Costanza Salvi

Adjunct Professor and Tutor at the University of Bologna. She earned her Master’s degree from the University of Bologna with a thesis on the populist cinema of the Great Depression, focusing specifically on the work of John Ford, Frank Capra, and Will Rogers. She obtained her Ph.D. in English Studies from the University of Zaragoza (Spain), specializing in Transnational and Cosmopolitan Cinema. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the representation of the US-Mexico border in classic Western cinema. Her research primarily centers on classic Hollywood cinema and its relationship with national and transnational contexts—within the field of American Studies—while examining the cultural exchanges involved at various levels of production and consumption. Main objective is to situate the subject of study within a contemporary theoretical framework to reveal its complexity. She has authored numerous publications in academic journals and anthologies and presented research output in numerous conferences in Italy and internationally. She is a member of the SCMS (Society for Cinema and Media Studies) and SERCIA (Société d’Etudes et de Recherche sur le Cinéma Anglophone). Go to the Curriculum vitae