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Diletta Cenni

Tenured teacher
Diletta Cenni

Department of Communication, Arts and Media
Faculty of Communication
Diletta Cenni

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In 2025, she earned her PhD in Visual and Media Studies at IULM University with a dissertation entitled True Crime Podcasting in Italy: History, Typologies, Perspectives, and Methodological Approaches. Her research explored the true crime genre in Italian podcasts, with a particular focus on production practices and narrative dynamics. She carried out research activities as a Visiting Fellow at the City University of New York (CUNY).

Currently, her studies focus on true crime television series, with a specific interest in digital platform productions and the role of crime reporting within the Italian media and television system.

Since 2022, she has been supporting the course TV: Models and Professions at IULM University, assisting with exams and classroom activities; in 2025, she was formally appointed as a teaching assistant.

She graduated with honors in Italian Studies and European Literary Cultures from the University of Bologna.

She has presented at numerous national and international conferences, and has written for academic and top-tier journals on true crime series, the presence of literature on television, and the relationship between true crime podcasts and journalism.

MAIN AREAS OF SCIENTIFIC INTEREST

Her scientific interests include the study of the true crime genre, with particular attention to the Italian context, its declinations in different media and its production dimension. In particular, he is interested in television true crime seriality, true crime podcasts, and the use of the television archive in the production of this genre.





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- Diletta Cenni, Way Beyond the Radio. Looking at the remediation processes in the podcast S-Town through the lenses of Gérard Genette theories, in "Status Quaestionis," no. 26, 2024, pp. 159-178. (Band A scholarly journal, peer-reviewed)

- Diletta Cenni, Daniela Cardini, Communicating humanistic knowledge on television, in Lucia Rodler (ed.), Communicating humanistic culture, UTET, 2024, pp. 67-87.

- Diletta Cenni, Down the Rabbit Hole. Dedications in the Works of Lewis Carroll, J.M.Barrie, and C.S. Lewis, in Journal of Narrative Theory, vol. 54, no. 3, 2024, pp. 285-312. (Band A peer-reviewed scholarly journal)

- Diletta Cenni, Exploring the Role of the Podcast Journalist in Italy: A Production Studies Approach, in Marta Perrotta (ed.), Podcasts in the Future of Journalism. Exploring Forms and Formats of Sound Storytelling in Digital News Media, RomaTre Press, 2025, pp.193-210.

- Diletta Cenni, The true crime podcast in Italy: history, types, perspectives and methodological approaches, Patron Editore, 2025. (monograph, forthcoming - planned release: October 2025)

- Diletta Cenni, Gender and literature on television: the case of "Writers of the 1900s" on Rai Play, in proceedings of the conference Faminae Agentes. Cultures, Arts and Transmediality, eCampus University, March 2025. (forthcoming)

- Diletta Cenni, Navigating Challenges and Expanding Horizons: The Online Newspaper The Post's Podcasting Success in Italy, in proceedings of the conference International Symposium: The Native Podcast, Institut Français de Presse, Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, December 2023. (forthcoming)

- Diletta Cenni, Alessia Casiraghi, True Crime and Television Archives: Mediation, Reenactment, and Self-Reflexivity in Post-2010 True Crime TV Series, in proceedings of the conference Media Mutations, University of Bologna, May 2025. (forthcoming)







Although IULM University takes all necessary care to ensure the publication of correct, updated and complete information, it is not responsible for the contents of the curricula published online on the Portal www.iulm.it. The holder of this curriculum vitae is the exclusive guarantor and responsible for the correctness and truthfulness of the information contained therein.