Michele Guerra

Michele Guerra (born 19 January 1982) is an Italian academic and politician, Mayor of Parma since 2022.

Biography Guerra graduated cum laude in modern literature at the University of Parma in 2004, where he then obtained a PhD in history of art and entertainment by discussing a thesis on the representation of rural classes in Italian cinema from fascism to the 1970s.

From 2009 to 2011 he was adjunct professor of history and criticism of cinema in the course of written and hypertext communication sciences at the University of Parma, while from 2011 to 2015 he was a researcher of cinema, photography and television at the same university. After being associate professor from 2015 to 2018, he has held the role of full professor since 2018. After obtaining 44.18% of the votes in the first round, he defeats the former mayor Pietro Vignali supported by the center-right with 66% of the votes in the ballot, being elected mayor.