Antonio Vitti

Antonio Vitti received his Ph.D. in Italian Studies from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). He is currently a Professor at Indiana University. His research has been primarily in the areas of Film Studies and Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature and Culture. His publications include articles on Pasolini, Scola, Wertmüller, De Santis, Rossellini, Amelio, Tornatore, Roversi, Montaldo, Rimanelli, Nanni Loy, and Nanni Moretti. He is the author of Giuseppe De Santis and Postwar Italian Cinema (1996), editor of Canadian Journal of Italian Studies. Special issue on Italian Cinema (1997), and co-editor of Amerigo (1999), an anthology of Italian American/Canadian writers. He is working on a book on Gianni Amelio.