alex piscatelli is a pop culture researcher, writer, and host. she researches and writes about the ways grief is represented in various media—television, film, and popular music—and how audiences understand and interpret its representation.

she is an incoming mass communication instructor at menlo college and previously taught radio and podcasting at san francisco state university (sfsu). she holds an ma in broadcast and electronic communication arts from sfsu (with distinguished honors, btw) and a ba in journalism from san diego state university. she currently serves as the graduate student representative for the national communication association’s death and dying division.

alex writes and podcasts about grief, relationships, and popular culture at grief and media. she hosts a video series, grief and media project, in which she interviews people on the media that helps them understand and cope with grief. 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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