alex piscatelli is a graduate student at san francisco state university. her research focuses on the contemporary emotional landscape of media and popular culture. she researches the ways grief is represented in various media—television, film, and popular music—and how audiences understand and interpret its representation.. 

she currently serves as the graduate student representative for the national communication association’s (nca) death and dying division, and she has presented her work at conferences for the association for education in journalism and mass communication (aejmc) and the broadcast education association (bea).

alex writes and podcasts about grief, relationships, and popular culture at grief and media. she hosts a weekly radio show, grief support group, in which she discusses her research, television and film, and answers listener advice questions. she previously hosted dating or at least trying, a podcast exploring the nuances of dating and relationships in your 20s, which garnered tens of thousands of downloads and reached apple’s top 100 relationship podcasts chart.

she is also a freelance social media strategist and previously worked at e! news and in public media. her work has been featured in cosmopolitan, betches, and more. when she’s not researching or writing, she can be found making zines, dancing to ariana grande’s discography, or yapping at a coffee shop.

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