Stefania Benini, Romance Languages
Italian 20th Century Literature and Film. Her research focus in Italian literature involves Medievalism, from literature to cinema and theatre. Other topics of interests include Dante, Italian women’s poetry, and literary translation. She has published essays on Dante and Tommaso Landolfi, and is currently working on articles on Amelia Rosselli, Pier Paolo Pasolini and cinematic adaptation, together with a volume on a “sacrificial” reading of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s works. She has edited an anthology on cyberpunk writers and translated in Italian works of Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Jack Kerouac.

Kevin Brownlee, Romance Languages
Medieval French and Italian literature. His research, publication, and pedagogic interests in Italian involve the Duecento and Trecento, from Brunetto Latini to Petrarch; and focus on issue of authority, identity, intertextuality, and the changing status of the Italian vernacular. He has published widely on Dante's transformative rewritings of the Classical poets (especially Ovid and Virgil), as well as on Dante's language theory. His current work involves: 1) the politics of authorial subjectivity in both Petrarch and Boccaccio, especially vis-à-vis their responses to Dante; 2) the construction of Italian literary genealogies tied to issues of cultural authority; 3) Franco-Italian literary/cultural inter-actions (13th-early 16th centuries); 4) the first-person voice in medieval Italian narrative and lyric; poetry and prose; 5) philology and literary theory.

Michael Cole, Art History
Michael Cole (B.A., Williams, M.A. and Ph.D., Princeton) taught European Baroque Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before coming to Penn in 2003. His research has focused on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century sculpture, painting, and printmaking. He is particularly interested in historical conceptions of artistic practice, and he has published studies on the use of sculptural materials, on art and science, on visual poetics, and on the formation of the artist in the early modern period. A former Rome Prize Fellow, Professor Cole is the author of Cellini and the Principles of Sculpture (Cambridge, 2002), the editor of Sixteenth-century Italian Art: A Reader (Blackwell, 2005) and the co-editor of Inventions of the Studio, Renaissance to Romanticism (Chapel Hill, 2004). Recent projects include an exhibition, co-curated by Madeleine Viljoen, on the early modern painter-etcher, a book, co-edited by Rebecca Zorach, on idolatry, as well as articles on themes of peace and war in early modern bronzes and on the reception of Leonardo's Treatise on Painting among late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century sculptors.

Rita Copeland, Classical Studies
Rita Copeland is Professor of Classical Studies and English, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor in the Humanities and Chair, Graduate Group in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory. Her work focuses on a number of fields and periods, including: medieval literature (English, Latin, French); intellectuals, learning, and literacy in medieval Europe; literary theory from ancient to early modern; the history of rhetoric from ancient to early modern. Currently she is working on representations of the intellectual in pre-modern Europe, from late antique rhetorical culture to late medieval university cultures and heretical communities. Other current projects include Medieval Literary Theory: Grammatical and Rhetorical Traditions, which is an anthology of primary texts, co-edited with Ineke Sluiter, and The Cambridge Companion to Allegory: Ancient to Modern, co-edited with Peter Struck. She is also a co-editor and co-founder of the Medieval Cultures Series (University of Minnesota Press), and co-editor and co-founder of the annual New Medieval Literatures.

Stuart Curran, English
He received his BA and MA from the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. from Harvard. Before coming to Penn he taught at Wisconsin and John Hopkins. He has held fellowships from the Huntington Library, the NEH, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Author of two critical studies of Shelley, as well as the standard bibliography on the poet, he was also for many years the editor of the Keats-Shelley Journal. His most recent critical book is a history of Romanticism, Poetic Form and British Romanticism, and he has edited the Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism (1992). Currently, he serves as section editor (1740-1830) for The Brown University Women Writers Project textbase and publications, of which his edition of The Poems of Charlotte Smith (Oxford University Press, 1993) is an early result; is preparing a CD-ROM edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for the University of Pennsylvania Press; and is writing a study of women poets during the Romantic period. A member of the Executive Committee of the Graduate Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory.

