Education
- MA, Italian Language and Literature, University of Pittsburgh
- BA, Italian Language and Literature, University of Pittsburgh
- BPhil, Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
- BS, Economics, University of Pittsburgh
Research Interests & Fields of Study
Daniel Turillo studies 20th- and 21st-century Italian media and society primarily through the lens of transnational cultural exchange. His research examines questions of form, ideology, nationalism, and italianità in relation to film, television, and popular music in Italian and Italian American culture. His current research includes projects on the politics of race in 1980s Italian post-apocalypse cinema and the representation of imperial space in Fascist-era newsreels set in Italian East Africa. He is also engaged in a long-running study tracing the circulation of Italian films and newsreels in interwar America by the Fascist government, for which he has conducted extensive archival work in Italy and the US. He most recently presented findings from this latter project at a colloquium on US-Italy cultural exchange at the Centro Studi Americani in Rome in 2025.
Daniel graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with an MA in Italian and a Master’s Certificate in Film and Media Studies in 2025, having previously earned bachelor’s degrees in Italian, Political Science, and Economics and a Certificate in Transatlantic Studies from Pitt in 2023.
Research Interests
Italian Cinema; Italian American Studies; Italian Fascism; Transnational Studies; Film and Media Studies; Postcolonial Studies; Food Studies; Digital and Spatial Humanities