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 been faculty at the University for Foreigners of Perugia, in the Department of Italian Language, Literature, and 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. His research has mainly focused on television, digital media, social networks, journalism, production models of cinema and television, professions in cinema and television, cinema of the Sixties and Seventies, political cinema, contemporary Italian cinema, analog and digital photography. A registered journalist since 1991, he worked at the Television Production Directorate of RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana in Rome from 1988 to 2007 on various television programs. He graduated in Sociology from the University of Urbino with a thesis on live television in journalistic communication (18.12.1993, grade 110/110) and completed postgraduate studies 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 Parties and Political Movements from the University of Urbino (12.3.2004) with a doctoral thesis titled “Televised Political Tribunes as a New Form of Communication, 1960–1963”. He was an adjunct professor at the University for Foreigners of Perugia from 2001 to 2007 and subsequently, from 2007 to 2025 at the same university, he has been an associate professor of cinema, photography, television, and digital media. Among his courses: Digital Photography and Multimedia Production (Master’s degree Compsi, 2nd year), History of Cinema and Audiovisual Cultures (Bachelor’s degree Lici/DHI, 3rd year), Laboratory of Design Languages (Master’s degree Compsi, 2nd year), Languages and Techniques of Digital Media (Bachelor’s degree Comip, 2nd year), Social Networks and Gamification for Marketing (Master’s degree Compsi, 1st year). From 2018 to 2024, he was president of the Master’s degree program 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, Rector’s Delegate for Internal and External Communication. As a member of the Academic Senate, he was repeatedly elected as representative of associate professors from 2011 to 2013, and for the two-year period 2021–2023, then re-elected for the three-year term 2023–2026. 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 Relations 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 History of Parties and Political Movements at the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”. He later joined the faculty board of the PhD in Humanistic Cultures at the University of Urbino (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 Television Information” in the Master’s in Professions and Formats of Contemporary Radio and Television (2005/2006/2007/2008). He has taught in the Master’s in Communication and Information of Public Administration (2003/2004), in Communication of Food and Wine and Agribusiness 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 given lectures, seminars, workshops, conferences, and talks internationally at the Universities of Oviedo, Bergen, Malta, Nantes, Vilnius, Warsaw, and Tallinn.