Angela Dalle Vacche
Angela Dalle Vacche is a professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her expertise lies in film studies, specifically world cinema, and Italian cinema, with several books and publicized materials on the subject. Vacche focuses on exploring the role of gender in Italian cinema. Her book “Diva: Defiance and Passion in Early Italian Cinema” delves into the topic of the Italian diva and the “emancipation and self-discovery” that the role offers to its female audience. Education. Vacche received her M.S. in American Studies in 1980 from Mount Holyoke  College. In 1985, she received her doctorate in Films Studies from the University of Iowa. Her dissertation received honorable mention from the Society for Cinema Studies Dissertation Contest. Career. Vacche worked as an associate professor at Yale University (from 1987-1997) and Emory (from 1997-2001), the latter of which she was nominated for Phi Beta Kappa's Excellence in Teaching award in 2000. In 2001, she joined the Georgia Institute of Technology as a tenured professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication where she is a professor of film studies. Vacche also frequently lectures internationally, having spent  the summer of 2016 lecturing on Cinema and the Museum at the Institute for Marketing and Technology in Lucca, Italy and traveling throughout Europe, Asia, and Australia to lecture on similar topics. She taught classes on a vast selection of film related topics, including “Identity in Film”, “Vampires, Modernity, Technology in Literature and Film,” and “Cinema and Architecture, Space and Landscape.” Vacche is an expert on Italian cinema, having published numerous works exploring the topic. Two of her books, “Diva: Defiance and Passion in Early Italian Cinema” and “The Body in the Mirror: Shapes of History in Italian Cinema,” delve  into the roles that gender, culture, and history have played in this genre. She published several articles on this topic in publications such as “Le Paysage du cinema italien” in CinemAction and “The Diva-Image in 1911: Visual Form, Cultural Paradigm, Perceptual Model” in Cinema and Other Arts. Vacche also directed a number of films on Italian cinema. The 2000 New York Film Festival showing of her “Passion and Defiance: Silent Divas of the Italian Cinema,” a 15-minute retrospective film on the Italian diva, was acknolwedged as “Best Event of the Year” by "Art Forum". Angela Dalle Vacche Angela