Film ANd Cultural Studies

Books

White Sheiks: Constructing Race in Transnational Cinema, Forthcoming 2026

Edited Special Issues

[with Rachel Johnson and Shelleen Greene], "Distribution and Circulation of Italian Film and Media," Special Issue, The Italianist, 2025.

Journal Articles

"Stirring the Pot: The Politics of Ethnicity in Ratatouille (2007),"Journal of Popular Film and Television (2025)

"Transnational 'Italian' Stardom: Lara Saint Paul and the Performativity of Race", Italian Studies 73.3 (2018)

"A Station in Motion: Termini as Heterotopia", Italian Studies 72.3 (2017)

“Transnationalism and Nostalgia: Gianfranco Pannone’s ‘Trilogy of America’”. Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies 4.3 (2016), pp. 403-419.

‘Zombies and the Post-colonial Italian Unconscious: Lucio Fulci’s Zombi 2 (1979)’ in Cinergie 3 (2013), pp.166-182. Online

‘Costruire la razza come mostruosità in Italia’, in Studi Culturali 1 (2013), pp. 293-303.

Scenes Reviews

‘Lo squadrone bianco’; ‘Besieged’, in World Film Locations: Rome, ed. by Gabriel Solomons (London: Intellect, Spring 2014), pp. 12-13; 98-99. Scene Reviews.

Reviews

'Morte a Venezia. Thomas Mann / Luchino Visconti: Un confronto', in Forum Italicum 49.1 (2015), pp. 259-26

'L’Africa in Italia. Per una controstoria postcoloniale del cinema italiano. A cura di Leonardo de Franceschi', in Studi Culturali 2 (2014), pp. 343-356.

'Postcolonial Cinema Studies. Edited by Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Weller', in Postcolonial Texts 8.3 (2014).

‘Screening Strangers: Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary European Cinema. By Yosefa Loshitzky’, in Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture 3.1 (2012), pp. 163-165.