Resumé

Projects

October 2022 - present

THE DESIRABLE DIGITALISATION PROJECT

I am working on the ‘Desirable Digitalisation: An Intersectional Approach’ project, a €2 million grant funded by the German foundation Stiftung Mercator.

Feb 2023 - present

THE IN-DEPTH EU AI ACT TOOLKIT

I am the Principal Investigator on a project funded by Ammagamma, an Italian AI service-provider. The project's primary goal is to create a tool that helps AI companies create products that conform to the EU AI act. It is oriented primarily towards Project Managers on AI projects and other roles that take a global view. Ammagamma will be creating the tool, and CFI helping them interpret the EU AI act and supplying the conceptual framework for the tool. The project is committed to an in-depth response to regulation that goes beyond mere compliance by working towards a pro-justice and sustainable future with AI.

THE GENDER AND TECHNOLOGY PROJECT

2020-2022

The project’s collaboration with a big tech industry partner provides the AI sector with practical tools for creating more equitable AI informed by intersectional feminist knowledge. It aims to bridge the gap that exists between theoretical research on AI’s gendered impact and technological innovation in the AI sector.

2017 - 2018

GENDER AND CULTURES OF EQUALITY IN EUROPE

International dual degree PhD (awarded without corrections) completed during thirty-nine months as an Early Stage Researcher for the EU Horizon 2020 ETN-ITN-Marie Curie Project “GRACE” (Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe).

Education

2015 - 2017

PhD, University of Bologna and the University of Granada

International dual degree PhD (awarded without corrections)

2012 - 2015

MA (Hons) 1st Class Degree from the University of Edinburgh

French with English Literature, Distinction in Spoken French

Publications

BOOKS

• (2026) What If We Got AI Right? How to reject the apocalypse and build an ethical future. Profile Books.

• (2026) Drage, Eleanor and Kerry McInerney. Reprogram: Why the Tech Industry is Broken and How Feminism Can Transform It. Princeton UP.

• (2023) The Planetary Humanism of Women’s Science Fiction: An Experience of the Impossible, Routledge.

• (2023) The Good Robot: Feminist Voices on the Future of Technology. Edited by Eleanor Drage and Kerry McInerney. Theory in the New Humanities series, ed. Rosi Braidotti. Bloomsbury Academic.

In this lively, accessible, and wide-ranging volume, twenty leading scholars and technologists tell us, what is good technology? Is ‘good’ technology even possible? And what is feminism contributing? Based on interviews with University of Cambridge researchers Dr Eleanor Drage and Dr Kerry Mackereth, The Good Robot: Interviews with Leading Thinkers on Feminism and Technology is a collection of extended interviews from the podcast consituting original work from 35 leading feminist thinkers and technologists.

• (2023) Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data and Intelligent Machines. Edited by Eleanor Drage and Kerry McInerney. Oxford University Press.

A crucial collection for anyone, across academic disciplines and beyond the academy, concerned with the ways in which AI can exacerbate existing social and epistemic injustices (forthcoming, Oxford University Press).

PAPERS

• “The 'Diversity Fix': Why AI Won't Solve Sexism and Racism in Hiring” for the Sage International Handbook of Gender (forthcoming 2026).

• “A Toolkit for Compliance, a Toolkit for Justice: Drawing on Cross-sectoral Expertise to Develop a Pro-justice EU AI Act Toolkit”, ACM FAccT (June 2025).

• “The EU AI act in development practice: a pro-justice approach” AI & Ethics 6, 6 (2026).

• “Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world”, The Guardian, August 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/02/billionaire-big-tech-frugal-elon-musk-innovation

• “AI, journalism, and critical AI literacy: Exploring journalists’ perspectives on AI and responsible reporting” AI & Society (June 2025).

• Curiosity killed the cat? From a masculinized ‘frontier mindset’ to ethical curiosity in AI engineering, AI & SOCIETY, 2025-08.

