Myriam Mereu

Myriam Mereu holds a PhD in Philological and Literary Studies from the University of Cagliari with a thesis on the language in contemporary Sardinian cinema. She is post-doc researcher at the Department of Humanities, Languages and Cultural Heritage of the University of Cagliari, currently involved in the ATLas – Atlas of Local Television project (PRIN 2020), and lecturer in Television and Digital Media at the MA Clinical and Community Psychology. Among her main research interests are the study of languages and minority languages spoken in Italian films; the role of cinematic voice in feature films and documentaries; Italian “cinema of the real”; the relationship between cinema and other arts; the introduction of cinema as an academic discipline in Italian universities; the representation of adolescence in films and tv series, mainly Italian teen dramas. She published numerous essays and articles in academic journals, including L’Avventura, Between, Fata Morgana, and Schermi. Storie e culture del cinema e dei media in Italia