Emma Dillon, Music
Specialist in medieval music and manuscripts, the reception of medieval music. Junior Research Fellowship in Music, Christ Church, Oxford, 1995-1998. Emma Dillon's primary field of research focuses on French music and manuscripts in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Her work explores changing attitudes to the written texts of music during that period, and deals with issues of transmission and reception of music in the material form of the book, the different forms and functions of French notation, the visual or non-sounding dimensions of the Old French motet. She has articles in Fauvel Studies (Oxford University Press, 1998), and the Journal of the Royal Musical Association (1999), and forthcoming reviews and articles in Plainsong and Medieval Music and the Journal of Musicology. Emma Dillon is currently working on a new project that explores issues of sense and sound in thirteenth-century French music and poetry. Her book, Medieval Music-Making and the Roman de Fauvel, was published by Cambridge University Press in August, 2002.

Joseph Farrell, Classical Studies
Joseph Farrell (A.B. Bowdoin College, 1977, Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1983) studies Latin literature and Roman culture, focusing especially on Augustan poetry. His most recent book is Latin Language and Latin Culture from Ancient to Modern Times (Cambridge 2001). He is currently writing a new book with the working title Juno's Aeneid: Narrativity, Metapoetics, Dissent.

Fabio Finotti, Romance Languages
Intertextual and rhetorical strategies in Italian literature. His research explores the relationships among different national traditions, codes, media, genres, and social structures. He is the author of several books, including Sistema letterario e diffusione del decadentismo (1988); Critica letteraria e linguaggio religioso (1989); Una ferita non chiusa. Misticismo, filosofia, letteratura in Prezzolini e nel primo Novecento (1992); Retorica della diffrazione. Bembo, Aretino, Giulio Romano e Tasso: letteratura e scena cortigiana (2004), as well as many articles on literary theory and on Italian literature, from Dante to the XXth century. He published editions of Fogazzaro, Prezzolini, D'Annunzio, Prati, Aleardi, Grossi, Carducci. He is currently working on the rhetorical metamorphosis and multiplications of the 'self' in Italian literature, from the medieval stage to the contemporary writers. A member of the advisory Board of Lettere Italiane, Prof. Finotti is one of the Presidents of the AISLLI (Associazione Internazionale per gli Studi di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana).

Michael Gamer, English
Michael Gamer received his doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1993. He writes primarily on Romantic writing, particularly its relation to popular fiction and drama. Romanticism and the Gothic: Genre, Reception, and Canon Formation was published in 2000 by Cambridge University Press, followed by a Penguin Classics edition of Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto in 2002. The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama, edited with Jeffrey Cox, appeared in 2003. He has published a number of additional essays in Novel, PMLA, ELH, Studies in Romanticism, and other journals on collections, the novel, pornography, authorship, and dramas of spectacle. In recent years he has received the Ira Abrams and Lindback awards for distinguished teaching.

Richard Hodges, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Richard Hodges is the Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. A Classical and early Medieval archaeologist specializing in Western Europe, Dr. Hodges has been Director of both the British School in Rome and the Prince of Wales’ Institute of Architecture in London. Since 1998, he has worked extensively on archaeological and cultural heritage projects in Albania, including the creation of a large cultural heritage institute in Tirana and a new archaeological museum in Butrint. Named an Officer of the British Empire in 1995, Prof. Hodges is the author of 10 books on such subjects as archaeology and the beginnings of English society, primitive and peasant markets, and towns and trade in the age of Charlemagne.

John Dixon Hunt, Landscape Architecture
B.A., M.A., King's College, Cambridge; Ph.D., Bristol University. Taught English Literature, with special emphasis on its relationships with the visual arts, at universities in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and the United States. Former Director of Studies in Landscape Architecture at Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard). Author of numerous articles and books on garden history and theory, including a catalogue of the landscape drawings of William Kent, Garden and Grove, and Gardens and the Picturesque. Edits two journals, Word & Image and Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, formerly the Journal of Garden History. Current interests focus upon landscape architectural theory, the development of garden design in the city of Venice, modern(ist) garden design, and ekphrasis. Inaugural series editor of the new Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture (University of Pennsylvania Press), in which will be published his own theoretic study of landscape architecture, Greater Perfections.

