Antonio Somaini#
| Membership Number: | 4445 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.univ-paris3.fr/m-somaini-antonio-176677.kjsp |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 - present Full Professor in Film, Media and Visual Culture Studies, University Paris Sorbonne nouvelle Paris 3
- Co-Director of the Research Unit EA 7343 LIRA (Laboratoire International de Recherches en Arts
- 2017 - 2020 Member of the Advisory Board of the IKKM (Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie) of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
- 2017 - 2018 Senior Fellow at the research center BildEvidenz of the Freie Universität
- 2016 - 2017 Visiting Professor at the University of Parma
- 2014 - 2015 Senior Fellow at the IKKM (Internationales Kolleg fur Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie), Weimar
- 2011 - 2012 Associate Professor in Film, Media and Visual Cultural Studies, Istituto Univesitario Architettura Venezia, University of Venice (Italy)
- 2006 - 2008 Senior Lecturer in Film, Media and Visual Culture Studies, Genoa University, Italy
- 2008 - 2011 Associate Professor in Film, Media and Visual Culture Studies, Genoa University, Italy
- 2002 - 2006 Assistant Professor in Aesthetics and Visual Culture Studies, Polytechnic School and Catholic University of Milan, Italy
Fields of Scholarship
- Film History
- Film Theory
- Film Philosophy
- Media Theory
- Media Philosophy
- Media Aesthetics
- Aesthetics
- Visual Culture Studies
- Bildwissenschaft
- History and Theory of Photography
- Modern Art
- Contemporary Art
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Prize Limina for the best book on film studies published in Italy in 2011 for the book by Antonio Somaini, Ejzenštejn. Il cinema, le arti, il montaggio, Turin: Einaudi
