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Stefania Benini
Stefania Benini is an Italian and general education lecturer at Alvernia University in Reading, Pennsylvania. Her main research interests are the theory of the sacred in cinema and the gaze and the voice of Italian and Italophone women writers and filmmakers. She has published extensively, and her book, Pasolini: The Sacred Flesh (Toronto University Press, 2015), explores Pasolini’s immanent vision of the sacred. Benini received the prestigious ‘Lauro De Bosis Fellowship’ at Harvard University in 2014–15. Her most recent publication on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s subversive hagiographies, multistable subjectivities and queer cinema was published in a Special Issue of Biblical Interpretations in 2019. She is the coordinator of the Italian section of the Gynocine Project (
Contact: College of Humanities, Education, and Social Services Offerings, Alvernia University, 400 Saint Bernardine St., Reading, PA 19607, USA.