Victoria Kirkham, Romance Languages
Italian literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, interdisciplinary relations between literary and visual traditions, gender studies, cinema. She is the co-author of Diana's Hunt, Caccia di Diana: Boccaccio's First Fiction (1991); the author of The Sign of Reason in Boccaccio's Fiction (1993); and Fabulous Vernacular: Boccaccio's Filocolo and the Art of Medieval Fiction, which won the Modern Language Association of America's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies for the year 2000. She has published articles on The Divine Comedy and more recently on the poet Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati, a Petrarchist in the family of early modern women writers, on whom she is currently writing a biography. Her edition with translations and commentary of Battiferra's poetry is due to appear in the University of Chicago series "The Other Voice."

Julia Lynch, Political Science
Her work focuses on the political economy of Western European countries. Her special areas of interest are Italian politics and comparative social welfare policy. She has been a research scholar at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and is a past recipient of grants from the National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and Luxembroug Income Study project. Areas of interest: Political Economy of Western Europe, Comparative Social Policy, Political Parties and Party Systems, Politics of Southern Europe, and Research Design and Methodology. Major Publications: The Age-Orientation of Social Policy Regimes in OECD Countries (Journal of social Policy, April 2001), Whose 'Gray Power'? Elderly Voters, Elderly Lobbies, and Welfare Reform in Italy and the United States (Italian Politics & Society, Summer 2000) [co-authored with Andrea L. Campbell].

E. Ann Matter, Religious Studies
She has been named the first R. Jean Brownlee Endowed Term Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Matter is a Lindback Award-winning teacher and a widely published scholar whose work encompasses both the history of the interpretation of the Bible from the Middle Ages to the present, and studies of women in early modern Italy. Her most recent books include two from the University of Pennsylvania Press, The Voice of My Beloved: The Song of Songs in Western Medieval Christianity (1990), and Creative Women in Medieval and Early Modern Italy (edited with John Coakley, 1994). She is also known for her critical edition of Paschasii Radiberti's De partu Virginis (1985) and is the author of some 40 articles and chapters in journals and books published here and abroad. A 1971 alumna of Oberlin College, Dr. Matter took both M.Phil. and M.A. degrees at Yale in 1975, and her Ph.D. there a year later. She joined Penn in 1976 as an assistant professor, became associate professor in 1982, and was promoted to full professor in 1990. Among her other prizes have been Yale's Whiting Fellowship for the Humanities, 1975-76, and two National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowships, held in 1979 and 1988. Another major assignment Dr. Matter held at Penn was to direct the Women's Studies Program in 1981-83 and during that time to interview, for the Program's Oral History Project, two women who helped shape women's presence at the University: Dr. Althea Hottel and Dr. R. Jean Brownlee.

Ann Moyer, History
Ann Moyer specializes in the intellectual and cultural history of Renaissance Europe, especially sixteenth-century Italy. Her current work focuses on the study of culture and the formation of cultural identity in sixteenth-century Tuscany. Moyer's previous work includes a cluster of three related book-length research projects with overlapping themes related to music, mathematics, and the relationship between the arts and the sciences in Renaissance Europe: Musica Scientia: Musical Scholarship in the Italian Renaissance (Cornell University Press, 1992); Raffaele Brandolini On Music and Poetry (MRTS, 2001); and The Philosophers' Game: Rithmomachia in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (University of Michigan Press, 2001). She is one of four Executive Editors of the Journal of the History of Ideas, and is Undergraduate Chair of the History Department.

