Re Valentina Carla

Valentina Carla Re
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2267-819X
Valentina Re is Full Professor at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, where she teaches Film History, Italian Cinema and Comparative Film Studies. She earned her PhD in Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Bologna in 2005 and served as Assistant Professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice from 2009 to 2014. From 2014 to 2019 she was Associate Professor, and from 2019 to 2025 Full Professor at Link Campus University of Rome. Her research activities are characterized by an interdisciplinary approach and include film and literary theory, transmedia narratology between cinema and television, production and distribution studies, and the Italian and European audiovisual industry.
Over the years, she has consolidated extensive experience in the design and implementation of complex research projects supported by national and international funding bodies. From 2022 to 2025 she was Principal Investigator of the national research project Atlas of Italian Giallo: Media History and Popular Culture in Italy (1954–2020) (PRIN, Italian Ministry of University and Research); co-coordinator of EU-rope Through Films: History, Identity, and Policies (Ciak-EU!), funded by the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Chair; and Work Package Leader (“Knowing and Understanding”) of the CERV project (2023–2025) GEMINI. Gender Equality through Media Investigation and New Training Insights. From 2018 to 2021 she was Work Package Leader (project dissemination and communication) and Communication Manager of DETECt. Detecting Transcultural Identity in European Popular Crime Narratives, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme.
She is editor of the peer-reviewed journal Cinéma & Cie and the book series Narrazioni seriali, and serves on the scientific boards of several academic journals (Cinergie, Fata Morgana Web) and book series (Binge Watchers, Repetita).
Her publications include seven books, over fifteen edited collections or special issues, around forty book chapters and conference proceedings, and more than seventy articles in national and international journals such as The Italianist, Necsus, View, Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies, Journal of European Popular Culture, MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture, L’avventura, Cinéma & Cie, Arabeschi, Imago, Fata Morgana, Comunicazioni sociali, and Cinergie.
Among her most recent books: Che cos'è Netflix, Roma, Carocci, 2026; Peripheral Locations in European TV Crime Series (Palgrave Macmillan / European Film and Media Studies, Cham, 2024, with Kim Toft Hansen); Le belle donne ci piacciono. E come! “Cinema nuovo”, cultura comunista e modelli di mascolinità (1952–1958) (Diabasis, Parma, 2021, with Elisa Mandelli); Aging Girls. Identità femminile, sessualità e invecchiamento nella cultura mediale italiana (Meltemi, Milan, 2021, with Paola De Rosa and Elisa Mandelli); and Streaming Media. Distribuzione, circolazione, accesso (Mimesis, Milan–Udine, 2017).