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Gaetana Marrone
Gaetana Marrone is a professor of Italian studies at Princeton University. Her principal publications include La drammatica di Ugo Betti (Novecento Editrice, 1988), New Landscapes in Contemporary Italian Cinema (Annali d’Italianistica, 1999), The Gaze and the Labyrinth: The Cinema of Liliana Cavani (Princeton University Press, 2000), Lo sguardo e il labirinto (Marsilio, 2003; rev. and enlarged Italian edition) and a critical edition of Ugo Betti’s Delitto all’isola delle capre (Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore, 2006). She is also general editor of a two-volume Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies (Routledge, 2007). She has also produced award-winning films: Woman in the Wind (1988), a documentary feature on Princeton’s intellectual and social history, Images of a University (1996) and Zefirino: The Voice of a Castrato, a documentary film that traces the artistic evolution of the famed castrati singers (2007). She has been the recipient of the American Association of Italian Studies Presidential Award, the Scaglione Prize by the Modern Language Association of America, the Premio Internazionale Fondazione Rubbettino. In 2010, she received the honorary title of ‘Cavaliere dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana’. Her most recent book is The Cinema of Francesco Rosi (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Contact: Department of French and Italian, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.