Education and work experience
Trainings
PhD in Film Studies (2002-2006)
PhD in Film studies from the University of Florence. Thesis title: Color film in Italy: 1930-1959, supervised by Alessandro Bernardi. Jury: Francesco Casetti, Lorenzo Cuccu, Mila De Santis. Date of defense: 10/03/2006. With. distinction.
Laurea in Modern Letters (2002)
Laurea quadriennale vecchio ordinamento in Modern Letters at the University of Pisa. Dissertation title: Literature, theater and modern culture in Manoel de Oliveira: 1978-1985, under the supervision of Lorenzo Cuccu. Date of defense: 10/07/2002. 110/110 cum laude.
Work experience
From 2024 - Associate Professor of the History of Film Techniques and Practices, University of Lausanne
2022-2024 - Professor of Film Studies, Université de Picardie Jules Verne
2017-2022 - Professore associato in Film Studies at the University of Florence
2009-2017 - Ricercatore universitario a tempo indeterminato in Film Studies at the University of Florence
Competences
Supervision of doctoral theses
Defended theses
2018-2022 - Matteo Citrini, Un'archeologia dello sguardo panoramico. Tecnologie, media e cultura visuale tra Otto e Novecento (1870-1918) (An archaeology of the panoramic gaze. Technologies, media and visual culture between the 19th and 20th centuries (1870-1918), University of Florence, thesis defended June 9, 2022.
2016-2020 - Eleonora Sforzi, Il fashion film in Italia e in Francia: archeologia di un genere / Fashion film in Italy and France: archeology of a genre, University of Florence, in cotutelle with Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, co-director José Moure, thesis defended April 16, 2020.
2013-2017 - Theresa Christina Barbosa de Medeiros (in cotutelle with Miguel Serpa Pereira of the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro PUC-Rio, Brazil), Um cinema expandido: a experiência teórico-prática da Escola Livre de Cinema de Nova Iguaçu (An expanded cinema. L'expérience théorique et pratique de l'École libre de cinéma de Nova Iguaçu), thesis defended on April 26, 2017.
2010-2013 - Elena Gipponi (co-directed with Luisella Farinotti of IULM University, Milan), “È tanto più bello!”. Il colore nel cinema amatoriale italiano: storia, discorsi, usi sociali (“È tanto più bello!”. Color in Italian amateur cinema: history, discourse, society), thesis defended March 18, 2013.
Theses in progress
From 2021 - Sofia Lora, Verso una storia del Festival dei Popoli. Indagine storico-culturale e valorizzazione digitale (Towards a history of the Festival dei Popoli. Historical-cultural survey and digital enhancement), University of Florence.
Participation in thesis juries
2022 - Stefano Darchino, “Cinema demenziale”: Italian categorization and critical reception of American comic cinema from the 1970s to the 1980s, supervisor Cécile Sorin, Université Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis, November 19, 2022.
2018 - Paola Bommarito, Rappresentazione e prassi dello spazio pubblico: i dispositivi artistici nel contesto sociale e politico (Representation and praxis in public space: artistic devices in the social and political context), supervisor Emanuele Crescimanno, University of Palermo, March 21, 2018.
2018 - Veronica Chiarenza, Parodia dei generi, della storia e della letteratura nel cinema di Franco e Ciccio (Parody of genres, history and literature in the cinema of Franco and Ciccio), supervisor Clotilde Bertoni, University of Palermo, March 21, 2018.
2018 - Vincenzo Sansone, Video projection mapping e arti performative: una nuova macchina scenotecnica della visione per generare nuovi spazi aumentati (Video projection and mapping: a new scenic and technical machine of vision to create augmented spaces), supervisor Simone Arcagni, University of Palermo, March 21, 2018.
2014 - Valerio Carando, Il cinema spagnolo negli anni del franchismo: itinerari della forma e scritture di regia (Spanish cinema in the years of Francoism: itineraries of form and writings of directing), supervisor Maurizio Ambrosini, University of Pisa, December 16, 2014.
Assessment of doctoral theses
2022 - Doctoral School in Cultural Heritage, Education and Territory at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.
2020 - Doctoral School in Cognitive Sciences at the University of Messina.
2013 - Doctoral School in Audiovisual Studies: Cinema, Music and Communication at the University of Udine.
Journal committees
From 2020 - Scientific Committee of A Idade Maior. Revista sobre imagem em movimento
From 2018 - Scientific Committee of L'Avventura. International Journal of Italian Film and Media Landscapes
From 2016 - Scientific Committee of Immagine. Note di Storia del Cinema
2011-2016 - Editorial Board of Immagine. Note di Storia del Cinema
2006-2010 - Editorial Board of the online multimedia database AMATI Archivio Multimediale Attori Italiani (http://amati.fupress.net/)
2002-2005 - Editorial board of drammaturgia.it (http://drammaturgia.fupress.net/)
2002-2003 - Editorial Board of Drammaturgia
Scientific expertise (books, articles, conferences)
Articles
From 2012 - Peer reviewer for the journals Aniki. Revista Portuguesa da Imagem em Movimento (journal of the Portuguese Association of Moving Image Researchers), Arts (Éditions MDPI), L'avventura. International Journal of Italian Film and Media Landscapes (Éditions Il Mulino), Bianco e nero (journal of the Centre Expérimentale pour la Cinématographie, Rome), Cinéma&Cie. International Film Studies Journal, Cinema e storia. Rivista di studi interdisciplinari (Éditions Rubbettino), CiNéMAS (Université de Montréal), Cinergie. Il cinema e le altre arti (University of Bologna), Diacronie. Studi di storia contemporanea, Fata Morgana (University of Calabria), Imago. Studi di cinema e media (University of Rome La Sapienza and University of Rome 3), Immagine. Note di storia del cinema (journal of the Italian Association for Cinema History Research, LEA - Lingue e letterature d'oriente e d'occidente” (University of Florence), Schermi. Storie e culture del cinema e dei media in Italia (University of Milan), Studies in European Cinema (Éditions Taylor & Francis).
Conferences
2019 - Comité scientifique du colloque The Creative Process in Portuguese Film: Materialities, King's College London, May 9-10, 2019.
Dès 2017 - Comité scientifique du colloque Jornadas Cinema em Português, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã (Portugal).
Affiliations
Dès 2022 - AFRHC Association Française de Recherche sur l'Histoire du Cinéma
Dès 2015 - AFECCAV Association Française des Enseignants et Chercheurs en Cinéma et Audiovisuel.
2014-2023 - AIM Associação de Investigadores da Imagem em Movimento
Dès 2011 - AIRSC Associazione Italiana per le Ricerche di Storia del Cinema
2006-2018 - NECS European Network for Cinema and Media Studies
Dès 2006 - CUC Consulta Universitaria del Cinema
2015-2016 - SCMS Society for Cinema and Media Studies
2012-2014 - Gruppo del colore – Associazione Italiana Colore
