Paola Brembilla

Paola Brembilla is an Associate Professor at the University of Bologna, where she studies television, serial narratives, and media franchises. She is the director of the M.A. program in Film, Television and Multimedia Production.
She spent a year studying at the University of California - Berkeley, and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Oxford Brookes University. She also served as a visiting professor at Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA).
Her publications include La televisione italiana. Storie, generi e linguaggi (with L. Barra and V. Innocenti, Pearson 2024), Franchise Mediali. Industrie, narrazioni, pubblici (Pàtron, 2023), and It’s All Connected. L’evoluzione delle serie TV statunitensi (Franco Angeli, 2018). With Ilaria A. De Pascalis, she co-edited Reading Contemporary Serial Television Universes (Routledge, 2018).
She is the Principal Investigator of the project “WokeIt. Investigating Representation, Inclusivity and Social Responsibility in Rai’s Fiction Audiovisual Productions” (PRIN 2022 PNRR).