Jacqueline Reich

Jacqueline Reich is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. Her areas of expertise include star studies, masculinity, film history and theory, fashion studies, and Italian and Italian American cinema. She is the author of Beyond the Latin Lover: Marcello Mastroianni, Masculinity, and Italian Cinema (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2004) and co-editor of Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922-1942 (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2002). She also founded the book series New Directions in National Cinemas for Indiana University Press, which she curated until 2015. In addition, she has published and lectured widely on Italian American film, fashion and Italian cinema, and early twentieth-century physical culture in the United States and Italy. She has recently published two new books: The Maciste Films of Italian Silent Cinema (Forthcoming, Indiana UP, 2015), in collaboration with the National Film Museum in Turin, and Divi. La mascolinità nel cinema italiano (Donzelli, 2015), with Catherine O'Rawe. In Fall 2011 she was awarded a mid-career fellowship from the Howard Foundation at Brown University.

EDUCATION

• PhD in Italian from the University of California at Berkeley
• BA in Romance Languages from Dartmouth

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• The Maciste Films of Italian Silent Cinema (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2015), honored as the 2015 best book in film and media studies by the American Association of Italian Studies; runner-up for The 2016 Bridge Book Prize, and finalist for the Theater Library Association Richard Wall Memorial Award
• Divi. La mascolinità del cinema italiano (Male Stardom, Italian Style) (Donzelli, 2015), co-authored with Catherine O'Rawe
• Beyond the Latin Lover: Marcello Mastroianni, Masculinity, and Italian Cinema (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2004

I am co-editor of Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922-1942 (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2002), and I curated the book series New Directions in National Cinemas for Indiana University Press from 2005-2015. In addition, I have published and lectured widely on Italian American film, fashion and Italian cinema, and early twentieth-century physical culture in the United States and Italy.