INVITED TALKS

“An Investigative Cinema: Politics and Modernization in Italian, French, and American Film.” December 6, 2018. Book presentation sponsored by the Heyman Center for the Humanities. Columbia University, New York. Respondents: Elizabeth Leake (Professor of Italian at Columbia), Giancarlo Lombardi (Professor of Comparative Literature at the College of Staten Island/Graduate Center), and Richard Peña (Professor of Film at Columbia and former director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York).

“Arte Povera and High Modernist Cinema.” April 5, 2018. Gordon College, Orvieto (Italy). Sponsored by the Gordon in Orvieto Study Abroad Program.

“We All Loved Each Other So Much and the Evolution of the Comedy Italian Style.” International Symposium: The Cinema of Ettore Scola. October 22-23, 2016. Casa Artom. Venice, Italy. Sponsored by Wake Forest University.

“Just Imagine: Genre and the Logic of Movie Posters.” In conjunction with the exhibition Now Showing: An American Century at the Movies, 1917-2017. September 29, 2016. Zimmerman Recital Hall. Sponsored by the Suzanne H. Arnold Gallery. Lebanon Valley College (PA).

“Investigation on an Actor Above Suspicion: The Movies of Gian Maria Volonté.” December 15, 2015. Sponsored by the G. D’Annunzio University. Pescara, Italy.

RESEARCH CONFERENCE PAPERS & DIGITAL PROJECT PRESENTATIONS

“Joshua Oppenheimer’s Cold War Between Thought and Expression.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Meeting. March 31-April 3, 2022. Chicago. Panel on “New Global Perspectives on the Cold War and Political Violence.” Fabrizio Cilento (Messiah University); Chair & Organizer. Massimiliano Delfino (Northwestern University); Co-Chair.

—-. Film Area Session. Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Meeting. April 13-16, 2022. Organizers: Fabrizio Cilento (Messiah University) and Anna Weinstein (Kennesaw University).

“Spaces of Television in The Paper Will Be Blue and 12:08 East of Bucharest.” Eastern European Studies Session. Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Meeting. June 2-5, 2021. Organizers: David and Olga Silverman (Kansas Wesleyan University).

—–. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Meeting. March 17-21, 2021. Virtual Conference. Panel on “Revisiting the New Wave.” Chair: Leah Vonderheide, Oberlin College.

“The Age of the Self: Social Media and the 21st Century Schizoid Gaze.” Seminar: Making Sense of Digitality.”American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. April 8-11, 2021. Virtual Conference. Organizers: Jacqueline Chia (York University, Toronto) and Priscilla Charrat Nelson (Bradley University).

“Too Strange to Believe: Pablo Escobar and Latin American Cinema’s War on Drugs.” Seminar: Magical Realism in Global Literary and Cinematic Trauma Narratives. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. March 8-11. Georgetown University, Washington DC. Organizer: Eugene Arva (University of Miami).

—. Latin American Film & Media Session. Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Meeting. April 17-20, 2019. Washington DC. Presiding: Melissa A. Fitch (University of Arizona).

“Pablo Larraín’s No and the Aesthetics of Television.” 6th Interdisciplinary Conference on Critical Theory: Fictions of History. May 5th-6th, 2017. Organized by the Critical Theory Program of the City University of New York in conjunction with the Center for the Humanities and the New York Public Library.

—-. Latin American Film & Media Session. Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Meeting. April 1-4, 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana. Presiding: Melissa A. Fitch (University of Arizona).

“In and Out of the Jungle: The Politics of Gael García Bernal.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies. March 22-26, 2016. Chicago, Illinois. Chair, panel on  “Politics and Paradoxes of Modern Celebrities.”

“Evening Rituals: Marco Ferreri’s Dillinger is Dead.” Intersections: Crossing Italian Borders in Music, Art, Literature, Theater, and Cinema. June 2-5, 2016. Kent State University, Gonzaga University, and California State University Programs. Florence, Italy. Organizer: Fulvio Orsitto (California State University).

“The Aesthetic of the Procedural in Post-9/11 Cinema” Session: War on Terror Cinema. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. March 30-April 3, 2016. Atlanta, Georgia. Presiding: Shakti Jaising (Drew University).

“Network Narrative in Diaz. Don’t Clean Up This Blood.” Seminar: Film and Cultural Memory. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachussets. March 17-20, 2016. Presiding: Inez Hedges (Northeastern University).

—-. Italian Cinema in the Present Tense: New Narrative Practices from Adaptation to Transmedia and Transnational Cinema. Franklin & Marshall College. Nov. 13-14, 2015. Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Presiding: Millicent Marcus (Yale University).

