Alessandro Carrera

Alessandro Carrera was born in Lodi, Italy in 1954. He grew up near Milan, where he attended the State University and received a degree in Philosophy. He also has a Ph. D. by Publications in Music, Media, and Humanities from the University of Huddersfield, UK. From 1975 to 1987, he worked as a songwriter, music critic, magazine editor, and high school teacher. In 1987, he moved to North America and taught Italian Literature in Texas, Canada, and New York, until he became professor of Italian Studies and World Cultures and Literatures at the University of Houston, Texas. Carrera has published poetry, fiction, and books on philosophy, literature, music, and cinema. He has edited English editions of Italian philosophers and has translated into Italian four novels of Graham Greene and all the songs and prose of Bob Dylan. His latest book is "Fellini's Eternal Rome: Paganism and Christianity in Federico Fellini's Films" (Bloomsbury, 2019).