Main Focus
- Tourism & Hospitality
- Visual Culture
- Modern Italian Culture
- Media and Film Studies
Research Project
Palermo’s Villa Tasca: A Case Study in Tourism, Television, and Architectural Preservation
Curriculum Vitae
Nicholas Berrettini is a PhD candidate in "Italian and Film and Media Studies" at Yale. He completed his BA at the University of
Pennsylvania, his MA from Middlebury College, and earned an MPhil from Yale
University. His dissertation,
provisionally titled “Touring Italian Exceptionalism,” interrogates the
relationship between knowledge production, visual media, and Italian tourism. His
research interests span modern Italian culture, media studies, and hospitality.
Nicholas currently translates the magazine Prometeo liberato (Mondadori)
into English. His publications and writings have appeared in Italian
Quarterly, Scaffale aperto, and Il lavoro culturale.