Italian Studies

Alessandro graduated in Italian Studies from CUNY – College of Staten Island. He previously studied storytelling and screenwriting at Scuola Holden in Turin and digital filmmaking at the Digital Film Academy in NYC. Alessandro worked as script editor and screenwriter for the television industry in Italy (Tv movies, miniseries, series). He is currently at work on a dissertation titled Italy’s Television Renaissance. Writing long seriality in the 2000s, that investigates how long-form serial storytelling has changed in Italy and what factors and practices within television industry, technology and viewership have informed and defined such transformation. His research interests include: televisual storytelling, transnational television drama, world building narrative practices, transmedia production, cinema, comics. Primary Advisor: Massimo Riva.