Sara Pesce

Sara Pesce is an Associate Professor in the Department of the Arts at the University of Bologna. Her research focuses on film history, cultural memory, digital culture, and celebrity studies. She has held prestigious fellowships including a Fulbright Scholarship at New York University and Columbia University (2001-2002), and a visiting fellowship at École Normale Supérieure, Paris (2004).

Education includes studies at Columbia University (Department of English) and New York University (Tisch School of the Arts). Her work explores Hollywood's Jewish founders, WWII cultural memory in Italian cinema, Laurence Olivier's legacy, and the intersection of digital media with ephemeral content.

She has authored/co-edited influential volumes like The Politics of Ephemeral Digital Media and Memoria e immaginario. Awards include her Fulbright and ENS fellowships. She co-founded the Italian Research Network on Celebrity Culture, fostering interdisciplinary scholarship on celebrity phenomena.

Her activities include curating public actor interviews with Cineteca di Bologna and contributing to academic networks. Teaching focuses on film history, literature, and performance studies.