Christine Poggi, Art History
Her graduate degrees are from the University of Chicago, where she received an MA in 1979, and Yale University, where she received her Ph.D. in 1988. She has been teaching twentieth century art and theory since she arrived at Penn in 1987. She is currently Chair of the Graduate Group in the History of Art, a member of the Executive Committee of the Graduate Group in Comparative Literature and Theory, a member of the Women's Studies Advisory Board, and an adjunct faculty member of the Annenberg School of Communications. Prof. Poggi's research and teaching focus on avant-garde movements and critical debates in twentieth century art. Her book, In Defiance of Painting: Cubism, Futurism, and the Invention of Collage (Yale 1992) analyzes Picasso and Braque's invention of collage and constructed sculpture and their interest in the relation of word and image. In her more recent work, she has become interested in the fate of Cubism and collage during World War I and in Picasso's ironic citation of classical sources and styles. She has also returned to the study of Futurism in two recent publications: These include an article titled Dreams of Metallized Flesh: Futurism and the Masculine Body, Modernism/Modernity (Sept. 1997), and an article on the Italian art journal Lacerba, which was associated with the Futurists and promoted the rise of Fascism. Another recent article focused on the work of contemporary artist Vito Acconci. Titled Vito Acconci and the Bad Dream of Domesticity, it appeared in a book edited by Christopher Reed titled Not at Home: The Suppression of Domesticity in Modern Art and Architecture. Her most significant current project is a book, tentatively titled Modernity as Trauma: The Cultural Politics of Italian Futurism. This book examines Futurism's ambivalent responses to modernity and to the profound crises it provoked in the intellectual class in Italy: These crises include shifting definitions of the nation and the public, unsettled class and gender roles, the relation of the human body to the machine and to urban conditions of labor, and the political consequences of a theory of elites.

Jonathan Steinberg, History
He has written on twentieth century Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland and has also prepared the official report on the Deutsche Bank's gold transactions in the Second World War. His teaching covers modern Europe since 1789 with specialization in the German and Austrian Empires, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and modern Jewish history. He has also taught graduate seminars in historical thought and method.

David Wallace, English
David Wallace attended Bletchley Grammar School. David first read Chaucer at 15 and subsequently fell under the influence of medievalists Derek Pearsall and Elizabeth Salter while studying for a degree at York (BA in English and Related Literature, 1976); he studied Dante under A.C. Charity and spent summers learning Italian in Perugia. He then taught at the Karl-Marx-University, Leipzig in 1976-7 and toured eastern Europe; his first two articles, "Inside East Germany," were published in the Catholic journal The Tablet. In 1977-8 he taught English in Piedmont, Italy, and worked on translating Pier Paolo Pasolini's Le ceneri di Gramsci (published Peterborough: Spectacular Diseases, 1982). In 1978, he began his doctoral studies at St Edmund's College, Cambridge. Following a Research Fellowship at Cambridge (1981-3) and a Mellon Fellowship at Stanford (1984-5), he taught at the University of Texas at Austin (1985-91) and then at the University of Minnesota, where he was Professor of English and Frenzel Chair in Liberal Arts (1991-6). At Penn he is based in the English Department and belongs to programs in Comparative Literature, Italian Studies, and Religion. He is also collaborating with Kevin Brownlee (French and Italian), Marina Brownlee (Spanish), Rita Copeland (Classical Studies), Ann Kuttner (History of Art), Ann Matter (Religion), Ed Peters (History), Emily Steiner (English), and others in the current revitalization of Medieval Studies at Penn. He is the Chair elect of the Department of English here at Penn. David's fattest book, Chaucerian Polity. Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy appeared with Stanford UP in 1997 (paper 1999). With Barbara Hanawalt, co-editor, he has published Bodies and Disciplines. Intersections of Literature and History in Fifteenth-Century England, and Medieval Crime and Social Control, volumes in the U. Minnesota Press series "Medieval Cultures" (which he edits with Barbara and Rita Copeland). He also edited The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature (1999) and is currently co-editing (with Carolyn Dinshaw) The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing. David has also published on Catherine of Siena, Margery Kempe, medieval literary theory, rhetoric, Cleanness (and nominalist theology), Le Roman de la Rose, pilgrim badges, Beatrice, Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch, Pasolini, and on the relations of men to feminist critique.