“Cinemablography.” #BUDSC15: Collaborating Digitally: Engaging Students in Public Scholarship. Bucknell University, Nov. 6-8, 2015. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

—-. Keystone Digital Humanities Conference. University of Pennsylvania, July 22-25, 2015. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

—-. Re: Humanities 2013. An Undergraduate Symposium on Digital Media. Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges. Pennsylvania. April 4-5, 2013.

“Rock Me Amadeus: The Mozart-Salieri Conflict in Drama and Film.” Bridges Across Cultures: An International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Washington & Jefferson College. July 2, 2015 – July 5, 2015. Palazzo Rucellai, Florence, Italy. Presiding: Helena Talaya-Manso (Boston College).

“A Certain Absence in French Cinema” Session: The Nouvelle Vague at 60: A Reassessment. Northeast Modern Language Association. April 30-May 3, 2015. Toronto, Canada. Presiding: Jackie Cameron.

“Race, Genetics and Ethnicity: Comparing Categorical and Ancestral Identities.” With Dr. Joseph Huffman (History), Dr. Michael Shin (Biology). School of the Humanities Symposium on Race in America. February 24-27, 2015, Messiah University, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.

“Love and Supermodernity in Jonathan Levine’s Warm Bodies.”  The Supernatural in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture. Pennsylvania College English Association Conference. October 3-4, 2014. State College, Pennsylvania.

“Investigation of an Actor Above Suspicion: The Moro Affair in the Movies of Gian Maria Volonté.”  The Moro Affair in Narrative and Cinema (1978-2008) Session. Northeast Modern Language Association. April 3-6 2014. Harrisburg, Pennsylania. Presiding: Daniele Fioretti (Miami University).

“One Hundred Steps: Radio Interference on the Neorealist Heritage.” “New Trends in Modern and Contemporary Italian Cinema.” 5th Annual Conference. University of Bloomington, Indiana. April 23-26, 2014.

—-. Italian Cinema Session at the 2013 Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association conference. November 1-3, 2013. San Diego, California. Presiding: Fulvio Orsitto (California State University).

“What Julian Smith Hates (and Loves) About Facebook: Social Media Parody as Self-Promotion.” With a video essay by Alex White. Humor in the Digital Age Session at South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Presiding: Pete Kunze. November 8-10, 2013. Atlanta, Georgia.

“Junkspace.” Poetry reading on non-places and supermodernity for the event ”Luce Prigioniera.” Le Murate, Florence, Italy. December 19 2012. Organizers: Vittorio Biagini and Andrea Sirotti.

“Even the Rain: A Confluence of Cinematic and Historical Temporalities.” Film Panel at the Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association. Presiding: Juliet Lynd (Illinois State University). November 8-11, 2012. Cincinnati, Ohio.

—-. The Ethics of Water: Everything Flows from Here.” Precarious Alliance Symposium. October 11-12, 2012. Delaware Valley College, Pennsylvania.

“Recovering Identity: Gastón Biraben’s Cautiva.” Humanities Symposium. February 24, 2011. Messiah University, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.

“Saviano, Garrone, Gomorrah.” Modern Language Association Conference. Session “Italian Cinema Now: Politics, Gender, and Ethnicity.” Program arranged by the Division on Twentieth-Century Italian Literature. Presiding: Francesca G. Parmeggiani (Fordham University). December 29, 2009. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

“Pasolini on TV.” European Film Conference. Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. September 8-10, 2008. University of Texas at San Antonio.

“Neorealism and the Double Stain.” Graduate Symposium “Italian Cinema for the New Millennium: Cinema as Witness.” Department of Italian Language and Literature, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of New York and the Whitney Humanities Center. April 19-22, 2007. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

“Reconstructing Reality: Logic of Ellipsis and Shifting Present in Salvatore Giuliano.” Graduate Student Conference for Interdisciplinary Studies “Faith, Knowledge and the Interface of Epistemologies.” May 4, 2006. University of Washington.

“Objectively False: Aesthetic of Image and Fictionalized Documentary in The Battle of Algiers.” Department of French and Italian. “Politics and Persuasion: Investigating the (Ab)use of Language.” April 8, 2006. University of Bloomington, Indiana.

“The Vision at Last: Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, Not I, and That Time.” Department of Comparative Literature. “Heroic Rhetoric.” April 22, 2005. University of Washington, Seattle. Presiding: Travis C. Landry (Kenyon College).