Flavia Laviosa

Flavia Laviosa is senior lecturer in the Department of French, Francophone and 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). She has published in the Journal of Mediterranean Studies, Journal of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Rivista di Studi Italiani, Italica, Incontri: Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani, among others. She has also guest-edited the Special Issue of Studies in European Cinema, ‘Cinematic Journeys of Italian Women Directors’ (8:2, 2011) and edited Visions of Struggle in Women’s Filmmaking in the Mediterranean (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

Contact: Italian Studies, Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481, USA.