लेखक: Francesco Buscemi

Flavia Laviosa is senior lecturer in the Department of Italian Studies at Wellesley College. Her research interests are in Italian women filmmakers. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies and the book series Trajectories. She has authored chapters in the volumes He Was My Father (Peter Lang, 2018) (edited by S. Gastaldi and D. Ward), The Italian Cinema Book (BFI, 2014) (edited by P. Bondanella), A New Italian Political Cinema? Emerging Themes (Troubadour, 2013) (edited by W. Hope) and Popular Italian Cinema and Politics in a Postwar Society (Bloomsbury, 2011) (edited by F. Brizio-Skov) and written articles published in the Journal of Mediterranean Studies, Studies in European Cinema, JOMEC, Rivista di Studi Italiani, Italica and Incontri: Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani. She has also guest-edited the Special Issue of SEC, ‘Cinematic Journey of Italian Women Directors’ (8:2, 2011) and edited the volume Visions of Struggle in Women’s Filmmaking in the Mediterranean (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Contact: Department of Italian Studies, Wellesley College, 106 Central St., Wellesley, MA 02481, USA.