# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alessandro-portelli
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:27:50.923Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alessandro-portelli"
name: "Alessandro Portelli"
slug: "alessandro-portelli"
description: "Alessandro Portelli 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."
tagline: "Italian scholar of American literature"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1942-07-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.66
  momentum:             2.647058823529412
  historical:           6.169009333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "اليساندرو بورتيلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Portelli"
    title: "Alessandro Portelli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Portelli"
    title: "Alessandro Portelli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Portelli"
    title: "Alessandro Portelli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Portelli"
    title: "Alessandro Portelli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alessandro_Portelli"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3610228"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump