Simona BUSNI

Simona Busni is Research Fellow (RTD B) at the University of Catania. She taught History of cinema at University of Salento and Contemporary Image at University of Calabria, where she gained her PhD and was a Postdoctoral Researcher (2013-2015, 2019-2021). She furthered her research work in France as Visiting PhD Student (Université Sorbonne Paris 1) and Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3). She is author of many essays for journals such as «ComunicazioniSociali» and «Bianco e Nero». She was editor of Lessico del cinema italiano. Forme di rappresentazione e forme di vita (Mimesis, 2014-2016) and she is currently editor of «L’avventura. International Journal of Italian Film and Media Landscapes» (il Mulino), «Fata Morgana» (Pellegrini) and «Fata Morgana Web». She wrote two books, both for Edizioni Ente dello Spettacolo: La voce delle donne. Le sconosciute del melodramma, da Galatea a Lucia Bosè (2018) and Michelangelo Antonioni. L’alienista scettico (2019), which got the Limina Award 2020 for Best Italian Film Studies Book.