Beyond Catastrophes

Simona Busni is Associate Professor at the University of Catania. She has published widely in national and international journals. She is the author of three books: La voce delle donne. Le sconosciute del melodramma, da Galatea a Lucia Bosè (2018), Michelangelo Antonioni. L’alienista scettico (2019), which received the Limina Award 2020 for Best Italian Film Studies Book, and Tre regine per una corona. ‘The Crown’ e la nuova era del royal biopic (2024). She is Associate PI of the Research Project of National Relevance ‘CAOS — Catastrophes of Southern Italy. Photogénie and Remediation of Natural Disasters’ (PRIN 2022 PNRR).

Angela Maiello is Senior Researcher at the University of Calabria. She is the author of L’archivio in rete (2015), ‘Gomorra’ — La serie: la famiglia, il potere, lo sguardo del male (2016), and Mondi in serie: l’epoca postmediale delle serie tv (2020). She has co-edited the volumes Virale: il presente al tempo dell’epidemia (2020) and Quasi viventi: il mondo digitale dalla A alla Z (2024). She is the director of Repetita, a book series focused on television series, and serves as coordinator of the editorial board of the scientific journal Fata Morgana. She is the PI of the Research Project of National Relevance ‘CAOS — Catastrophes of Southern Italy: Photogénie and Remediation of Natural Disasters’ (PRIN 2022 PNRR).