Chloé Locatelli completed her PhD at King’s College London in 2023, researching digital constructions of femininity across media formats. She has taught and lectured across the Digital Humanities and Culture, Media and Creative Industries department, as well as at University of Westminster, and University of Tokyo, Japan. Prior to this, she completed her Gender Studies Masters at the University of Granada, Spain and University of Bologna, Italy with the Erasmus Mundus programme. 

Research

• Sex, intimacy and technology
• Technological constructions of femininity
• Sexual commerce and sex work online
• Embodiment and HRI
• Posthuman theory

For more details, please see her full research profile.

Teaching

Gender studies, Feminist Theory, Digital Culture, Feminist STS.

Expertise and public engagement

Chloé is a contributor to Futureofsex.net, covering sex tech developments with a feminist perspective for this online publication. To date she has provided multiple pieces, most notably articles exploring sex work online, performative technology and Japanese influences permeating emergent sex tech.

Selected publications

• Devlin, K. & Locatelli, C. (In press) ‘Guys and Dolls: Sex Robot Creators and Consumers’, in Oliver Bendel (ed.) Maschinenliebe. Springer Gabler. 
• Kenneth R. Hanson, Chloé Locatelli, “Naughty Japanese Babe:” An analysis of racialized sex tech designs,Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, Volume 2, Issue 2,2024
• Locatelli, C. (2020) ‘Theorising Artificial Femininities in Sex-Tech: Previous Postulations and Future Directions’, in PLOTINA: Regendering Science. 28 January 2020 Università di Bologna: pp. 71–72.

Additional Academic Roles

Higher Education Academy Associate Fellow and founding member of KCL's Feminist Perspectives research group (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/feminist-perspectives).