Demetrio Antolini (he/him) is a Ph.D. Candidate and Graduate Teaching Associate in the Department of French and Italian at The Ohio State University. 

He obtained is B.A. in International Studies from the University of Bologna in 2013, an M.A. (cum laude) in International Relations from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in 2017, and an M.A. in Italian Studies from The Ohio State University in 2020. In his current dissertation project, provisionally entitled Thinking with the City: Contemporary Neapolitan Cinema from 2012–2022, he investigates the representation of the city of Naples, Italy on the big screen. Particularly, to better understand how recent Neapolitan films respond to compelling socioeconomic issues and position themselves vis-à-vis contemporary urban life, his dissertation seeks to uncover why the city has become the preferred visual locale to represent issues that are relevant across Europe and the world. His project pursues three main questions: why has Naples become Italian cinema’s preferred cinescape (cinematic landscape) in the last decade? How do films represent the particular inflection of social and political concerns of contemporary Naples? How can cinema uncover the ongoing narratives and tensions of contemporary urban life? To answer these questions, he adopts an interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of film studies, urban studies, and Mediterranean studies.