Dr. Angela Dalle Vacche is a Full Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. Originally from Venice, Italy, she came to the US in 1978 and she earned her Ph.D in Film Studies from the University of Iowa in 1985. Since then, she has taught European and International Cinema at Vassar College, Yale University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology where she is the director of Italian Film Studies, a 6-week summer filmmaking school for documentary set up between GaTech/LCC and the University of Udine-Gorizia in North-Eastern Italy. She is a specialist in early cinema, film and the visual arts, European cinema, color, and she has an emerging interest in Francophone West African film. At GaTech she has been organizing film series on French, Japanese, and African films. During the 2000 New York Film Festival, she curated for the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Cineteca di Bologna the retrospective Silent Divas which qualified for best of 2000 in ArtForum.  The recipient of  grants and fellowships (Fulbright, Mellon, Rockefeller, Leverhulme), she is a life-time member of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. Her books include: The Body in the Mirror: Shapes of History in Italian Cinema, Princeton 1992; Cinema and Painting: How Art is Used in Film, U of Texas Press, 1996; Diva: Defiance and Passion in Early Silent Cinema, U of Texas, CHOICE AWARD 2008;  editor of The Visual Turn: Film Theory and Art History, Rutgers, 2002; Film, Art, New Media: Museum without Walls, Palgrave, 2012; and she also co-edited with Brian Price, Color in Film, Routledge, 2006. Dalle Vacche is currently writing her fourth book: ANDRE BAZIN: ART, FILM, SCIENCE, 1945-1958;  She is one of the founding members of CINEMARTS for the Society of Cinema and Media Studies; in 2007 she was Distinguished Professor at Birckbeck College, University of London. Dalle Vacche has guest-lectured in Paris, Vienna, Athens, Cambridge, Rome, Montreal, Dublin, Cork, London, Helsinki, and Portugal.