Antonio Catolfi is Full Professor of Cinema, Photography, Radio, Television, and Digital Media (scientific sector PEMM-01/B, GSD 10/PEMM-01, formerly SSD L-ART/06 - Macroarea 10/C1). Since 2007, he has been a faculty member at the Università per Stranieri di Perugia, within the Department of Italian Language, Literature, and Arts in the World (since January 1, 2022), previously in the Department of Language Sciences and the Department of Human and Social Sciences from 2007 to 2021. His research has mainly focused on television, digital media, social networks, journalism, cinema and television production models, professions in cinema and television, 1960s and 1970s cinema, political cinema, contemporary Italian cinema, as well as analog and digital photography. A registered journalist since 1991, he worked at the Television Production Directorate of RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana in Rome from 1988 to 2007 on various television programs. He earned a degree in Sociology from the University of Urbino with a thesis on live television in journalistic communication (December 18, 1993, final mark 110/110) and completed postgraduate studies in Communication Sciences at the University of Siena on the role of the news producer (July 11, 1995). He was a research fellow at the Department of Communication Sciences, University of Siena (2002/2003). He holds a PhD in History of Political Parties and Movements from the University of Urbino (March 12, 2004), with a dissertation entitled “Televised Political Forums as a New Form of Communication, 1960-1963.” He served as Adjunct Professor at the Università per Stranieri di Perugia from 2001 to 2007 and, from 2007 to 2025 at the same institution, was Associate Professor of Cinema, Photography, Television, and Digital Media. He has taught the following courses: Digital Photography and Multimedia Production (Master’s degree, Compsi, Year II), History of Cinema and Audiovisual Cultures (Bachelor’s degree, Lici/DHI, Year III), Laboratory of Design Languages (Master’s degree, Compsi, Year II), Languages and Techniques of Digital Media (Bachelor’s degree, Comip, Year II), Social Networks and Gamification for Marketing (Master’s degree, Compsi, Year I). From 2018 to 2024, he was Chair of the Master’s Degree Program in Advertising Communication, Storytelling, and Image Culture (Compsi – LM 92) at the Università per Stranieri di Perugia. In 2017, he served as Deputy Director of the Department of Human and Social Sciences at the Università per Stranieri di Perugia, and from 2009 to 2013 as Rector’s Delegate for Internal and External Communication. A member of the Academic Senate, he was repeatedly elected as representative of Associate Professors from 2011 to 2013 and for the 2021–2023 period, and re-elected for the 2023–2026 triennium. He was Director of the Master's in Radio Hosting and Digital Media in collaboration with Radio Subasio (2010/2011) and of the Master's in Information Architecture (2013/2014). He served as a member of the examination committee for the final exams of the Doctoral School in Cinema in its Interrelations with Theatre and Other Arts (XXIV and XXV cycle) at Roma Tre University (2014). From 2008 to 2013, he was a member of the faculty board of the PhD in History of Political Parties and Movements at the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo.” He was later part of the faculty board of the PhD in Humanistic Cultures at the same university (2013–2016). For 2016/2017, he was a member of the examination committee for the doctoral program in Audiovisual Studies: Cinema, Music, and Communication at the University of Udine (XXVIII and XXIX cycles) and subsequently at the University of Nantes (2020) and the University of Oviedo (2020). At DAMS, Roma Tre University, he was responsible for the module “Radio and Television Information” in the Master’s in Professions and Formats of Contemporary Radio and Television (2005/2006/2007/2008). He has taught in the Master’s in Communication and Information for Public Administrations (2003/2004), Communication of Food and Wine and Agri-food at the University of Siena (2004/2005), Journalism at IULM University of Milan (2003/2004), and in the Master’s in Journalism Criticism at the National Academy of Dramatic Art “Silvio d’Amico” in Rome (2012/2013/2014). He has delivered lectures, seminars, workshops, conferences, and presentations internationally at the Universities of Oviedo, Bergen, Malta, Nantes, Vilnius, Warsaw, and Tallinn.