GAETANA MARRONE-PUGLIA (Ph. D. Northwestern University) specializes in modern Italian literature and postwar Italian cinema. Her principal publications include articles in the 19th- and 20th- century literature, film, and cultural studies. She is the author of La drammatica di Ugo Betti: Tematiche e archetipi (1988; American Association of Italian Studies Presidential Award); New Landscapes in Contemporary Italian Cinema (1999), edited for Annali d’Italianistica;  The Gaze and the Labyrinth: The Cinema of Liliana Cavani (2000; Scaglione Prize by the Modern Language Association of America); Lo sguardo e il labirinto (2003; rev. and enlarged Italian edition); a critical edition of Ugo Betti, Delitto all’isola delle capre (2006); and  is General Editor of a two-volume Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies (2007), the first comprehensive reference work on Italian literature and culture to be published in English.Marrone-Puglia has also produced award winning films, including Woman in the Wind  (starring the late Colleen Dewhurst), a documentary feature on Princeton’s intellectual and social history, Images of a University (1996), and Zefirino: The Voice of a Castrato (2007), a documentary film that traces the artistic evolution of the famed castrati singers. She teaches interdisciplinary courses on cinema in conjunction with the Program in Visual Arts, the Program in the Study of Women  and Gender, and the University Center for Human Values. Marrone-Puglia lectures and publishes internationally on contemporary authors, visual culture and gender. She serves on several editorial boards and has been a consultant to university presses. She joined the Princeton faculty in 1985 and has served as Departmental Representative in Romance Languages and Literatures for eight years and as Director of the Program in Italian Studies from 1991-97. She currently serves on the Film Studies Committee, Program in the Study of Women  and Gender, and Program in Italian Studies .
Marrone-Puglia is currently working on a critical study of filmmaker Francesco Rosi.