Stefania BeniniTeaching Fellow, Italian Studies and Hebrew

Stefania Benini (Ph. D Stanford University) is a Teaching Fellow in Italian at Franklin& Marshall College. 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.  She coordinates the Italian section of the Gynocine Project on Women Filmmakers at www.gynocine.com

Her current research focuses on Italian Women Filmmakers.