PhD and writer with eight years of Italian teaching experience.

I have a PhD in Comparative Literature with a specialization in Italian from The Graduate Center, CUNY. My academic research focuses mostly on animation, Italian cinema, history, and culture, but I am interested in film theory, critical theory, television, and pop culture as well. My dissertation was on the animated works of Italian filmmaker Bruno Bozzetto. The project contextualized Bozzetto within the postwar Italian cinema 'story,' while making the case for animation as a medium unique... Read More >>