Academic Degrees: Studied at the University of Pisa; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Research Interests: Modernism; Film and Visual Studies; Questions of Landscape, Memory and National Identity; Italian Popular Culture
Current Research Projects:
Italian Culture in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility. Edited book on photography in Italian culture (with Sally Hill Victoria University of Wellington)
History, Landscape and Forgetting in Post-fascist Cinema. Book project
How to Make a Movie with Photographs. Essay on the use of stillness and motion in cinematic storytelling and the ethics and aesthetics of the photogram in Michelangelo Antonioni and Federico Fellini.
Svevo, Blogging and the Future of Literature. Essay