Since 12-1-2008 researcher at the University of Bologna,
Department of Music and Performing Arts
Degree in Foreign Languages and Literature (English Literature,
Magna cum Laude, University of Bologna). Doctoral degree in English
Studies at the University of Firenze. Sara Pesce has specialised in
English and North American literature and interdisciplinary studies
(cinema and literature).
1999 - 2000: Visiting Scholar in New York City, U.S.A.,
affiliated in the Department of English and Comparative
Literatures, Columbia University (September-March) and in the
Department of American Studies, New York University
(March-September).
2002: Fulbright Research Scholarship New York University
(Departments of American Studies and Film Studies). Research
Project on Frank Capra
Sara Pesce has worked on English modernism and film avant-garde,
and on the historical and cultural roots of American fiml industry.
She's author of a volume dedicated to the Jewish founders
of Hollywood (2005) and of a book on World War II cultural memory
and Italian Cinema (2008). She is editor of a book on Film
melodrama (2007) and does research on cinema and actors. She's
been teaching since 2002. Her classes include undergraduate courses
("Film Analysis" :2006, 2007, 2008 - "Issues of Film
Historiography" 2007, 2008), postgraduate courses ("Narration
and Representation through the Media": 2007, 2009), and seminars
("Issues in the History of American Cinema" 2002, "Methodology of
Film Criticism" 2003, "World War II in American Cinema" 2004, "The
Cultural Roots of Classic Hollywood" 2005, "Italian War film
since 1945" 2007, "Laurence Olivier: the Shakespearian Actor and
the Cinema" 2008)
She has taught at the Department of Music and Performing Arts
since the academic year 2005/2006 the following courses:
"Film Analysis", "Narrational and Representational Froms in the
Media", "Lineaments of Film Historiography", "Film History
Institutions"
