Intellect

Lecturer in Italian at the University of Leeds. Working on a book on the representation of terrorism in recent Italian cinema. Publications include:
◦ ‘Marco Tullio Giordana and the persistence of "impegno"’, in: Angela Barwig and Thomas Stauder (eds.) Intellettuali italiani del secondo novecento, Verlag für deutsch-italienische Studien (Oldenbourg), forthcoming 2006
◦ ‘Ordinary People (Lest We Forget)’, in: Elena Bellina and Paola Bonifazio (eds.) State of Exception: Cultural Responses to the Rhetoric of Fear, Cambridge Scholars Press (Newcastle), 2006, pp.83-93
◦ ‘Film and the 'Anni di piombo': Representations of Politically-Motivated Violence in Recent Italian Cinema’, in: Guido Bonsaver and Robert S.C. Gordon (eds.) Culture, Censorship and the State in Twentieth-Century Italy, Legenda (Oxford), 2005; pp.168-178.
◦ ‘The gendered space of cinema and nation in 'Elizabeth' and 'Michael Collins'’, in Studies in European Cinema, 1(2), 2004; pp.117-128.
◦ Review of 'The Cinema of Nanni Moretti: Dreams and Diaries' by Ewa Mazierska and Laura Rascaroli (2004). New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 3/3 (2005), pp.208-211.