Background
Barbara Zecchi, Professor and Director of the Film Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is a feminist film scholar, film critic, and videoessayist. Born in London, and raised and educated in Italy, she was formed intellectually in Spain and in the United States. She received a PhD from the University of California Los Angeles, and more recently a certificate in Screenwriting from the he Universidad Rey Juan Carlos/ Escuela de Guion of Madrid, in Spain, and she was trained as a videoessayist at Middlebury College’s Digital Liberal Arts Summer Institute, Scholarship in Sound and Image. She joined the University of Massachusetts after teaching at different universities in Europe and in the US (such as Carlos III University of Madrid, California State University, and the Johns Hopkins). Her research and teaching interests include Spanish, Catalan and Latin American cinemas, feminist film theory, film adaptation theory, gender studies and aging studies, and the use of technology in the humanities. She is the author of the books La pantalla sexuada ("The Gendered Screen," Cátedra 2015), and Desenfocadas ("Women Out of Focus," Icaria 2014); and editor or co-editor of volumes such Tras las lentes de Isabel Coixet (2017), Gynocine: Teoría de género, filmología y práxis cinematográfica (2013), Teoría y práctica de la adaptación fílmica (2011), among others. She has lectured and presented her video-graphic work extensively in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Latin America.
Barbara Zecchi is the co-founder and co-director of the international research network CinemAGEnder and the founder and director of the Digital Humanities Project “Gynocine: Feminisms, Genders and Cinemas”. In 2017 she was elected Member of the Film Academy of Spain (Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España).