• A Toolkit for Compliance, a Toolkit for Justice: Drawing on Cross-sectoral Expertise to Develop a Pro-justice EU AI Act Toolkit, 2025-06-23, Tomasz Hollanek; Yulu Pi; Cosimo Fiorini; Virginia Vignali; Dorian Peters; Eleanor Drage

• Evaluating Fairness in Transaction Fraud Models: Fairness Metrics, Bias Audits, and Challenges, 2024-11-14, Parameswaran Kamalaruban; Yulu Pi; Stuart Burrell; Eleanor Drage; Piotr Skalski; Jason Wong; David Sutton

• The Performativity of AI-powered Event Detection: How AI Creates a Racialized Protest and Why Looking for Bias Is Not a Solution, Science, Technology, & Human Values

2024-09, Eleanor Drage; Federica Frabetti

• Tech workers’ perspectives on ethical issues in AI development: Foregrounding feminist approaches, Big Data & Society, 2024-03, Jude Browne; Eleanor Drage; Kerry McInerney.

• With Federica Frabetti: “AI that Matters: A Feminist Approach to the Study of Intelligent Machines”, Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data and Intelligent Machines (OUP 2023).

• With Federica Frabetti: “Copies Without an Original: the Performativity of Biometrics at Border Control”, Theory, Culture and Society 30, 4 (2023)

• With Federica Frabetti: “The Performativity of AI Protest Recognition: Predictive Policing and Why Looking for ‘Bias’ is Not a Solution”, Science, Technology, & Human Values (2023).

• “Who Makes AI? Gender and Portrayals of AI Scientists in Popular Film 1920-2020”, Public Understanding of Science, with Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal and Kerry Mackereth (Feb 2023)

• “Decoding Digital Prejudice”, Institute for Arts and Ideas TV, 3 September 2021, https://iai.tv/articles/decoding-digital-prejudice-auid-1878?fbclid=IwAR3h0CcFMhGUXQFA7E3d1nV35Ay7zlC-27et831wnVihSBUXG5X5XfcUgZs

• With Kerry Mackereth: 'Does AI Debias Recruitment? Race, Gender, and AI’s “Eradication of Difference”', Philosophy & Technology 35, 89 (2022).

• Performative Assemblages: Race, Gender, and Technology in Science Fiction”, Performing Cultures of Gender Equality, Routledge GRACE Series Volume 2, edited by Emilia M. Durán-Almarza and Isabel Carrera- Suárez, Routledge. (Nov/2020).

• “‘Bugs’, ‘Broken Binaries’, and Malware: Investigating Gender and the Human in Science Fiction’s Depictions of Technological Malfunction”, Investigating Cultures of Gender Equality, Routledge GRACE Series, Volume 3. (Feb/2021).

• “Making Ends Meet in a Superintelligent Slum: Artificial Intelligence and Economic Precarity in Nicoletta Vallorani’s Il Cuore Finto di DR”, Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research (FAFNIR). (Jun/2020).

• “A Geocritical Exploration of ‘Racial’ and Gendered Spaces in Contemporary Science Fiction”. Women’s Voices and Genealogies in Literary Studies in English. Cambridge Scholars, 2019, pp. 180-192.

• “Science, Myth, and Spirits: Re-inventions of Science Fiction by Women of Colour Writers, Between Africa, Europe and the Caribbean”. Studies on Home and Community Science, vol. 11, no. 2, 2018, pp. 77-85.

• “A Virtual Ever-After: Utopia, Race, and Gender in Black Mirror's ‘San Junipero’”. Black Mirror and Critical Media Theory, edited by Angela M. Cirucci and Barry Vacker, Lexington Books, 2018, pp. 27-39.

• “The Challenge of Invisible Cities: a Calvinian Adventure through Literature and Contemporary Art”, by Bertrand Westphal. (Post)Colonial Passages: Incursions and Excursions across the Literatures and Cultures in English, edited by Silvia Albertazzi et al., Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018, pp. 6-21.

• “In the Hard Times, (and the Good): Solidarities Beyond Race and Gender in Critical Utopian and Dystopian Women’s Science Fiction.” deGenere: Small Islands? Transnational Solidarity in Contemporary Literature and Arts, no. 3, 2017, pp. 34-47.