Alessandro Portelli, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Alessandro Portelli

professor

Date of Birth: 08-Jul-1942

Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy

Profession: historian

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Alessandro Portelli (born July 8, 1942) is an Italian scholar of American literature and culture, oral historian, writer for the daily newspaper il manifesto, and musicologist.
He is a professor of Anglo-American literature at the University of Rome La Sapienza.
In the United States he is best known for his oral history work, which has compared workers' accounts of industrial conflicts in Harlan County, Kentucky and Terni, Italy.
In 2014-15, he was a visiting professor in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University, co-teaching a course on Bruce Springsteen's America.