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Departmental homepageDr Peretti previously worked at the University of Richmond, University of Warwick, and The Ohio State University. He studied at Yale University (PhD, MPhil, MA), University College of London (MA) and Sapienza University of Rome (BA). He has lived in Italy (Tuscany and Rome), the USA, and Britain.
Dr Peretti teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in Italian cinema, literature, and culture more broadly.
Dr Peretti works on Italian cinema and cultural history, particularly in their transnational and postcolonial dimensions. He has co-edited volumes on terrorism and cinema, Pier Pasolini Pasolini, Italian cinema and Algeria, and Italian cinema and the former Portuguese colonies. He wrote a monograph in Italian, "Un dio nero un diavolo bianco. Storia di un film non fatto tra Algeria, Eni, e Sartre", he is currently co-writing with Luca Caminati (Concordia) a book on "Italian Anticolonial Cinema", and completing two further monographs on the collaborative work between Italians and Algerians in the 1960s, including Gillo Pontecorvo’s well-known film, "The Battle of Algiers" (1966)
"Un dio nero un diavolo bianco. Storia di un film non fatto tra Algeria, Eni e Sartre" (Venice: Marsilio, 2023)
“In compartecipazione. Italian and Algerian films in the 1960s”, Cinéma&Cie. Film and Media Studies Journal, issue 45, forthcoming.
“‘Everything is going to begin’: Pasolini, Antonioni, and Branca in the U.S. circa 1968”, The Italianist: Film Issue, 43:2, 2024
“Algerians in Rome, Italians in Algiers: before and after The Battle of Algiers”, "Film History: An International Journal", Volume 35, Number 2, Summer 2023, pp. 52-71
