Marco Grosoli has been an Assistant Professor at Habib University (Karachi, Pakistan; 2016-2021), and a Research Fellow at the University of Kent in Canterbury (2012-2015, as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow), at Filmuniversität Konrad Wolf in Potsdam, at Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main (in both cases in 2022, as an Alexander von Humboldt Experienced Researcher) and at Università di Bologna (2023), where he also earned his PhD in Film Studies in 2010. Along with several academic papers and book chapters, he has authored an Italian-language monograph on Béla Tarr, and a book on the early days of French politique des auteurs (Eric Rohmer’s Film Theory, Amsterdam University Press, 2018). As a film critic, he collaborates with various Italian film magazines, among which FilmTv, Gli Spietati and FilmIdee.

As a postdoctoral fellow in the FILM AND DEATH project, he is working on Catherine Malabou’s “destructive plasticity” and on the cinematic applications of this concept.