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Mary Ann McDonald Carolan

Mary Ann McDonald Carolan is professor of modern languages and literatures and director of the Italian Studies programme at Fairfield University. Her work focuses on Italian cinema in the cross-cultural context. Professor Carolan is the author of The Transatlantic Gaze: Italian Cinema, American Film (State University of New York Press, 2014) which documents the sustained and profound artistic impact of Italian cinema upon filmmakers in the United States from the post-war period to the new millennium. Her new cross-cultural study, Orienting Italy: China through the Lens of Italian Filmmakers (State University of New York Press, 2022), which won the American Association of Teachers of Italian book award for performance/visual studies in 2022, examines the ways in which Italian directors have employed documentary, historical fiction and fictional narratives to represent China and its people both at home and abroad in Italy.

Contact: Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, Fairfield University, 1073 North Benson Road, Fairfield, CT 06824, USA.