NATIONAL PHD IN PEACE STUDIES

email: damiano.garofalo@uniroma1.it
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Damiano Garofalo is an Assistant Professor in Cinema, Photography, Television (L-ART/06) at the Department of History, Anthropology, Religions, Arts, Performing Arts at Sapienza University of Rome, where he currently teaches History of Television and Arthouse Cinema for the BA course in Theater, Cinema, Media, and Television Serial Narratives for the MA degree in Writings and Productions for the Performing Arts and Media.
He holds both a Bachelor's Degree and a Master's Degree in Contemporary History from Sapienza University of Rome. His master's thesis on the representation of the memory of the Holocaust in Italian postwar documentaries, newsreels and television programs was awarded by the Senate of the Italian Republic (Premio "Carlo Leuzzi") as the best Italian historical thesis discussed in the academic year 2010/2011.
After having obtained a PhD in Historical Studies at the University of Padua, with a dissertation in Cultural History on the history of early Italian television audiences, he worked as an adjunct lecturer at the Universities of Padua, Udine, Cassino, and Milan Cattolica.
In 2016, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the German Historical Institute in Rome, where he studied representations of Nazism in postwar Italian television and film programs. Between 2017 and 2019, he was a research fellow at the Catholic University of Milan, where he worked at CeRTA - Television and Audiovisual Research Center on a MUR-funded research project (PRIN 2015) on the international circulation of Italian cinema.
He has been active in teaching and research through visiting programs at some foreign universities, such as The Ohio State University, McGill University, Concordia University, University of Toronto.
In 2023, he was awarded the national scientific qualification (ASN) as a full professor for the area 10/C1 Theater, Music, Cinema, Television and Audiovisual Media.
He has published three books: Political Audiences. A Reception History of Early Italian Television (Mimesis International, 2016); Storia sociale della televisione in Italia, 1954-1969 (Marsilio, 2018); C’era una volta in America. Storia del cinema italiano negli Stati Uniti, 1946-2000 (Rubbettino 2023).