Giorgio Bertellini

Giorgio Bertellini is Professor in Film and Media History at the University of Michigan. Born in Mantua, Italy, he studied philosophy in Milan and cinema studies in New York, where he earned a PhD from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts.

Bertellini has written, edited, and co-edited award-winning volumes on early cinema across the Atlantic, Italian silent cinema, and individual filmmakers (Emir Kusturica). A specialist in Italian and American silent cinemas, he has published essays in dozens of academic journals and in more than thirty anthologies. His latest monograph, "The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America" has been published in the University of California Press series "Cinema Cultures in Contact," which Bertellini co-directs with Richard Abel and Matthew Solomon. Le Monnier/Mondadori Education has recently published an Italian translation of this work (by Filippo Benfante) in the series Quaderni di Storia. Bertellini is currently serving as Associate Editor of the "Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies."

Translated into Chinese, French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Slovenian, his work has been supported by the Michigan Society of Fellows, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Fondazione Bellonci, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies (Harvard), the American Philosophical Society, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Follow him on Twitter @jaubert1900