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Professor Áine O’Healy
Professor of Italian and Director of the Humanities Program
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin.
B.A. and M.A., University College Galway/National University of Ireland;

Office: University Hall 3945
Phone: 310.338.7423
Email: aohealy@lmu.edu

Area of Specialization: 

Italian Cinema, Contemporary Italian Literature, Age of the Baroque, Transnational Film Studies, Feminist Theory

Selected Publications:

 

  • "Alterità, abiezione e autorialità in Non ti muovere dal romanzo al film." Sinergie narrative in letteratura e film nell'Italia contemporanea. Guido Bonsaver, Martin McLaughlin, and Franca Pellegrini, eds. Florence: Cesati, 2008. 233-247.
  • “Difficult Discussions: Notes on Teaching Italian Film in North America.” Italian Studies. 63:2 (2008) 269-274.
  • Transnational Feminism in Film and Media. Katarzyna Marciniak Anikó Imre and Áine O’Healy, eds. New York: Palgrave, 2007.
  • “Border Traffic: Reimagining the Voyage to Italy.” Transnational Feminism in Film and Media. Katarzyna Marciniak Anikó Imre and Áine O’Healy, eds. New York: Palgrave, 2007. 59-72
  • “Introduction: Mapping Transnational Feminist Media Studies,” Transnational Feminism in Film and Media. Katarzyna Marciniak Anikó Imre and Áine O’Healy, eds. New York: Palgrave, 2007. 1-18.
  • "Humanity, Hospitality, and the Detention Camp: Screening Migration in Contemporary Italian Cinema." International Journal of the Humanities. 4:3 (2006) 68-77.
  • “Desire and Disavowal in Liliana Cavani’s German Trilogy.” Queer Italia. Gary Cestaro, ed. New York: Palgrave, 2004. 133-152.
  • “Lamerica.” The Cinema of Italy. Giorgio Bertellini, ed. London: Wallflower Press. 2004. 244-253.
  • “Interview with the Vamp: Deconstructing Femininity in Fellini’s Final Films.” Federico Fellini: Contemporary Perspectives. Frank Burke and Marguerite Waller, eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2002. 209-232.
  • “Race, Ethnicity, and the Elusive Dream of Italian Multiculturalism: From Pummarò to L’articolo due.” Romance Languages Annual 12. West Lafayette:  Purdue Research Foundation. 2002.
  • “Violence and the Erotic in Salvatore Piscicelli’s Immacolata e Concetta.” Romance Languages Annual 11. West Lafayette: Purdue Research Foundation. 2001.
  • “Towards a Poor Feminist Cinema: The Experimental Films of Dacia Maraini.” The Pleasure of Writing. Eds. Rodica Diaconescu Blumenfeld and Ada Testaferri. West Lafayette IN: Purdue University Press, 2000. 246-264.
  • “Theatre and Cinema: 1945-2000.” A History of Women’s Writing in Italy. Ed. Letizia Panizza and Sharon Wood. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 254-265.
  • “Revisiting the Belly of Naples: The Body and the City in the Films of Mario Martone” Screen 40:3 (Autumn 1999): 239-256.
  • “Are the Children Watching Us? The Roman Films of Francesca Archibugi.” Annali d’Italianistica 17 (1999): 121-136.