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Millicent J. Marcus
Millicent J. Marcus is the Sarai Ribicoff professor of Italian studies at Yale University. Her specializations include medieval literature, Italian cinema, interrelationships between literature and film and representations of the Holocaust in post-war Italian culture. She is the author of An Allegory of Form: Literary Self-Consciousness in the ‘Decameron’ (Anma Libri, l979), Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism (Princeton University Press, l986), Filmmaking by the Book: Italian Cinema and Literary Adaptation (Johns Hopkins University Press, l993), After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002), Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz (Toronto University Press, 2007) and Italian Film in the Present Tense (Toronto University Press, 2023). In recent years, she has developed a scholarly interest in neuro-aesthetics (a branch of cognitive neuro-science) and environmental humanities.
Contact: Department of Italian Studies, Yale University, 320 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.