University of Bologna

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University of Bologna

PARTNERS

Founded in 1088, the Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna (UNIBO) is known as the oldest University of the western world. Nowadays, UNIBO still remains one of the most important institutions of higher education across Europe and the second largest university in Italy. UNIBO is organized in a multicampus structure with 5 operating sites and, since 1998, also a permanent headquarters in Buenos Aires: 11 Schools, 33 Departments, 12 Research and Innovation Centers and more than 84.000 students. The UNIBO team coordinates the project and serves as leader of WP1 and 3.

The activity of the University of Bologna are conducted within the Department of the Arts (DAR), the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DISI) and the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies.

The Department of the Arts (DAR) is the main research and educational cluster for disciplines such as visual, media and performance studies at the University of Bologna and the largest multi-focused Arts Department in Italy.

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DISI) is one of the top Computer Science and Engineering departments in Italy, offering a broad spectrum of expertise ranging from theoretical computer science to software, hardware and application design and development.

The Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies (FICLIT) covers a vast range of theoretical approaches and disciplinary areas within the field of the Humanities. Its research and teaching make one of the best departments of Italian universities in the field of the Humanities, according to the latest public rankings.

Research team

Monica Dall’Asta

Prof. Monica Dall’Asta is a scholar in Film and Media studies. Her research has dealt extensively with the history of popular culture in transnational perspective. Her work has particularly focused on feminist film history and theory, and on the role of montage for a constructionist concept of history. She is co-editor of the International Women Film Pioneers Project based at Columbia University (NY). She is the PI of the H2020 DETECt project.

Luca Barra

Prof. Luca Barra is senior assistant professor at Università di Bologna, where he teaches Radio and Television History and Digital Media, and a former post-doctoral research fellow at Università Cattolica, Milan. His research mainly focuses on television production and distribution cultures, comedy and humour TV genres, the international circulation of media products (and their national mediations), the history of Italian television, and the evolution of the contemporary media landscape. He is the author of the books Palinsesto (Laterza, 2015) and Risate in scatola (Vita e Pensiero, 2012), and co-editor of Taboo Comedy (with C. Bucaria, Palgrave, 2015), Backstage (with T. Bonini and S. Splendore, Unicopli, 2015) and Tutta un’altra fiction (with M. Scaglioni, Carocci, 2013). He is an editorial consultant for Italian TV studies journal Link. Idee per la televisione.

Paolo Noto

Federico Pagello

Federico Pagello is Research Fellow at the Department of the Arts at the University of Bologna. Previously he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Limoges and Queen’s University Belfast, and was a visiting scholar at King’s College London and Vanderbilt University. His current research focuses on the transnational and transmedial circulation of serial narratives, particularly in the crime genre. He has served as project manager for the European-funded project EPOP: Popular Roots of European Culture through Film, Comics and Serialised Literature (1850-1930) and Co-Investigator for the AHRC-funded Visualising European Crime Fiction: New Digital Tools and Approaches to the Study of Transnational Popular Culture. He is the author of a monograph (Grattacieli e superuomini. L’immagine della metropoli tra cinema e fumetto) and has published articles and book chapters in Italian, French and English.

Sara Casoli

Sara Casoli is Research Fellow at the Department of the Arts at the University of Bologna and Adjunct Professor at University of Udine, where she teaches Media Literacy and Transmedia Narratives. In 2019 she earned her PhD at the University of Bologna, with a project titled The forms of characters. Typologies, morphologies and relational systems in contemporary TV serial narrations. Her prevailing research interests concern popular seriality, television studies, transmedia characters and popular culture. She has published articles for international journals like Fata Morgana, Imago, Spiel – Neue Folge. Eine Zeitschrift zur Medienkultur, E/C – Rivista dell’associazione Italiana Studi Semiotici and many chapters in books.

Elisa Farinacci

Elisa Farinacci earned a joint PhD in History and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Bologna and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem respectively. She is currently a research fellow in Cinema, Photography and Television at the Department of the Arts (DAR) of the University of Bologna. She is currently working on a project investigating the ways in which the Italian national identity has been conveyed through the distribution and circulation of “Made in Italy” contemporary cultural products abroad. She is also collaborating with the Research Center on Media Education, Information and Technology (CREMIT) of the Catholic University of Milan. At CREMIT she is working on a research project focusing on the use of audiovisual products in educational environments and on the use of digital media in pastoral communication strategies. She is also curator of the international column Global Cremit: International Perspectives.

Luca Antoniazzi

Luca Antoniazzi is research fellow at the Department of the Arts of the university of Bologna. He obtained his PhD at the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds working on film heritage institutions, cultural policy and digitalisation of film collections. He holds an MA in Cultural Economics (Venice) and a BA in Anthropology (Bologna). Prior to his academic career, he had internship experiences at the Haghefilm Foundation (Amsterdam), ARRI archiving department (Munich) and the Belgian Film Archive (Brussels). Currently he works on the project F-Actor. Forme dell’attorialità mediale contemporanea that explores work and life of Italian contemporary cinema and television actors.

Maurizio Ascari

Prof. Maurizio Ascari teaches English Literature at the University of Bologna (Italy). He is the author of multiple books, essays and edited collections on crime fiction. His Counter-History of Crime Fiction (2007) obtained a nomination for the Edgar Awards. His research has recently focused on the development of the psychological thriller and on the 20th century metamorphoses of the Gothic.

Silvia Baroni

Silvia Baroni is Research Fellow at the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies (FICLIT) at the University of Bologna. She has a joint PhD at the University of Bologna and at the University of Paris-Est, with a thesis on the illustrated editions of Honoré de Balzac’s works. She is interested in: contemporary European Crime Fiction in a comparative and
transmedia perspective; European Novel of the 19th century, and in particular the works of Honoré de Balzac; the relation between Art and Literature; illustrated literature. She is member of the Italian association of Comparative Literatures COMPALIT, of the Société des Etudes Romantiques et Dix-neuviémistes (SERD) and of the Groupe d’Etudes Balzaciennes (GEB).

Ilaria Bartolini

Prof. Ilaria Bartolini is a Computer scientist, with strong expertise in the fields of Multimedia Data Management and Web technologies. She has developed and spread worldwide query models for searching and browsing multimedia collections based on both the automatic characterizations of the content and its semantics, together with efficient and scalable query processing algorithms for highly differentiated users. She currently is EU ICT Coordinator of the H2020 DETECt project.

Andrea Di Luzio

Andrea Di Luzio obtained his master’s degree at Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna with a 110/110 mark defending a thesis in Artificial Intelligence. He has in-depth knowledge of both frontend and backend Web Technologies, Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence techniques. He currently is temporary research fellow at Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering (DISI) in Bologna for the H2020 project DETECt with research topic: “Design of the DETECt Digital Framework and Web Portal”.

Donata Meneghelli

Prof. Donata Meneghelli is a scholar in Comparative Literature and Director of UNIBO Center for Literary Theory and Comparative Studies (Ce.TelC). She has strong expertise in the fields of narrative theory, intermediality, adaptation, nineteenth-century literature and visual culture. She is a member of the LACE European network and the steering board of the international PhD Programme in Comparative Studies at the University of Lisbon.