COURSES TAUGHT FROM 1997 TO 2023

Before teaching at Roma Tre University, Anna Lisa Tota taught at numerous Italian and European universities. In Italy, from 1997 to 2001, she worked as a contract professor at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy at the University of Ferrara alongside Laura Balbo. She also taught at the Social Work Programme at the University of Milan’s Bosisio Parini campus, at the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Udine, and at the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical, and Natural Sciences at the University of Milan. During these early years, she developed a strong passion for teaching, focused on enhancing students’ skills.

From 2002 to 2004, she worked as a lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Pavia, teaching courses on Sociology of Communication, Theory and Techniques of Mass Communication, and Techniques of Advertising Communication. In 2005-2006, she was a contract professor for Sociology of Communication at the University of Milan’s Interfaculty Degree Programme in Linguistic Mediation. From 2004 to 2018, she taught at Roma Tre University’s Department of Philosophy, Communication, and Performing Arts as an associate and then full professor, with courses on Artistic Communication, Public Communication at the Master’s level, and Sociology of Communication for the undergraduate program in DAMS (Arts, Music, and Entertainment Disciplines). For two years, she also taught Cultural Studies. From 2018 to 2022, she taught Sociology of Art, Visual Communication, and Sociology of Music at the Master’s level, and Sociology of Communication at the undergraduate level. Since 2023, she has been teaching Sociology of Art, Sociology of Music, and Sociology of Communication for the undergraduate program in DAMS.

In Europe, she has been an invited professor at the Faculty of Communication Sciences at the Università della Svizzera Italiana, where she taught Communication in Everyday Life; Gender, Communication, and Art; Gender and Media at the undergraduate level, and Sociology of the Arts in English for the Master’s in Cultural Heritage. She also taught Gender and Information in the Journalism Programme at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training of the Italian Television and Radio in Switzerland. Additionally, she taught as a Gastprofessor with Thomas Samuel Eberle at the Universität St. Gallen, Switzerland, teaching the course Kampf der Kulturen: ein soziologischer Blick auf die weltpolitischen Problemlagen des 21. Jahrhundert at the Hochschule für Wirtschafts, Rechts und Sozialwissenschaften and Sociology of Advertising and Communication, Social Values, and the Departamento de Historia de la Comunicación Social, della Facultad de Ciencias del la Informatión della Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She has also lectured at numerous Italian, European, and American universities