Books
Articles
“When Americans Bought the Illusion of ‘Indoor-Outdoor Living’,“ Zócalo Public Square and What It Means To Be American, a National Conversation hosted by the Smithsonian and Arizona State University (17 Nov. 2019).
“The Vanishing Cow,” Antennae 24 (Spring 2013): 29-47.
Film criticism, contributor for Nonsolocinema.com (2004-2014).
Chapters in edited collections
“Bibliografia e Filmografia Critica,” Nel Segno dell’Horror. Forme e Figure di un Genere, ed. Michela Vanon Alliata (Venice: Editrice Cafoscarina, 2007).
Talks
The Black Experience on America’s Roads in the 20th Century, Zoom Event for the Society for Commercial Archeology (Advocates for America’s Roadside Heritage), 23 July 2023. WATCH FULL PRESENTATION HERE
Indoorscapes: Public Concerns in Private Interiors, Lecture for “Das Interieur: Räume des Inneren von Édouard Manet zu Njideka Akunyili Crosby”, BA in Architecture (convenor: Sarah Hegenbart), TUM – Technische Universität München, Munich, 27 January 2020.
Fear Thy Neighbor: the Contradicting Politics of Conflict and Cohesion of Fallout-Shelter Film Narratives, ASANOR Conference 2016: “Fear and Friendliness in the United States,” ASANOR: American Studies Association of Norway, 28-30 October 2016.
Inside/Outside, London Conference in Critical Thought 2016, Conference and stream organiser, Birkbeck School of Law, University of London, 24-25 June 2016.
Together and Apart: Black Auto(im)mobility and Nuclear Segregation in Interwar and Postwar America, Graduate School of North American Studies International Conference 2016: “Flows and Undercurrents: Dimensions of (Im)mobility in North America,” John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin, 2-4 June 2016
A Vista of One’s Own: Curating the Outdoors in the American Suburban Interior, “The Archive and Domestic and Private Space,” Royal College of Art, London, 10 December 2014.
The American Suburbs in Fiction, Lecture for “The North American City and Cinema”, MA in English and American Studies (convenor: Francesca Bisutti), University of Venice Ca’ Foscari, 23 April 2014.
Mapping the Line, Lining the Map: the Tube Map as a Form of Writing, Lecture for the RCA Line Studies Forum, Royal College of Art, London, 24 March 2014.
It’s Cool Inside: the Advertising of Air Conditioning in Postwar America, Centre for Modern Studies Third Annual Postgraduate Symposium “Advertising and Consumer Culture,” Humanities Research Centre, University of York, 31 May 2013.
Defending the…Home Alone: Domestic Warfare in Chris Columbus’s Film, Science Museum Lates on “Security and Surveillance”, London, 27 March 2013.
The House of Anxiety: The Frontiers of Domestic Inner Space in Suburban Post-War America, “Claustrophilia,” Nice Spread Collective: Experiments in Space, The Bussey Building, London, 2 March 2013.
What a Way to Go!, ICA Friday Salon: “Frenzy”, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 9 November 2012.
Rewriting the City: Reading Harry Beck’s Map as a Form of Writing, London Conference in Critical Thought 2012, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London, 29 June 2012.
The Vanishing City: The Decline of American Urban Space in Postwar Visual Culture, “Questioning Urban Modernity” International Conference, ARCAM Amsterdam Centre for Architecture, ASCA Cities Project, University of Amsterdam, 18 May 2012.
Dietro il reale: l’America senza veli di Edward Kienholz, “L’Opera Parla” talk series, François Pinault Foundation, Punta della Dogana, Venice, 20 April 2011.
Andrea Vesentini 