PAOLA ZENI

She is a post-doc researcher at the University of Turin, where she teaches Fashion forms and languages. Since 2022, she has been involved in the project “F-ACTOR – Forms of Contemporary Media Actorship” (PRIN 2017) at the Department of Humanities of the University of Turin. Since May 2023, she has been involved in the project “ATLas - Atlas of Local Televisions” (PRIN 2020). She holds a PhD in Philology, Literature and Performance Studies from the University of Verona: her doctoral research focused on acting and stardom in Italian cinema of the fascist era, which is also the topic of her first book "L'amazzone bianca. Luisa Ferida attrice e diva nell’Italia fascista" (Mimesis, 2022).