Millicent Marcus

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Italian Department
millicent.marcus@yale.edu

Millicent received her Ph.D. at Yale in 1974). She specializes in Italian culture from the interdisciplinary perspectives of literature, history, and film. She is the author of An Allegory of Form: Literary Self-Consciousness in "The Decameron," (Stanford French and Italian Studies, l979), Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism (Princeton, l986), Filmmaking by the Book: Italian Cinema and Literary Adaptation (Johns Hopkins, l993), and After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age (Johns Hopkins, 2002), as well as journal articles and encyclopedia entries on her fields of interest. Because literacy in the 21st century must be broadened to include the mass media as well as the written text, she brings a cultural studies approach to her teaching and research. She is currently completing a project entitled "Return of the Repressed: Italian Cinema and Holocaust Memory."