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Flavia Brizio-Skov
Flavia Brizio-Skov is full professor at the University of Tennessee where she teaches Italian and cinema. Her field of research spans from literature to cinema, from popular culture to immigration, from genre cinema to criticism, from cinema studies to deconstruction. She has published the book La scrittura e la memoria: Lalla Romano (Selene edizioni, 1993) and the critical monograph Antonio Tabucchi: navigazioni in un universo narrativo (Pellegrini, 2002), and has edited a collection of articles Reconstructing Societies in the Aftermath of War: Memory, Identity, and Reconciliation (Bordighera Press, 2004). In 2011 she edited the volume Popular Italian Cinema: Culture and Politics in a Postwar Society (I. B. Tauris) and her latest monograph, Ride the Frontier: Exploring the Myth of the American West on Screen, was published by McFarland in 2021. Recently a chapter on an Italian author has appeared in a large volume entitled The Western in the Global Literary Imagination (Brill, 2023). She works as a referee reader for many scholarly journals.
Contact: University of Tennessee, 701 McClung Tower, MFLL, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.
