Faculty Profile
Nicoletta Marini Maio
(she/her/hers)Professor of Italian and Film Studies; Director of Mosaics; John J. and Ann Conser Curley Chair in Global Education (2007)
Contact Information
on sabbatical 2024-25
Bosler Hall Room 219
717-245-1592
Bio
Professor Marini-Maio completed her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in Italian cinema. She is the founding Editor of the international open-access peer reviewed journal gender/sexuality/italy. Her main fields of research are film studies and Italian cinema, particularly the intersections between politics, gender, cultural representations, popular culture, the narrative mode, and collective memory. She recently published a book on Silvio Berlusconi in cinema. Her monograph on the representation of left-wing terrorism in Italian film and theatre is near to completion. In addition, she published her research on the "decamerotici," a series of movies inspired by Boccaccio's Decameron produced in Italy in the 1970s, and on "Winx Club," an international comic strip and video series for young girls created in Italy. She has published articles on Italian cinema and theatre, Italian teaching pedagogy, and technology-enhanced language learning. In this areas, she has also co-edited the scholarly volumes "Set the Stage! Teaching Italian through Theater" (Yale University Press, 2009) and "Dramatic Interactions" (Cambridge Scholars, 2011). At Dickinson, where she is the Director of the Mosaics Programs, she is sharing with her students her passion for Italian culture and film studies. She is the Vice President of the American Association for italian Studies.
Education
- B.A., University of Perugia, Italy, 1986
- M.A., University of Rome, 1998
- M.A., University of Pennsylvania, 2001
- Ph.D., 2006