Chiara Ottaviano, (
Ragusa, 1955) is an Italian historian, writer and film director.
Biography
After obtaining a degree in philosophy, at the
Università di Catania, thanks to scholarships of Einaudi Foundation of
Torino, has done research on
social and
cultural history in Italy, England and South Africa.
With
Peppino Ortoleva founded the[1]Cliomedia Officina, a company that operates in the cultural industry in order to combine historical research at the old and
new media and directing it since 1985. In addition to several audiovisual history, Cliomedia produced the film documentary
Terramatta,[2] a story on the writer illiterate
Vincenzo Rabito, presented at the
69th Venice International Film Festival and winner of the
Nastro d'Argento for 2013 Best documentary.[3]
Since 2000, she directed the Historical Archives of
Telecom Italia.[1]
In 2013, she founded the Archivio degli Iblei,[4][5][6][7] along the lines of
Archivio Diaristico Nazionale, and the latter associated in order to enable the digitization of diaries to make them available to scholars, historians and
anthropologists.
She has written numerous essays on the history, curatorial essays and prefaces to other historians.[8]
Essays
(in Italian) Chiara Ottaviano e
Peppino Ortoleva, Cronologia della Storia d'Italia 1815–1990,
Novara,
DeAgostini, 1991, (new edition I giorni della storia d'Italia dal Risorgimento ad oggi, 1995)
(in Italian) C. Ottaviano e S. Scaramuzzi, Le famiglie e l'adozione dell'innovazione delle nuove tecnologie della comunicazione. I modelli di consumo e la tradizione degli studi,
Venezia, 1997
(in Italian) Chiara Ottaviano, Mezzi per comunicare. Storia, società e affari dal telegrafo al modem, Torino, Paravia, 1997
(in Italian) Chiara Ottaviano (a cura di), Nuova Storia Universale. I racconti della storia, Torino,
Garzanti, 2004–2005 (vol. VI-IX)
(in Italian) Chiara Ottaviano e G. Dematteis, L'Italia una e diversa,
Milano,
Touring Editore, 2010