Cinzia Padovani (PhD, Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder) is Associate Professor with Tenure at the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts at Southern Illinois University. In 2018 she won a prestigious Marie S. Curie Experienced Fellowship to study ultra-right media and communication at the University of Loughborough, with a Secondment at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Florence. Dr. Padovani’s publications have appeared in numerous international peer-reviewed journals such as The International Journal of Communication, The Journal of Language and Politics, Discourse and Communication, Television and New Media, Javnost/The Public, among others. She is the author of A Fatal Attraction, Public Television and the Political System in Italy. Her research interests are in the field of ultra-right social movements media, alternative/radical media, Italian and European media, public service media, critical media theories.

Research interests: ultra-right social movements media; media and politics; alternative/radical media; public service media; critical and social theories