Phd in MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS

email: roberto.degaetano@uniroma1.it
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Roberto De Gaetano is Professor of "Cinema and Critical Writing" and "Forms and Models of Italian Cinema" at Sapienza - University of Rome.

He has taught at the University of Turin and the University of Calabria, where he coordinated the International Doctorate of Humanistic Studies, chaired the Arts Music and Performing Arts Centre, and was the Rector's Delegate for Performing Arts. He has been visiting professor at the University of Chicago and the University of Paris 8. He has given lectures and seminars at several foreign universities: Yale University, Colgate University, Cuny Graduate Center, New York University, University of Chicago, École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

In 2006 he founded the four-monthly journal “Fata Morgana”, and in 2017 the critical journal “Fata Morgana Web”. He received, in 1997, the Diego Fabbri - Ente dello Spettacolo Award and, in 2019, the Limina Award for the Best Italian Book of Cinema Studies: “Cinema Italiano: forme, identità, stili di vita”. His interests have covered various fields: from the philosophy and theory of cinema to the analysis of authors, from thematic criticism to genre forms and the geography of aesthetic forms (with a particular focus on the Italian and American traditions). He founded and directs the "Fata Morgana Web" Summer School on film criticism.