Wellesley College Faculty Member Establishes a New Journal

Flavia Laviosa, senior lecturer in Italian studies at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, is the founder and editor of the new Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies. Dr. Laviosa states the mission of the new journal is “informing the world about Italian films, especially the less popular ones, and how Italian cinema has inspired other cinemas.”

Dr. Laviosa is the editor of Visions of Struggle in Women’s Filmmaking in the Mediterranean (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010). She is a graduate of the University of Bari in Italy. She holds a master’s degree in European film studies from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and a second master’s degree and a Ph.D. in humanities from the University of Buffalo.

The first issue of the new journal will be published in the fall of 2012.