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Supervisors: Dr Seth Graham and Dr Riitta Valijarvi听
Email: amanda.digioia.16@ucl.ac.uk
Present Status: PhD Candidate听
Working title of thesis:听Mothers and Maidens: Lyrical Depictions of Women in Finnish Heavy Metal Music Lyrics听
搁别蝉别补谤肠丑:听In my PhD thesis, I ask: 鈥楬ow are women, and to some extent, other genders, conceptualised and represented in Finnish heavy metal music lyrics?鈥�. In another chapter, based on my original PhD thesis topic, which I had to change because of my heart failure from my chemotherapy treatment, I ask the same question, except in the context of the Finnish heavy metal music scene, by utilising interviews with Finnish women and women living in Finland. However, my PhD thesis focuses mainly on Finnish heavy metal music lyrics.
听听听 听My research interests outside of my PhD thesis include feminist approaches to narratives in texts. My publications discuss a variety of topics, ranging from toxic masculinity in duelling, to childbirth and parenting in horror texts, to how feminine power won the Game of Thrones.听
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Publications
Books
Monographs
DiGioia, Amanda. Childbirth and Parenting in Horror Texts: The Marginalized and the Monstrous. Emerald Studies in Alternativity and Marginalization. Emerald Publishing Limited. July 2017.听
DiGioia, Amanda. Duelling, the Russian Cultural Imagination, and Masculinity in Crisis. Routledge. Forthcoming, October 2020.
Edited Volumes
Valijarvi, Riitta; Doesburg, Charlotte; DiGioia, Amanda (Eds). Multilingual Metal. Emerald Studies in Metal Music and Culture. Emerald Publishing Limited. Forthcoming, 2020.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
DiGioia, Amanda. 鈥楽谩mi Women. Terrestrial, Dialectical, Vigor, Ethos鈥�.听 Lectora: Revista de dones i textualitat. Volume 22. November, 2016, pp. 83-90 (1).
DiGioia, Amanda. 鈥楲echery, lycanthropy, and Little Red Riding Hood in Type O Negative鈥檚 鈥榃olf Moon (Including Zoanthropic Paranoia)鈥�. Metal Music Studies, Volume 2, Number 2. June 2016, pp. 233-243 (1).
DiGioia, Amanda. 鈥楢 cry in the dark: the howls of wolves in horror and heavy metal music鈥�. Horror Studies. Volume 7, Number 2. October 2016, pp. 293-306 (1).
DiGioia, Amanda and Helfrich, Lyndsay. 鈥淚鈥檓 sorry but it鈥檚 true: you鈥檙e bringin鈥� on the heartache鈥�: the antiquated methodology of Deena Weinstein鈥�. Metal Music Studies, Volume 4, Number 2, June 2018, pp. 365-374 (1).
DiGioia, Amanda. 鈥楴ameless, but not blameless: Motherhood in Finnish heavy metal music鈥�. Metal Music Studies, Volume 6, Number 2, June 2020, pp. 237-255 (1).
DiGioia, Amanda. 鈥楾he Queen in the North: How Feminine Power Won the Game of Thrones鈥�. The St Antony鈥檚 International Review (STAIR), Accepted: Forthcoming, 2020.
Book Chapters
DiGioia, Amanda. 鈥楩an Appreciation 2: Game of Thrones on Kinja鈥�. Fan Phenomena: Game of Thrones. Intellect Publishing (2017), pp. 82-87 (1).
DiGioia, Amanda and Naylor-Davis, Charlotte, 鈥楥ursed is the Fruit of thy Womb: Inversion/Subversion and the Inscribing of Morality on Women鈥檚 Bodies in Heavy Metal鈥�, Holland, S. and Spracklen, K. (Ed.) Subcultures, Bodies and Spaces: Essays on Alternativity and Marginalization (Emerald Studies in Alternativity and Marginalization), Emerald Publishing Limited (2018), pp. 27-42.
DiGioia, Amanda, 鈥楲ove Breed or Hate Haven? Localized Narratives of Identity in the Heavy Metal Music Scene of New Haven, Connecticut鈥�, Karjalainen, T (Ed.) Sounds of Origin in Heavy Metal Music, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2018), pp. 169-190.
Book Reviews
Heavy Metal Music Studies and Popular Culture, Leisure Studies in a Global Era, edited by Bryan Bardine, Gabby Riches, Dave Snell, and Brenda Gardenour Walter (2016), 1, London, Palgrave Macmillan UK, 214, 978-1-137-45667-0, Metal Music Studies, Volume 3, Number 1. March, 2017, pp. 157-160 (1).听
Heavy Metal, Gender, and Sexuality: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Florian Heesch and Niall Scott (Eds.) (2016), Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge, 282 pp., ISBN: 9781472424792, Metal Music Studies, Volume 4, Number 2: June 2018, pp. 385-394 (1).
Gender, Metal, and the Media: Women Fans and the Gendered Experience of Music, Rosemary Lucy Hill (2016), Pop Music, Culture, and Identity, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 184 pp., ISBN: 9791137554406, Metal Music Studies, Volume 4, Number 2: June 2018, pp. 385-394 (1).
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