, Romana Petri and Simona Vinci, Peyker Özler, 2022 (co-supervised with João Florencio)
• PhD, The Reception of and Response to Italian Cinema in Western Pennsylvania, Chris Hite, 2024 (co-supervised with James Lyons)