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Summary

Alessia Tranchese is Associate Professor in Language, Feminism & Digital Media. Her research explores how language and media shape understandings of gender, sexuality, and violence, with a particular focus on the representation of violence against women in both mainstream and digital contexts.

Her current work examines pornography, misogyny, and sex education, analysing how violence is represented, discussed, and normalised on online platforms. Her combines corpus linguistics with innovative digital methods, including AI-based image and text analysis, to investigate the intersections of language, technology, and gendered violence.

She is the author of a book on #MeToo and media representations of sexual violence, and her broader body of work includes investigations of the online sex industry and of online misogynistic groups like incels. 

Beyond academia, Alessia has collaborated with organisations and think tanks such as The Zero Tolerance Charitable Trust, Against Violence and Abuse (AVA), the West London Rape Crisis Centre, DEMOS, and Full Fact.

Research interests

Teaching responsibilities

I coordinate and teach the following modules:

Gender, language and sexuality
Analysing language in a social context
Language and social media

PhD Research Supervision

I'm open to supervising students in the field of violence against women, media and language, pornography, and online misogyny.

Media availability

I'm happy to take calls and emails from the media on my research. Please contact me by email at alessia.tranchese@port.ac.uk or by phone on +44 (0)23 9284 6044.