Fiorella Montero-Diaz

Judge for Ethnomusicology Film Award

Fiorella Montero-Diaz is Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at Keele University, UK, and the Chair of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology. As an ethnographer, filmmaker, popular music scholar, sound engineer, performer, and artivist, she studies the use of music as a tool for empathy and conflict transformation; as well as intersections between music and whiteness, elites, new citizenships, queer worldmaking, and LGBTI musical resistances in Latin America. Her scholarly activity constitutes a technology to resist oppression, challenge the status quo, and provide information and knowledge about diverse communities’ worldmaking. Fiorella has published ethnomusicological articles in specialised magazines and books such as Ethnomusicology Forum, Musiké, Popular Music and Anthropologica, among others. Currently, thanks to a Global Challenges Research Fund grant awarded by the British Academy of Medical Sciences, she leads the project ‘Sounding a Queer Rebellion: LGBTI Musical Resistances in Latin America’ together with musicologist Luis Gabriel Mesa Martínez (Javeriana University, Colombia).