Flavia Laviosa is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Italian Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education and a M.A. in Humanities from SUNY Buffalo. She also earned a M.Sc. in European Film Studies and Criticism at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland; and completed a B.A. Honors in Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Bari in Italy. Her research interests are in Italian women directors, Southern Italy, Euro-Mediterranean studies, and foreign language education. She is member of the International Consulting Board for Sine/Cine: The Journal of Cinema Research.
She is the editor of the volume Visions of Struggle in Women’s Filmmaking in the Mediterranean (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010). Her articles on Italian cultural studies and cinema have appeared in the following publications: Journal of Mediterranean Studies, International Journal of Euro-Mediterranean Studies, California Italian Studies, Studies in European Cinema, Italica, Rivista di Studi Italiani, Kinema, Jura Gentium Cinema, American Journal of Italian Studies, and Italian Politics and Society. Her essays on foreign language education have been published in Italica, College Board-Special Focus, Rivista Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, South African Association for Language Teaching, Tuttitalia, and Il Forneri.
Her publications include chapters in the edited collections Cinema and Culture in Twentieth Century Italy. Reinventing the Popular: Genre Cinema of the Post-War (IBT Tauris Academic Publications, 2011); Zoom ‘d’oltreoceano’: istantanee sui registi italiani e sull’Italia (Vecchiarelli, 2010); (Ri)narrare il Meridione (Metauro, 2010); Watching Pages, Reading Pictures: Cinema and Modern Literature in Italy (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008); Teaching Italian Culture: Case Studies for an International Perspective (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008); Italian Cinema-New Directions (Peter Lang, 2005); La Scuola Italiana di Middlebury (Metauro, 2005); and Incontri con il Cinema Italiano (Sciascia, 2003).