Research activities
Emiliano Rossi is a junior assistant professor (fixed term) at the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Padua.
After receiving a PhD in Cinema, Photography and Television at the University of Bologna (supervisor: prof. L. Barra), from 2023 to 2025 he worked as a post-doc researcher at the Department of the Arts within the project ATLas – Atlas of Local Television (PRIN 2020; P.I.: prof. L. Barra).
He achieved the National Scientific qualification as associate professor in the field 10/C1.
His research topics are mostly related to television and new media, framed on a historical, social and productive level (see Research).
He is the author of the book Schermi di trasporto. Storia, produzione, immaginari (Meltemi, 2023).
He collaborated with the project F-ACTOR – Forms of Contemporary Media Acting: Training, Professionalisation, and Social Discourses in Italy (PRIN 2017; P.I.: prof. F. Pitassio), contributing to the conduct of field interviews, participant observation, and the drafting of reports.
After a second-cycle degree in Cinema, Television and Multimedia Production from the University of Bologna with a dissertation on inflight entertainment, his doctoral research has focused on tv consumption in the context of transportation vehicles and related environments. In-Transit Screens: Production Patterns and Urban Imageries of Mobilities explores the editorial, commercial and media-related strategies implied in the provision of audiovisual contents within railway stations, airports, on subway platforms and at public waiting shelters. Special concern is reserved to the public and institutional communication content which lies at the core of those systems, on a production-oriented level.
Teaching and Tutoring Assignments
At the University of Bologna he currently teaches Organization and Management of Multimedia Systems (CdLM Incom and Citem) and he's class tutor for the Media Management course (prof. Di Chio).
Since 2018 he is tutor and co-organiser of the Mediating Italy in Global Culture international summer school, organised by Unibo in collaboration with five US Universities (Brown University, Dickinson College, The University of Michigan, The Ohio State University and Wesleyan University).
Since 2022 he has worked as class tutor, with teaching assignments, for the Economics and Marketing of Audiovisual Media course (proff. V. Innocenti and G. Pescatore). From 2023 to 2025 he was responsible of the Television Laboratory within the bachelor in Science Communication; he was also in charge of the seminars focused on the dissertation preparation and writing (second cycle degree in Cinema, Television and Multimedia Production).
Since 2023, he has been teaching Theories and Techniques of Radio and Television Language at the University of Padua (BA in DAMS). At the same university, from the 2025/2026 academic year, he is also the course leader for Photojournalism and Visual Culture (MA in Performing Arts and Multimedia Production). He has served as a contract lecturer in History and Theory of Television and New Media at the University of Bari “Aldo Moro” (academic years 2021/2022 and 2022/2023, with teaching activities hosted at the regional RAI headquarters), and taught History and Techniques of Television and New Media at the University of Udine (Gorizia campus, BA in DAMS, academic year 2024/2025). He has also collaborated with the University of Milan in the context of the 67th and 68th editions of the International Courses in Italian Language and Culture.
Since 2023 he has also joined Biografilm Academy (Bologna) for a slot of lectures on Audiovisual and Cinema Production.
International networks and attendance to conferences, symposiums and doctoral schools
In 2025 he completed a research and teaching fellowship at the Ecole Universitaire de Recherche Arts et Humanités dell'Université Côte-d’Azur (Nice).
In 2020, he was involved in a visiting fellowship at the Media and Communication Department at the University of Lund, Sweden, within the research project Mobile Socialities and under the guidance of Prof. Annette Hill.
As a speaker, he attended various national and international conferences; a full and updated list can be found in the Italian version of this webpage ("Presentazioni a convegni, seminari e scuole dottorali").
Publications, co-editorships and editorial roles
Please see the relevant section.
He is also the co-editor of the journal issue Tele-Archives. Reframing Archival Research on Local Televisions Across Europe (no. 28 of “Cinergie. Il cinema e le altre arti”, with G. Crisanti, M. Mereu, and P. Zeni, 2025), as well as of the volume Media Mutations 16. Unlocking Television Archives in the Digital Era (Media Mutations Publishing, with L. Barra, M. Marinello, S. Eichner, and A.-K. Weber, forthcoming).
He is managing editor and member of the Editorial Board of VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture.
Since 2022, he has been working as a peer reviewer for several journals in the L-ART/06 field, including Cinéma & Cie, Cinergie, Critical Studies in Television, L’avventura, Series, and Scholé.
Other academic roles
He has received numerous invitations to deliver seminars, doctoral lectures, course modules, and public talks, and has contributed to the organisation of various conferences, seminars, and study days (please refer to the Italian version of this page for all the details).
For the 2024–2026 biennium, he is a member of the Executive Committee of the Consulta Universitaria del Cinema, serving as the representative of contract lecturers, research fellows and doctoral candidates.
Previous studies and working experience
He completed his previous studies at Università degli Studi in Milan (after an ERASMUS exchange at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow), and in the city Conservatoire, where he was part (2010-2016) of the research network Musica perseguitata, promoted by the Spazio Europeo della Memoria Musicale. Since 2018, he has conducted tutoring and teaching assistance activities for the Department of the Arts and within the Ministry of Education funded programme Raccontare e fare il cinema italiano. He is a member of the selection committee of Bellaria and Movievalley Bazzacinema film festivals and, as a journalist, he collaborates with some local editorial initiatives. He is one of the authors of the volume Il respiro del mercato, commissioned by Milan City Council. He also collaborated for RTI/Mediaset, both in the consultancy project Osservatorio dei successi e dei consumi culturali 2020 ("TV seriality" section) and as a meta-data pool member of video streaming platform "Infinity". More details can be found in the curriculum vitae attached.
Since 2020, he has been a registered journalist with the Italian National Order of Journalists.
Affiliations
2022: ICA, International Communication Association ("Media Industries")
since 2020: CUC, Consulta Universitaria del Cinema, NECS, European Network for Cinema and Media Studies and PA Social
2019: AISU, Associazione Italiana Studi Urbani
Since 2020 he has been a member of the EROI project, the open innovation platform set by Emilia-Romagna Region.
