Expertise

Italian, Renaissance Art, Visual Studies, and Adaptation Studies

Biography

Juliette Bellacosa received her PhD in Italian Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. She teaches Italian language and Visual Studies at the undergraduate level. Her research examines the interactions between cinematic and pictorial modes of spectatorial engagement in new media adaptations, while her scholarly interests include Renaissance Art, Cinema and Media Studies, and Adaptation Studies.  Bellacosa has published in the Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies and is co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal Bibliotheca Dantesca. She has presented papers at the Modern Languages Association Convention, the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, and at the Northeast Modern Languages conference, among others.

Selected Publications

• Bellacosa, Juliette. “Where Art and Cinema Converge: An Interview with Massimiliano Siccardi.” Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies 11, no. The Centennial of Tonino Guerra, 1920–2020 (January 1, 2023): 173–84. https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00166_7.

Courses Taught

• ITAL 1002