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Gaetana Marrone
Gaetana Marrone, professor of Italian Studies at Princeton University, specializes in modern Italian literature and postwar Italian cinema. She is the author of several books, including The Gaze and the Labyrinth: The Cinema of Liliana Cavani (Princeton University Press, 2000) and Lo sguardo e il labirinto (Marsilio Editori, 2003; enlarged Italian ed.), and is General Editor of a two-volume Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies (Routledge, 2007). She has also produced award-winning films, including a documentary feature on Princeton’s intellectual and social history, Images of a University (1996), and Zefirino (2007) on the artistic evolution of the famed castrati singers. She has been the recipient of numerous prizes, including the American Association of Italian Studies Presidential Award and the Scaglione Prize by the Modern Language Association of America. In 2010, she received the honorary title of ‘Cavaliere dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana’. Her book, The Cinema of Francesco Rosi (Oxford University Press, 2020), was awarded the Premio Internazionale Flaiano 2021 and the Premio ‘Letteratura’ 2020–22 by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Napoli.
Contact: Department of French and Italian, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.