Published Works

Work in Progress

• Visions of Struggle: Women's Filmmaking in the Mediterranean. Flavia Laviosa (Ed.) (Edited volume under preparation)


• Women's Drama, Men's Business. Violence Against Women in Italian Cinema Film Representations of Popular Culture. Flavia Brizio-Skov (Ed.).


• From Peripheries to Frontiers: Sounds and Rhythms of the South. Redefining the South. Antonio Vitti (Ed.) (Commissioned paper).


• 'Death is the fairest cover for her shame': Cinematic Representations of Honor Killings.


• Webs and Labyrinths of the Soul in Cristina Comencini's Films.

Chapters in Books

• (Re)defining the Mediterranean Through New Frontiers: Apulia the West of the East.Italy and the Mediterranean: Transcultural Spaces. Norma Bouchard and Fulvio Orsitto (Eds.) Toronto University Press (Submitted).


• Tarantism: Representations of Popular Culture and Rituals in Italian Cinema. Film Representations of Popular Culture. Flavia Brizio-Skov (Ed.) (Accepted).


• A Visual Socio-Cultural Studies Approach to Italian Women's Studies. Teaching Italian Culture: Case STudies for an INternational Perspective. Emanuele Occhipinti (Ed.) Cambridge Scholars Press. Cambridge, 2008 (Forthcoming).


• Cristina Comencini, Novelist and Filmmaker: From La bestia nel cuore to Don't Tell. From Paper to Screen: Cinema and the Italian Novel Tradition. Daniela De Pau and Georgina Torello (Eds.) Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge, 2008 (Forthcoming).


• ESTetica: la Puglia nel cinema. La Scuola Italiana di Middlebury (1996-2005) Passione Didattica Pratica. Antonio Vitti (Ed.) Metauro Edizioni, 2005, pp. 233-263.


• Francesca Archibugi: Families and Life Apprenticeship. Italian Cinema-New Directions. William Hope (Ed.) Peter Lang AG, 2005, pp. 201-227.


• La metalingua del gioco in La vita è bella. Incontri con il Cinema Italiano. Antonio Vitti (Ed.) Sciascia Editore, 2003, pp. 71-78.


• Intervista con Francesca Archibugi: la famiglia postmoderna nella sua firma d'autore. Incontri con il Cinema Italiano. Anotonio Vitti (Ed.) Sciascia Editore, 2003, pp. 375-386.

Articles in Refereed Journals

• Cristina Comencini scrittrice, scenografa e regista. Intervista. Italica (Submitted).


• Humanizing Interpersonal Speaking in the Foreign Language Classroom. Special Focus, College Board. Guest Editor Elvira Di Fabio (Ed.) (Forthcoming, 2008).


• Benigni: giocoliere di parole in La vita è bella. Italica, 2-3, 2007, pp. 509-526.


• Francesca Archibugi's Cinema: Minimalism or Micro-History? Studies in European Cinema 4, 2, 2007, pp. 99-110.


• Feelings and Private Conversations: an Interview with Director Cristina Comencini. Kinema, Fall 2005, pp. 55-66.


• The Post-Modern Italian Family: the Reality Changes but the Word Stays the Same. The Teacher Trainer, 7, 6, November 2005, pp. 20-28.

La sdrammaticità storica in La vita è bella. Italian Politics and Society 57, Spring 2003, pp.10-21.

• Archibugi's Cinematic Representations of the Socio-Cultural Changes in the Modern Italian Family. Italica, 80, 4, Winter 2003, pp. 540-549.


• Themes and Motifs in the Cinema of Francesca Archibugi. Kinema 20, Fall 2003, pp. 43-54.


• Cinema as a Social Mirror: Flavia Laviosa in Conversation with the Italian Director Francesca Archibugi. Kinema 20, Fall 2003, pp. 55-60.


• Family and Art in Francesca Archibugi's Cinema. An Interview. Rivista di Studi Italiani, 20, 1, giugno 2002, pp. 499-507.


• The Listening Processes and Strategies of Learners of Italian: a Case Study. Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata 2, 2000, pp. 129-159.


• Life Beyond Sound: Liliana Cavani's Film Dove siete? Io sono qui! Special Issue on Contemporary Italian Cinema American Journal of Italian Studies 22, 59, 1999, pp. 52-65.


• The Challenge of Italian Women in the 1980s and 1990s: Resolving the Paradox of Legislation on Affirmative Action in a Reality of Unequal Opportunity. Italian Politics and Society 48, Fall 1997, pp. 61-70.


• 1970s: a Decade of Legislative Reforms for Italian Women's Protection and Equality. Italian Politics and Society 47, Spring 1997, pp. 57-63.


• How to Test and Evaluate Oral Proficiency in Italian. Tuttitalia, 13, June 1996, pp. 3-15.


• A Process-Product Approach to Writing in Italian. Italica 71, 4, 1994, pp. 484-504.


• Reading Strategies in Italian Language Courses. South African Association for Language Teaching 28, 3 1994, pp. 234-257.


• L2 Listening Strategy Training. Italiana V, 1993, pp. 295-302.


• A Psycholinguistic Approach to Reading Comprehension in Italian. Il Forneri 7, 1, 1993, pp. 3-23.


• Curriculum Design for Italian Language Courses. South African Association for Language Teaching 26, 3, 1992, pp. 26-39.


• Why and How to Teach L2 Listening Comprehension Strategies. South African Association for Language Teaching 25, 3, 1991, pp. 17-29.


• Italy and the European Economic Community in 1992. New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers Every Student; Every Day 7, Oct. 1990, pp. 113-116.

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Flavia Laviosa
flaviosa@wellesley.edu
781-283-2618