Dr Nathasha Fernando works as a Lecturer in Media and Communication. Her research centres around forms of digital activism in Italy, transnationalism, feminist theory, affect theory, diaspora studies, podcasting, and theories of political belonging and unbelonging.

She is Course Leader of MA Digital Media: Storytelling and Production and Deputy Course Leader of MA Social Media and Digital Communication and MA Diversity & the Media. She is the co-author of Sulla Razza (On Race), a podcast that translates words and concepts on racial issues from the Anglo-American context to the Italian one. Sulla Razza, sponsored by Juventus FC, aims to deconstruct stereotypical imaginaries in Italy and produce new, complex, and diverse counterpublic representations. Each episode of the podcast intends to question situated perspectives and produce counternarratives.