Alessandro Carrera
Modern and Classical Languages
Professor, Chair of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Director of Italian Studies
Office: 612 Agnes Arnold Hall
Phone: 713-743-3069
Email: acarrera@uh.edu
Alessandro Carrera is Chair and Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, where he is Director of Italian Studies. He has a “Laurea” in Philosophy from the Università degli Studi in Milan, Italy, and a Ph. D. by Publications in Music, Humanities, and Media from the University of Huddersfield, U.K. As a scholar whose production encompasses different fields, he is the author of several books in continental philosophy, literary theory, Italian and comparative literature, classical and popular music, the arts, and cinema. In addition to several articles, his publications in English include the edited books, Massimo Cacciari’s The Unpolitical: For a Radical Critique of Political Reason (Fordham UP, 2009), Italian Critical Theory (“Annali d’Italianistica,” 29, 2011), Music and Society in Italy (“Forum Italicum,” 49, 2, 2015), Massimo Cacciari’s Europe and Empire: On the Political Forms of Globalization (Fordham UP, 2016), Emanuele Severino’s The Essence of Nihilism (Verso Books, 2016), Massimo Cacciari’s Philosophy, Mysticism, and the Political. Essays on Dante (SUNY Press, 2021), and Carlo Sini’s On Political Virtue: Plato’s Republic and the Politics of Desire (forthcoming, SUNY Press). In the field of Italian cinema and film theory, he has published on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s African Orestes and Roberto Rossellini and the aesthetics of the sublime. He is the author of Fellini’s Eternal Rome: Christianity and Paganism in Federico Fellini’s films (Bloomsbury, 2019).
Critical Studies Courses
- ITAL 3305 - Italian Culture through Films (taught in English, papers in Italian)
- ITAL 3306 - Italian Cinema (taught in English, papers in English)
- ITAL 6306 - Advanced Italian Cinema (taught in English; papers in English or Italian according to student’s major)
- WCL 2352 - World Cinema
- WCL 3367 - National Cinema in Global Perspective
- WCL 4356 - World Film and Film Theory [to be offered Spring 2018]
- WCL 6354 - Studies in Global Cinema