Phd in MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS

email: fabio.tarzia@uniroma1.it
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building: Ex Vetrerie Sciarra
room: 305

Fabio Tarzia is an associate professor at the Department of History, Anthropology, Religion, Arts, Performing Arts of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of the University of Rome "La Sapienza," where he teaches Mediology (Bachelor of Arts and Sciences in Performing Arts), Sociology of the Imaginary (Master of Arts in Theater, Cinema, Dance and Digital Arts) and Sociology of Religions (Master of Arts in Cultures and Religions). He is director of the Master's degree in "Management for the Enhancement of Cultural Heritage" (University of Rome "La Sapienza"). His research path, which began with a degree in Italian Literature with Alberto Asor Rosa (University of Rome "La Sapienza") and continued with a PhD in "Birth, formation and development of mass and consumer literature" at the University of Trieste, started from the sociology of literature and the study of publishing and the history of books and reading (Books and Revolutions. Figures and mentalities in Rome at the end of the ancien régime, Milan, FrancoAngeli, 2000), to gradually extend, during his teaching at the Faculty of Communication Sciences at the University of Urbino, to reflections on traditional and digital media (Mondi minacciati. Literature versus Other Media, Naples, Liguori, 2009) and to the analysis of imaginaries conceived as major communicative, metaphorical and narrative systems capable of initiating and perpetuating collective identity constructions. Related to this framework is the special attention given to U.S. culture, studied from the matrix of Puritanism (Spaces (S)confined. Puritanism and Frontier in the American Imaginary, Rome, manifestolibri, 2015, written with Emiliano Ilardi). The current research direction refines and deepens the function of religious ideological systems in articulating the narrative and metaphorical mechanism of imaginaries, pushing almost naturally into the territory of the sociology and mediology of religions (Religions in the Metropolis. Between Fundamentalism and Consumption, Rome, manifestolibri, 2018; Benedict v. Francis. A history of the relations between Christianity and the media, Meltemi, 2022).

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