Nefeli Misuraca was born in Rome where she graduated in Literature at la Sapienza. She studied at Yale University where, after completing a PhD in literature and art, she taught literature and worked as a research assistant in two research centers. At the Yale Child Study Center, she worked on juvenile crime prevention and at the PACE Center she developed courses in art thanks to a federal grant. The daughter of a film director, she has been working as a screenwriter and editor for cinema and television. Many of the films she either edited or collaborated to were featured in major international film festivals (Berlin, Rotterdam, Pesaro). She has been art correspondent for the Cyprus Mail and collaborates with il Manifesto writing on the relationship between television and society. She has been invited to three Ted talks and to other conferences on cinema, art and literature. She has been professor of Anthropology of Art at la Sapienza, of Art History and Cultural Studies at Frederick University (Cyprus) and she now teaches in three American Universities in Rome. She teaches literature at John Cabot and Art at Temple and at Loyola.
