Giulia Evolvi
Giulia Evolvi is a Marie Skłodowska Curie fellow at the University of Bologna, Italy, where she conducts MERGE, a project focused on digital media, Catholic social movements, and gender. During the project, Giulia will also be a visiting scholar at the Center for Media, Religion and Culture (CMRC) at the University of Colorado Boulder, U.S., where she obtained her PhD studying religious blogs. Previously, Dr. Evolvi worked as a lecturer in Media and Communication at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Religious Studies (CERES) at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, where she established a research area in religion and media.
Featured Work:
Evolvi, G. (2018). Blogging My Religion: Secular, Muslim, and Catholic Media Spaces in Europe(1 edition). Routledge.
Evolvi, G. (2022). The Theory of Hypermediation: Anti-Gender Christian Groups and Digital Religion. Journal of Media and Religion, 21(2), 69–88. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348423.2022.2059302
Evolvi, G. (2023). The World Congress of Families: Anti-Gender Christianity and Digital Far-Right Populism. International Journal of Communication, 17. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/13522
Upcoming Projects:
MERGE (2023-2026) is a project conducted at the University of Bologna by Dr. Evolvi, with the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Pittsburgh as host institutions for the outgoing phase. The project explores religion, media, and gender. In particular, it aims to capture the heterogeneity of modern Catholicism focusing on both conservative and progressive Catholic social movements and their online interactions on issues related to gender.
