Antonio Catolfi is a full professor of cinema, photography, radio, television, and digital media (scientific sector PEMM-01/B, GSD 10/PEMM-01, formerly ssd L-ART/06 - Macroarea 10/C1). Since 2007, he has held a permanent position at the University for Foreigners of Perugia, in the Department of Language, Literature and Italian Arts in the World (since January 1, 2022), previously in the Department of Language Sciences and the Department of Human and Social Sciences from 2007 to 2021. In his research, he has mainly focused on television, digital media, social networks, journalism, production models of cinema and television, cinema and television professions, cinema of the Sixties and Seventies, political cinema, contemporary Italian cinema, analog and digital photography. A freelance journalist since 1991, he worked at the Television Production Department of RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana in Rome from 1988 to 2007 on various TV programs. He graduated in Sociology at the University of Urbino with a thesis on live television in journalistic communication (18.12.1993, grade 110/110) and specialized in Communication Sciences at the University of Siena on the role of the news producer (11.07.1995). He was a research fellow in the Department of Communication Sciences at the University of Siena (2002/2003). He holds a PhD in the History of Political Parties and Movements from the University of Urbino (12.3.2004) with a doctoral thesis entitled "The Political TV Forum as a New Form of Communication, 1960-1963." He was adjunct professor at the University for Foreigners of Perugia from 2001 to 2007 and then, from 2007 to 2025 at the same university, served as associate professor of cinema, photography, television, and digital media. Among the courses he teaches are: Digital Photography and Multimedia Production (Master’s Degree in Compsi, 2nd year), History of Cinema and Audiovisual Cultures (Bachelor’s Degree Lici/DHI, 3rd year), Workshop on Design Languages (Master’s Degree in Compsi, 2nd year), Languages and Techniques of Digital Media (Bachelor’s Degree Comip, 2nd year), Social Network and Gamification for Marketing (Master’s Degree in Compsi, 1st year). From 2018 to 2024, he was president of the Master’s Degree in Advertising Communication, Storytelling, and Image Culture (Compsi – LM 92) at the University for Foreigners of Perugia. In 2017, he was deputy director of the Department of Human and Social Sciences at the University for Foreigners of Perugia, and from 2009 to 2013, he was the Rector’s delegate for internal and external communication. A member of the Academic Senate, he was repeatedly elected as representative of associate professors from 2011 to 2013, and for the 2021 – 2023 biennium, then re-elected for the 2023-2026 triennium. He was director of the Master's in Radio Hosting and Digital Media in collaboration with Radio Subasio (2010/2011) and of the Master's in Information Architecture (2013/2014). He was a member of the examination committee for the final exams of the Doctoral School in Cinema in its Relationships with Theatre and Other Arts (XXIV and XXV cycles) at Roma Tre University (2014). From 2008 to 2013, he was a member of the faculty board of the PhD in the History of Political Parties and Movements at the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”. He then joined the faculty board of the PhD in Humanistic Cultures at the same university (2013–2016). For 2016/2017, he was a member of the examination committee for the final exams of the international PhD in Audiovisual Studies: Cinema, Music, and Communication at the University of Udine (XXVIII and XXIX Cycles) and later at the University of Nantes (2020) and the University of Oviedo (2020). At Dams, Roma Tre University, he was responsible for the module “Radio and TV Information” in the Master’s in Professions and Formats of Contemporary Radio and Television (2005/2006/2007/2008). He taught in the Master's in Communication and Information of Public Administrations (2003/2004), in Food and Wine Communication, Agro-food at the University of Siena (2004/2005), in Journalism at Iulm University in Milan (2003/2004) and in the Master’s in Journalistic Criticism at the National Academy of Dramatic Arts “Silvio d’Amico” in Rome (2012/2013/2014). He has held lectures, seminars, workshops, conferences, and delivered presentations internationally at the universities of Oviedo, Bergen, Malta, Nantes, Vilnius, Warsaw, and Tallinn.