Tristan Venturi is a PhD candidate in Visual, Performative, and Media Arts at the University of Bologna. After graduating from John Cabot University with a BA in Communications and minors in Psychology and Creative Writing, he went on to pursue his Film Studies MA (Dist.) at King’s College London. His main research interests fall at the intersection of queer and media studies, and include critical theory, transgender media studies, feminist film theory, and critical sexuality studies. His current research project explores the unattended virtues of seemingly ‘bad’ transgender figurations populating Italian genre films throughout the late twentieth century.