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Dr Diana Garrisi
Journalism Lecturer (Teaching and Research)
Overview
Diana Garrisi is a lecturer in journalism at Cardiff University's School of Journalism, Media and Culture. Her research interests include nineteenth-century press history; journalism education in transnational contexts; feature writing theory and practice; body image and the media; and Nonviolent Communication. She is the author of Reporting Skin and the Wounded Body in Victorian Britain (Palgrave Macmillan), a book that explores the intersections between dermatology and the development of the news press in the nineteenth century.
Prior to her appointment at Cardiff University, she worked in China for over four years as an Assistant Professor in Journalism at the Sino-British joint venture Xi'an Jiaotong – Liverpool University.
Diana has published in various peer-reviewed journals including: Journalism Studies; Journalism Practice; Media Practice and Education; Public Understanding of Science; the Journal of Science Communication, and Early Popular Visual Culture. Together with Jacob Johanssen, she co-edited Disability and the Media: Other Bodies (Routledge, 2020), which received the Choice 'Outstanding Academic Title' Award. With Xianwen Kuang, she is co-editor of Journalism Pedagogy in Transitional Countries (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
Keen on interdisciplinary research at the intersection of medical humanities and journalism, her study on the news depiction of skin in Victorian newspapers earned her the Samuel J. Zakon price in the History of Dermatology.
Diana holds a BA+MA in Romance Philology (Università degli Studi di Milano), and an MA in International Journalism (Cardiff University). She received her PhD in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Westminster, where she subsequently worked for two years as a Visiting Lecturer and as a co-principal investigator of the Quintin Hogg Trust-funded, impact-oriented project on the media representation of facial disfigurement in the UK.
In addition to her academic background, she has professional experience in print and radio journalism. As a freelance feature writer her articles have appeared in several news outlets including: BBC History Magazine, The New Statesman, The Times Higher Education, The Big Issue, and L' Espresso.
Diana welcomes enquiries from prospective PhD students in her areas of expertise.
Publication
2024
- Garrisi, D. 2024. Reporting skin and the wounded body in Victorian Britain. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (10.1007/978-3-031-75368-8)
- Garrisi, D. 2024. Analysing the news coverage of "pet regret" in the UK through the framework of Nonviolent Communication. Journalism Practice 18(2), pp. 433-451. (10.1080/17512786.2023.2260784)
- Garrisi, D. and Huang, J. 2024. Teaching investigative journalism in a transnational university in China. In: Mutsvairo, B., Bebawi, S. and Borges-Rey, E. eds. The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South. Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions Routledge
2022
- Garrisi, D. and Kuang, X. eds. 2022. Journalism pedagogy in transitional countries. Palgrave Studies in Journalism and the Global South. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Garrisi, D. and Kuang, X. 2022. Conclusion. In: Garrisi, D. and Kuang, X. eds. Journalism Pedagogy in Transitional Countries.. Palgrave Studies in Journalism and the Global South Cham: Palgrave, pp. 221-226., (10.1007/978-3-031-13749-5_10)
- Garrisi, D., Kuang, X. and Reis, C. 2022. Introduction. In: Garrisi, D. and Kuang, X. eds. Journalism Pedagogy in Transitional Countries. Palgrave Studies in Journalism and the Global South. Cham: Palgrave, pp. 1-17., (10.1007/978-3-031-13749-5_1)
- Garrisi, D. 2022. The campus magazine as an aesthetic experience in a transnational university in China.. Media Practice and Education 23, pp. 262-280. (10.1080/25741136.2022.2072677)
2020
- Garrisi, D. 2020. Syntax as meaning: the stylistic construction of the past in American feature writing. Journalism Studies 21(14), pp. 1990-2006. (10.1080/1461670X.2020.1809492)
- Garrisi, D. and Johanssen, J. 2020. Introduction. In: Johanssen, J. and Garrisi, D. eds. Disability, Media, and Representations Other Bodies. New York: Routledge, pp. 1-18., (10.4324/9780429469244)
- Johanssen, J. and Garrisi, D. eds. 2020. Disability, media, and representations: Other bodies. Routledge.
