Margherita Spiro situates Sarah Everard’s murder and her vigil in larger historical and contemporary contexts of power abuse by the police.
Margherita Sprio
Margherita Sprio is a Reader in Film and Visual Culture and the Deputy Director of the Graduate School at the University of Westminster. She is the author of Migrant Memories: Cultural History, Cinema and the Italian Post-War Diaspora in Britain (Peter Lang, 2013). She is currently working on her forthcoming book, Women in the Frame: Feminist Intimacies on the British Screen (Bloomsbury Academic). She studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths (University of London) and The Slade School of Art (University College London) and then worked for a time showing her work internationally before completing her PhD at Goldsmiths. She moved from making photographic and film works to writing and teaching about film and visual culture. She joined the University of Westminster in 2011 and has previously taught at a number of institutions in the UK including Birkbeck College, Goldsmiths, Middlesex University, Central St Martins and University of Essex.
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