Author: Nicoletta Marini-Maio

Nicoletta Marini-Maio is Associate Professor of Italian and Film Studies, and Chair of the French and Italian Department at Dickinson College. She is a regular contributor to the Film Studies Program at Dickinson.

She is interested in 20th and 21st century Italian and transnational film, theater, and culture, particularly in the intersections between politics, the narrative mode, and collective memory. She is currently completing a monograph on the representation of left-wing terrorism in Italian film and theater. Her research project was granted the Penn Humanities Forum Mellon Regional Faculty Fellowships for the year 2013–2014.

Marini-Maio is the founding Editor of the forthcoming academic journal gender/sexuality/italy and co-founder of the research group Culture and Politics of Gender. She is currently working on the constructions of femininity and masculinity with regards to power gender relations, patriarchy, and sexuality through the analysis of the Decamerotici, a series of Italian films produced in the 1970s and inspired by Boccaccio’s Decameron.

She recently co-edited a critical translation of Corpo di stato, by the Italian playwright Marco Baliani. She has published articles on Italian cinema and theater, Italian teaching pedagogy, and technology-enhanced language learning. In this areas, she has also co-edited two scholarly volumes: Set the Stage! Teaching Italian through Theater and Dramatic Interactions: Teaching the Foreign Language, Culture, and Literature through Theater