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Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Professor of Italian Studies and History, New York University "Modernity and Masculinity in the Italian Colonial Cinema" Thursday, 26 April 2007 4:00 p.m. The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. Sponsored by: The Center for European Studies Ruth Ben-Ghiat is Professor of Italian and History, and Chair of the Department of Italian Studies at New York University. Her research interests include modern Italian culture and history, twentieth-century European politics and culture; film history; fascism and the politics of its memory, and Italian colonialism. She has received numerous fellowships and honors, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. She has published extensively; select publications include Italian Prisoners of War and the Transition from Dictatorship (under contract with Princeton University Press); Italian Films and Italian Fascism: Colonialism, War, and the Legacies of Dictatorship (to be published by Indiana University Press); Italian Colonialism, edited with Mia Fuller ( New York: Palgrave, 2005); "Modernity is Just Over There: Colonialism and Italian National Identity," Interventions. International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (November 2006); "Unmaking the Fascist Man: Film, Masculinity, and the Transition from Dictatorship," Journal of Modern Italian Studies, special issue on Italian masculinity (Fall 2005).
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