Georgina Torello

She received her BA at the Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay, her M.A. at the University of Pittsburgh and her Ph.D at the University of Pennsylvania. Torello's main field of research focuses on Silent Cinema, Feminist Theory and Theatre. Her dissertation, to be soon expanded into a book, explores the role of Italian Silent Cinema Divas into the cultural and scientific discourses of the first two decades of the XX Century. She recently published a long article on this matter in the Spanish journal Secuencias (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid). Together with his husband, Riccardo Boglione, she directs experimental videos and produces video installations. She works as a theater critic for the Uruguayan newspaper La Diaria. She lives in Montevideo.