Italian Studies

During her years at Brown, Antonella Sisto focused on film studies. In her dissertation, written under the direction of M. Riva and published in a book entitled Film Sound in Italy. Listening to the Screen (Palgrave-McMillan, 2014), she engaged in a critical re-thinking of the primacy of the visual in film studies, in an attempt to re-discover the phonic and sonic dimension of the cinematic experience. She was a member of the organizing committee of the first Brown-Harvard Graduate Student Conference, Chiasmi, entitled Cultural margins/marginal cultures, held in March 2008. After graduating, Antonella was Five-College Mellon post-doctoral fellow in Italian and film studies, based in Amherst, and a post-doctoral fellow at Brown. Her work in progress links film to eco-criticism and acoustic ecology. She regularly contributes to the Cinema Ritrovato Film Festival.