“Wandering Women” Book Talk with Laura Di Bianco

Laura Di Bianco is an Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Her scholarly work lies at the intersection of Modern Italian Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Environmental Humanities. Her first book, Wandering Women. Urban Ecologies of Italian Feminist Filmmaking (Indiana University Press, 2023), investigates the work of contemporary Italian women directors from a feminist and ecocritical perspectives. Supported by the Lauro De Bosis Fellowship at Harvard University, and the Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award, she is currently developing a second book project on Italian cinema and ecology: Crumbling Beauty: Italian Cinema in the Anthropocene. Professor Di Bianco is co–editor of the academic journal MLN, Italian (Modern Language Notes). https://orcid.org/0000–0002–4746–6751 lauradibianco@jhu.edu.