Nicholas Berrettini

Nicholas Berrettini is a Ph.D. student in Italian and Film and Media Studies at Yale University. He completed a BA in Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (Phi Beta Kappa) and earned an MA from Middlebury College.

At Yale, Nicholas hopes to explore his research interests, which examine the relationship between enhanced looking, tourism in Italy, and Italian identity. He also has secondary interests related to the role of technology in foreign language pedagogy and media literacy. Nicholas has collaborated with the Italian journals Fata Morgana Web, Il lavoro culturale, and serves on the editorial staff of the film journal Cinema et Cie.

His recent publications have appeared in Scaffale aperto and Italian Quarterly (forthcoming).