Flavia Laviosa is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Italian Studies at Wellesley College. Her research interests are in the representations of violence against women in world cinema and Italian media. She is the founding editor of the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies published by Intellect and of the book series Trajectories published by Intellect and Chicago UP. She has authored chapters in the edited volumes He Was my Father (S. Gastaldi and D. Ward eds.) (Peter Lang, 2018), The Italian Cinema Book (P. Bondanella ed.) (BFI, 2014), A New Italian Political Cinema? Emerging Themes (W. Hope ed.) (Troubador, 2013), Popular Italian Cinema and Politics in a Postwar Society (F. Brizio-Skov ed.) (Bloomsbury, 2011); and articles in the Journal of Mediterranean Studies, Studies in European Cinema, JOMEC, Rivista di Studi Italiani, Italica, Incontri - Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani. She also guest-edited the special issue of SEC, ‘Cinematic Journeys of Italian Women Directors’ (8:2, 2011), and edited the volume Visions of Struggle in Women’s Filmmaking in the Mediterranean (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). She was the Artistic Director of the Italian Film Festival at Wellesley College in 2017, 2019. She has founded the ‘Italian Cinema and Media Studies’ biennial conference held in Italy at The American University of Rome in 2017, 2019, 2022. |