Peppino Ortoleva

Peppino Ortoleva (b. Naples 1948) has been active for more than forty years as a scholar, critic, curator, at the crossroads of history, media studies, TV and radio authoring, museums and exhibits. He has been full professor of Media History and Theory at the Università di Torino. He is Professor Adjunto at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia. The Paris 2 University (Panthéon-Assas) has decided to confer to him an honoris causa Ph. D. title in communication. His most recent books are Miti a bassa intensità (Low Intensity Myths), 2019, a thorough analysis of contemporary mythologies and their presence in modern media, and Sulla viltà (On Cowardice), forthcoming, a study of the history of a “common evil” which is also a research on the history of values in the Western world. His activity as a curator of exhibitions and museums started in the early 1980s. Among the most recent exhibitions he has curated: Rappresentare l'Italia on the history of Italian Parliament, 2011, I mondi di Primo Levi/ Les monds de Primo Levi, 2015, Sulle tracce del crimine on the history of TV crime series. He is now curating, among other projects, the city museum of Catania, in Sicily.