Autor/-in: Roberta Di Carmine

Roberta Di Carmine is Professor of Film Studies and Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Film Minor at Western Illinois University. Raised and educated in Pescara, Italy, she received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Oregon and a master’s degree in foreign languages and literatures from West Virginia University. Her essays on film studies have appeared in Wide Screen, Dealing with Diversity, The Councilor: The Journal of the Illinois Council for the Social Studies, and A Companion to Film Comedy, among others. In 2011, she published Italy Meets Africa: Colonial Discourses in Italian Cinema.