2019
- Garrisi, D. 2019. Christmas 1864: death from bedsores in a workhouse–the politics of wound care, the media and social reform in Victorian London. Public Understanding of Science 28(8), pp. 1005-1009. (10.1177/0963662518813461)
2018
- Garrisi, D. and Johanssen, J. 2018. Competing narratives in framing disability in the UK media: a comparative analysis of journalistic representations of facial disfigurement versus practices of self-representations online. JOMEC Journal(12), pp. 128-144. (10.18573/jomec.172)
- Garrisi, D., Janciute, L. and Johanssen, J. 2018. Appearance, discrimination and the media: Portraying facial disfigurement fairly in the news. Project Report. [Online]. London: University of Westminster Press. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv5vdf07
2017
- Garrisi, D. 2017. The Victorian press coverage of the 1842 report on child labour. The metamorphosis of images. Early Popular Visual Culture 15(4), pp. 442-478. (10.1080/17460654.2017.1406812)
- Johanssen, J. and Garrisi, D. 2017. “I am burning, I am burning”: affect, acid attacks and British tabloid newspapers. Journalism Studies 20(4), pp. 463-479. (10.1080/1461670X.2017.1389294)
- Garrisi, D. 2017. Reading dermatology in the Victorian newspaper. The performance of medical vocabulary in The Times correspondence column. Journal of Science Communication 16(3), pp. 1-13. (10.22323/2.16030212)
2015
- Garrisi, D. 2015. On the skin of a soldier: The story of flogging. Clinics in Dermatology 33(6), pp. 693-696. (10.1016/j.clindermatol.2014.12.018)
Articles
- Garrisi, D. 2024. Analysing the news coverage of "pet regret" in the UK through the framework of Nonviolent Communication. Journalism Practice 18(2), pp. 433-451. (10.1080/17512786.2023.2260784)
- Garrisi, D. 2022. The campus magazine as an aesthetic experience in a transnational university in China.. Media Practice and Education 23, pp. 262-280. (10.1080/25741136.2022.2072677)
- Garrisi, D. 2020. Syntax as meaning: the stylistic construction of the past in American feature writing. Journalism Studies 21(14), pp. 1990-2006. (10.1080/1461670X.2020.1809492)
- Garrisi, D. 2019. Christmas 1864: death from bedsores in a workhouse–the politics of wound care, the media and social reform in Victorian London. Public Understanding of Science 28(8), pp. 1005-1009. (10.1177/0963662518813461)
- Garrisi, D. and Johanssen, J. 2018. Competing narratives in framing disability in the UK media: a comparative analysis of journalistic representations of facial disfigurement versus practices of self-representations online. JOMEC Journal(12), pp. 128-144. (10.18573/jomec.172)
- Garrisi, D. 2017. The Victorian press coverage of the 1842 report on child labour. The metamorphosis of images. Early Popular Visual Culture 15(4), pp. 442-478. (10.1080/17460654.2017.1406812)
- Johanssen, J. and Garrisi, D. 2017. “I am burning, I am burning”: affect, acid attacks and British tabloid newspapers. Journalism Studies 20(4), pp. 463-479. (10.1080/1461670X.2017.1389294)
- Garrisi, D. 2017. Reading dermatology in the Victorian newspaper. The performance of medical vocabulary in The Times correspondence column. Journal of Science Communication 16(3), pp. 1-13. (10.22323/2.16030212)
- Garrisi, D. 2015. On the skin of a soldier: The story of flogging. Clinics in Dermatology 33(6), pp. 693-696. (10.1016/j.clindermatol.2014.12.018)
Book sections
- Garrisi, D. and Huang, J. 2024. Teaching investigative journalism in a transnational university in China. In: Mutsvairo, B., Bebawi, S. and Borges-Rey, E. eds. The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South. Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions Routledge
- Garrisi, D. and Kuang, X. 2022. Conclusion. In: Garrisi, D. and Kuang, X. eds. Journalism Pedagogy in Transitional Countries.. Palgrave Studies in Journalism and the Global South Cham: Palgrave, pp. 221-226., (10.1007/978-3-031-13749-5_10)
- Garrisi, D., Kuang, X. and Reis, C. 2022. Introduction. In: Garrisi, D. and Kuang, X. eds. Journalism Pedagogy in Transitional Countries. Palgrave Studies in Journalism and the Global South. Cham: Palgrave, pp. 1-17., (10.1007/978-3-031-13749-5_1)
- Garrisi, D. and Johanssen, J. 2020. Introduction. In: Johanssen, J. and Garrisi, D. eds. Disability, Media, and Representations Other Bodies. New York: Routledge, pp. 1-18., (10.4324/9780429469244)
Books
- Garrisi, D. 2024. Reporting skin and the wounded body in Victorian Britain. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (10.1007/978-3-031-75368-8)
- Garrisi, D. and Kuang, X. eds. 2022. Journalism pedagogy in transitional countries. Palgrave Studies in Journalism and the Global South. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Johanssen, J. and Garrisi, D. eds. 2020. Disability, media, and representations: Other bodies. Routledge.
Monographs
- Garrisi, D., Janciute, L. and Johanssen, J. 2018. Appearance, discrimination and the media: Portraying facial disfigurement fairly in the news. Project Report. [Online]. London: University of Westminster Press. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv5vdf07
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