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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3833-6840

Massimiliano Coviello is an associate professor of Film and Television (scientific-disciplinary sector: PEMM-01/B) at LINK Campus University, where he teaches in the Bachelor’s Degree in DAMS – Audiovisual and Theater Production (L-3) and in the Master’s Degree in Communication Technologies and Languages (LM-59). He is a member of the teaching staff of the PhD in Human Sciences for Innovation, Inclusion, and Sustainability. He is a member of Link LAB (Social Research Laboratory) and the Quality Assurance Group of the Department of Human Sciences.

In 2012, he earned a Ph.D. in Visual Representation Studies from the Italian Institute of Human Sciences. In 2013, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Siena. From 2019 to 2021, he was a researcher at LINK Campus University, where he currently serves as an associate professor.

His work focuses on media languages, particularly from a narrative perspective and through the analysis of forms of representation, with a special emphasis on film and long-running fictional series. He has conducted various research projects on the relationship between trauma, cultural memory, and media narratives; on the representation of migration in Italian cinema; and on the construction of communities and imaginaries through contemporary television series.

He has always combined his research with teaching and outreach activities. He teaches courses and seminars on film and media at several Italian universities, art academies, higher education institutions for the arts, and secondary schools.

He collaborates, even in a coordinating capacity, with the editorial boards of numerous scientific, cultural, and film criticism journals, including “Fata Morgana. Quadrimestrale di cinema e visioni,” “K. Revue trans-européenne de philosophie et arts,” “Visual Ethnography,” “Carte Semiotiche. Rivista Internazionale di Semiotica e Teoria dell’Immagine,” and “Fata Morgana Web.”

He participated in nationally and European-funded research projects focused on participatory processes, the performing arts, film and visual culture, media education, and popular culture.

Tra le sue principali pubblicazioni figurano le monografie “La rivincita dei falliti. Maschere e antieroi in Better Call Saul” (Edizioni Estemporanee, 2023), “Comunità seriali. Mondi narrati ed esperienze mediali nelle serie televisive” (Meltemi, 2022), “Sensibilità e potere. Il cinema di Pablo Larraín” (con F. Zucconi, Pellegrini, 2017) e “Testimoni di guerra. Cinema, memoria, archivio” (Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2015).

His major publications include the monographs  “La rivincita dei falliti. Maschere e antieroi in Better Call Saul” (Edizioni Estemporanee, 2023), “Comunità seriali. Mondi narrati ed esperienze mediali nelle serie televisive” (Meltemi, 2022), “Sensibilità e potere. Il cinema di Pablo Larraín” (con F. Zucconi, Pellegrini, 2017) e “Testimoni di guerra. Cinema, memoria, archivio” (Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2015).

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