Federica Mazzara is Associate Professor in Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster, London. She works on migration and its representation across different media. She has co-curated an exhibition at P21 Gallery in 2019 on the subject of migrant deaths at sea. She is the author of Reframing Migration: Lampedusa, Border Spectacle and the Aesthetics of Subversion (2019). Mazzara has acted as scientific coordinator for the University of Westminster within the Project MIGRANTS, an Erasmus + Capacity Building for Higher Educations Project.