Salma Mediavilla Aboulaoula

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Campus UFO - Technicum (ground floor T1), Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, 9000 Ghent

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Salma Mediavilla Aboulaoula holds a Master’s degree in Communication Sciences from Ghent University, where she specialized in Film and Television Studies (summa cum laude). In March 2021, she began working as a teaching assistant and doctoral researcher at the Department of Communication Sciences. She currently supports the courses Media en Gender, Mediageschiedenis, Beeldcultuur- en Analyse, Televisiestudies, Ontwikkeling en Esthetiek van de Film, and Cultural Media Studies.

Her PhD project, supervised by Prof. dr. Frederik Dhaenens and Prof. dr. Sofie Van Bauwel, adopts a multi-method approach to examine the depiction of diasporic Muslim women in Western media from a postcolonial feminist perspective. In addition to textual analyses of fictional media, her research includes a comparative audience study of diasporic Muslim women in the UK and Belgium, exploring their perceptions of such representations. She also conducts interviews with diasporic Muslim actresses in Belgium to better understand how they navigate their professional roles within these representational dynamics.

She is also a member of the university’s film club ‘Film-Plateau’ and an active member of VAF’s ‘Beoordelingscommissies Publiek’.