Nicholas Berrettini is a PhD candidate in Italian and Film & Media Studies. Prior to Yale, he completed a BA at the University of Pennsylvania and earned an MA from Middlebury College. His dissertation, provisionally titled “Touring Italian Exceptionalism,” interrogates the relationship between knowledge production, visual media, and Italian tourism. Nicholas’s research interests span modern Italian culture, foreign language pedagogy, media studies, and media literacy. He currently translates the magazine Prometeo liberato (Mondadori) into English. Nicholas has also collaborated with the Italian journals Fata Morgana Web and served on the editorial staff of the film journal Cinema et Cie. His publications and writings have appeared in Italian Quarterly, Scaffale aperto, and Il lavoro culturale.