Maria San Filippo
Maria San Filippo is an American author and educator. Her first book, "The B Word," won the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction. She is also an associate professor at Emerson College. Education. San Filippo attended the London School of Economics before receiving a bachelor of arts in Film Studies and Political from Wellesley College. She went on to receive a master of arts fin Cinema Studies from New York University, and Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. In the 2020–21 school year, San Filippo was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar  at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Career. Aside from writing, San Filippo has been a lecturer at Wellesley College (2004, 2010–2013), University of California, Los Angeles (2007-2008), Harvard University (2010-2013), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2012); Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Wellesley College (2008-2010); research associate at Five College Women's Studies Research Center (2012-2013); visiting assistant professor at Indiana University, Bloomington (2012-2013); assistant professor and director at University of the Arts (2016-2020); and assistant then associate professor at Goucher College (2016-2020). She has taught visual and media arts, communication and media studies, film and  media studies, and gender studies. San Filippo is currently an associate professor in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College. Her academic work focuses "on screen media’s intersections with gender and sexuality, focusing on feminist and queer works of contemporary film and television." She is also editor-in-chief of "New Review of Film & Television Studies." Selected texts. Section::::"The B Word" (2013). "The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television" was published April 1, 2013 by Indiana University Press. In 2014, the book won the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction. Maria San Filippo Maria