Riccardo Boglione
He received his Laurea at the Universita di Genova, Italy, his M.A. at Boston College and his Ph.D at the University of Pennsylvania. His research has focused on Literary Theory, and the Italian New Avant-Garde with a special emphasis on the relations between written words and images, sculpture and other media. He is currently working towards expanding the dissertation into his first book. Together with his wife, Georgina Torello, he directs experimental videos and produces video installations. He teaches Italian Literature at the Societa Dante Alighieri of Montevideo (Uruguay), where he lives.

Silvia Carlorosi
Silvia Carlorosi received a Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere from the University of Urbino, Italy, an M.A. in Mass Communications at Miami University of Ohio (May 2001), and a Ph.D. in Italian at the University of Pennsylvania (August 2006). She wrote her dissertation, "Cinepoiesis: The Visual Poetics of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Michelangelo Antonioni and Franco Piavoli," on the interaction between cinema and poetry. Departing from an analysis of Pasolini's idea of "cinema of poetry," her work considers how this poetic form differs from a cinema of prose, and evaluates the ideas of the image and the gaze. Within this framework the dissertation offers an analysis of Pasolini's Mamma Roma, Michelangelo Antonioni's Deserto Rosso, and Franco Piavoli's cinema of sounds and images. She is currently working as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Middlebury College, where she teaches courses in language, literature and culture. Her interests include 20th century Italian literature and film, cultural studies, literary theory and philosophy, and teaching pedagogy. She has published articles on Italian cinema, and is currently working on transforming her dissertation into a manuscript. She is also collaborating on the publication of an advanced intermediate textbook for Italian language and culture. The project, Confronti: A Textbook for Intermediate Italian, includes a web-based cross-cultural exchange between American students of Italian and Italian students of English. The following articles are amongst her publications: "Politicizzazione dell'Estetica o Estetizzazione della Politica? 1860 di Alessandro Blasetti" in Italian Culture, Vol. 18, 2, 2000. 87-104; "Neo-Romanticismo in risposta al Postmodernismo? L'influenza leopardiana nella poetica cinematografica felliniana di La voce della luna" in Film e Letterature: Rivista di Cinema e Letteratura. (Number 4, 2006) http://www.almapress.unibo.it/fl/default.htm

Fabiana Cecchini
Fabiana Cecchini was born in Pesaro (in central Italy), hometown of the famous composer Gioacchino Rossini. She studied at the Universita' di Urbino where she received her Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere (English and French). Her thesis, which focused on Sylvia Plath and her intellectual relationship with the American poets after World War II, was titled "Sylvia Plath and the Tranquillized Fifties". After her studies at Urbino, in 2000 she began her doctoral studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2002 she received her Master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently completing her dissertation, "Immagini di donna tra autorappresentazione e cinegrafia. Sibilla Aleramo e Veronica Franco." In December 2003, Fabiana received the "Graduate Student Certification in Womens' Studies" from the Womens' Studies Department of the University of Pennsylvania. In Summer 2004 she obtained the Salvatori Research Award in Italian Studies to conduct research in the Sibilla Aleramo archives in Rome. In Fall 2006 Fabiana was hired by Rice University (Houston, TX) as Lecturer in Italian and coordinator of the instruction of the Language program. Her main scholarly interests include womens' studies, Italian fiction and poetry, Italian cinema, the relationship between film and literature. Although her research concentrates on literature and cinema, second language acquisition is also a fundamental part of her academic life: Fabiana has always enjoyed teaching, and believes it essential to her growth as a professor.

