Alfonso Amendola is an Associate Professor of Sociology of Cultural Processes at the University of Salerno. He is a faculty member in the Doctoral Programs of Politics, Culture, and Development at the University of Calabria and Innovation, Technology, and Communication at the Academy of Fashion in Milan. He serves as the scientific director and key staff member of several international projects. His research focuses on visual studies, avant-garde cultures, and the mediology of literature (on which he has published numerous books, monographs, and academic essays).

Together with Linda Barone, they act as the Italian representatives of the Punk Scholars Network; they direct the permanent seminar “Unknown Pleasures”; they coordinate the “Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse and Sociology” series for Cambridge Scholars Publishing and have co-edited several works, including Our Vision Touched the Sky: Fenomenologia dei Joy Division  (Rome, 2021), Seriality Across Narrations, Languages and Mass Consumption: To Be Continued (Cambridge, 2019), Edgar Allan Poe Across Disciplines, Genres and Languages (Cambridge, 2018), Far Above the World: David Bowie tra consumi culturali e analisi del discorso (Salerno, 2017).

In addition to his academic work, he is involved in cultural management and journalism, collaborating with the newspaper Il Mattinoand Rai TV.

Anarchy, Zen, and dandyism have always been the foundation of his thought.