Alessandra Seggi

LANGUAGE INSTRUCTOR

A Fulbright grantee and an award-winning artist, Alessandra Seggi is a multidisciplinary scholar from Genoa, Italy. She has designed and taught Italian language courses, as well as English as a second language courses for many years.
With a PhD in Sociology and MA in Media Studies, Alessandra works at the intersection of the Social Sciences and media. In addition to “Youth and Suicide in American Cinema: Context, Causes, and Consequences” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), she has published articles about the portrayal of suicide in both fiction and documentary films, and the sociology of film. She is also the creator, organizer and facilitator of the film series “Cinema with a Social Conscience: Italian Neorealism,” as well as the creator, organizer and moderator of the speaker series “Systemic Issues Around Youth and Suicide” at Villanova University.
Alessandra is working on a documentary, based on her book, titled “In Light of the Darkness,” which is half animated memoir and half academic argument, to visualize the urgency of a media literacy strategy to empower young people when watching movies. Tentatively titled “It’s a zoo: society illustrated. With rhymes and reasons,” her latest one-of-a-kind project (in search of a literary agent) combines traditional write-ups with rhymes and illustrations to explain the contradictions and mechanisms, at times in plain sight, at times hidden, integral to our social world.