Giovanna Faleschini Lerner
Giovanna Faleschini Lerner (PhD 2005) has been Assistant Professor of Italian at Franklin and Marshall College since 2007, after holding a visiting position there since 2005. Her research interests are contemporary Italian literature and film, with a particular emphasis on the interartistic dialogue between art and literature, as well as cinema and painting. She has published articles on Carlo Levi, Francesco Rosi, and Maria Bellonci, and is currently working on a book-length project on Carlo Levi's "Visual Poetics."

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Lina Insana
Lina Insana is Assistant Professor of Italian at the University of Pittsburgh, where she teaches Holocaust literature, the literature of the ventennio nero, Sicilian writers, Italian detective fiction, translation studies, Italian American studies, and migration and identity in the Italian context. After receiving a BA and an MA in Italian Language and Literature from the University of Pittsburgh, she completed her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in 2000, with a dissertation on the practice and metaphor of translation in Primo Levi's Holocaust writings. Her research has focused primarily on representations of the Shoah, with particular emphasis on the intersection of Holocaust and translation studies. Her book-length study of Primo Levi and translation, Arduous Tasks: Primo Levi, Translation, and the Transmission of Holocaust Testimony, forthcoming from the U of Toronto Press, was the recipient of the 2007 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Manuscript in Italian Studies (awarded by the MLA). She has recently begun work on a new project that will explore the role of Sicily in shaping notions of italianita for the modern Italian state. In addition to her research on Levi, Insana has published on Italian American children's literature, women's literature in Fascist culture, Boccaccio's defense of literature, and myth in Beppe Fenoglio.

Nicoletta Marini-Maio
Nicoletta Marini-Maio is Assistant Professor of Italian at Middlebury College. She holds a Laurea in Lettere and a Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere from the University of Perugia, Italy, a MA in Teaching Italian as L2 from the University for Foreigners in Perugia, Italy, and a MA in Linguistics at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy. She received her Ph.D. in Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, with a dissertation on the representation of left-wing terrorism and the Moro Affair in Italian culture, film, and theater. She is currently working on her manuscript on the representation of terrorism in Italian film and theater, and on a number of articles on Italian cinema. She has published articles on Italian theater and cinema, co-edited a scholarly volume on the teaching of Italian language, culture, and literature through theater, and co-authored a textbook for the teaching of Italian language. Her interests include Italian cinema and film theory, 20th century Italian literature, Italian theater, cultural studies, applied linguistics, and teaching pedagogy.

Elena Past
Elena Past is an Assistant Professor of Italian at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where she teaches courses in modern Italian literature, culture, and cinema. She began her studies of Italian as an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin, and received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005 with a dissertation on contemporary Italian crime fiction and its roots in Italian criminological thought. Elena's research and teaching interests include contemporary Italian literature and cinema, literary theory, criminology, detective fiction, Italian horror cinema, food culture and in particular the Slow Food movement, the Italian Enlightenment, art and literature, Mediterraneanism, and Italy's participation in the Spanish Civil War. She is currently working on a book project that traces Italian epistemologies of crime, born in the work of Cesare Beccaria and Cesare Lombroso, in contemporary crime fiction.

Gabriella Romani
Gabriella Romani is Assistant Professor of Italian at Seton Hall University. She received a laurea in Lingue e letterature straniere moderne from the University of Rome La Sapienza and a Ph.D. in Italian Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research is mainly focused on nineteenth-century cultural history and literature: Women's participation in the rhetoric of the Risorgimento political and cultural movements, the pedagogical and educational developments of Italy during the pre- and post unification era, popular culture (letteratura popolare) of the late 1800's, Gender and Cultural Studies. She has also worked on migrant writers in contemporary Italy and on Holocaust Literature. She is the co-editor of Writing to Delight: Italian Short Stories by Nineteenth-Century Women Writers (University of Toronto Press, 2006) and has edited and introduced Edith Bruck's Letter to My Mother, forthcoming with the MLA Texts and Translations Series. She is currently working on a book on epistolary practices in late nineteenth-century Italy and on the correspondence between Edmondo De Amicis and Emilia Peruzzi.

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 her 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.

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