Filippo Trentin

Filippo teaches Italian culture and film history at the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on how cinema and literature engage with political and cultural transformations. His research spans Italian studies, comparative literature, and film, with a particular interest in how artistic forms respond to societal shifts.

His current book, Rome and the Margins of Modernism, explores postwar Italian cinema and literature, focusing on Rome’s transition from a symbol of fascist power to a city grappling with modernity and its marginalized peripheries.