For best experience please turn on javascript and use a modern browser!
You are using a browser that is no longer supported by Microsoft. Please upgrade your browser. The site may not present itself correctly if you continue browsing.
Diego Semerene was trained as a filmmaker before pursuing their MA in Cinema Studies at New York University and Ph.D. in Media Arts + Practice at the University of Southern California.

Prior to joining UvA Diego taught digital media, film theory and fashion theory at Brown University, the American University of Paris and Oxford Brookes University. Diego’s research is interdisciplinary, traversing trans theory, queer theory, fashion history and Lacanian psychoanalysis. Diego is attached to the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, in London, and a film and book critic for Slant Magazine. Most recent publications include “Tailoring the Impenetrable Body All Over Again: Digitality, Muscle, and the Men's Suit” for The Routledge Companion to Fashion Studies (2021) and “Creampied to Death: Ejaculative Kinship in the Age of Normative Data Flows” for the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society (2021).