{"id":2209,"date":"2018-08-20T10:48:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T14:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/grll\/?post_type=people&p=2209"},"modified":"2025-08-29T10:30:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T14:30:40","slug":"laura-di-bianco","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/directory\/laura-di-bianco\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Di Bianco"},"featured_media":6305,"template":"","role":[10436],"filter":[73],"class_list":["post-2209","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","role-aa-faculty","filter-italian"],"acf":[],"post_meta_fields":{"_edit_lock":["1756477852:654"],"_edit_last":["654"],"ecpt_people_alpha":["DiBianco"],"ecpt_position":["Assistant Professor of Italian Studies, Affiliated Faculty with the Center for Advanced Media Studies, Environmental Science and Studies Program, The Institute for Planetary Health"],"ecpt_degrees":["PhD, The Graduate Center, CUNY"],"ecpt_email":["lauradibianco@jhu.edu"],"ecpt_office":["Gilman 492"],"ecpt_expertise":["Italian Cinema, 20th and 21st Italian Literature, Women\u2019s and Gender Studies, Environmental Humanities."],"ecpt_bio":["

Laura Di Bianco is Assistant Professor of Modern Italian Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of cinema studies, modern and contemporary literature. women\u2019s and gender studies, and environmental humanities.<\/p>\r\n

As a multidisciplinary scholar, she contributes to several programs at Hopkins; she is affiliated faculty member at the Center for Advanced Media Studies (CAMS), and collaborator with the Programs for the Study of Women\u2019s Gender and Sexuality (WGS), Environmental Science and Studies, and the Institute for Planetary Health.<\/p>\r\n

Professor Di Bianco is the author of Wandering Women. Urban Ecologies of Italian Feminist Filmmaking<\/em> (Indiana University Press, 2023) and essays that have appeared in peer-reviewed academic journals such as The Italianist<\/em>, California Italian Studies<\/em>, Film and Philosophy<\/em>, ISLE<\/em> (Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment), and edited volumes, among which are Waste and Discard Studies in the Mediterranean<\/em> (Peter Lang, 2024) and Ecologia e lavoro <\/em>(Mimesis, 2023). Her research has been supported by the Lauro De Bosis Fellowship at Harvard University, the Bogliasco Fellowship in the Humanities, the JHU\u2019s Catalyst Award, and the Italian Academy\u2019s Fellowship at Columbia University (forthcoming, 2026).<\/p>\r\n

She is currently developing her second book project:\u00a0Crumbling Beauty<\/em>. An Environmental History of Italian Cinema<\/em>,and has been invited to write a monograph on acclaimed filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher.<\/p>\r\n

At Hopkins, Professor Di Bianco teaches surveys of Italian cinema, upper-level undergraduate classes such as\u00a0Black Italy,<\/em> Climate Change Narratives<\/em>, and graduate seminars on modern and contemporary Italian literature. She often hosts lectures, workshops, book talks, and film screenings that brings JHU faculty members and students in dialogue with scholars, translators, novelists, and artists.<\/p>\r\n

Professor Di Bianco is co-editor for\u00a0Modern Language Notes: Italian Issue<\/em>\u00a0and has collaborated with the online journal\u00a0Gender| Sexuality| Italy<\/em>.<\/p>"],"ecpt_teaching":["

Graduate Seminars<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

On Ruins and Ruination: A Material Ecocritical Exploration of Italian Cinema (Spring 2025)<\/p>\r\n

Prospettive Decoloniali: Cinema e Letteratura Contemporanea in Italia (Fall 2024)<\/p>\r\n

Italo Calvino: From the Woods to the Moon (Fall 2023)<\/p>\r\n

Italy and the Environmental Humanities (Spring 2021)<\/p>\r\n

Nomadic Narratives: Italian Women\u2019s Literature and Cinema (Fall 2019)<\/p>\r\n

Crumbling Beauty: Environmental Crises in Italian Literature and Cinema (Spring 2018)<\/p>\r\n

First-Person Cinema: Ethics and Aesthetics of Italian Documentary Filmmaking (Fall 2017)<\/p>\r\n

Dissolving Margins: Space and Female Subjectivity in the Work of Elena Ferrante (Spring 2017)<\/p>\r\n

Fl\u00e2nerie and Female Authorship in Contemporary Italian Cinema (Fall 2016)<\/p>\r\n

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Upper-Level Undergraduate Courses (open to graduate students)<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Black Italy:\u00a0 Post-Colonial Literature and Cinema (Fall 2024, Fall 2021)<\/p>\r\n

Climate Change Narratives (Spring 2023)<\/p>\r\n

Elena Ferrante and Her Brilliant Friends (Spring 2022)<\/p>\r\n

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Undergraduate Courses<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Great Books at Hopkins (Fall 2021)<\/p>\r\n

Ecocinema: Framing Italy\u2019s Environmental Crises (Fall 2019)<\/p>\r\n

Italian Cinema: The Classics, the Forgotten, and the Emergent (Fall 2023, Spring 2021, Fall 2018, Fall 2017)<\/p>\r\n

Italian Journeys: Modern and Contemporary Green Literature (Fall 2018)<\/p>\r\n

Food for Thought: Identity, Politics and Gastronomy (Summer 2018, JHU Bologna)<\/p>\r\n

Vagabonds and Ramblers: Space & Place in Women\u2019s Cinema (Spring 2018)<\/p>\r\n

Italian Eco-cinema: Inconvenient Truths from 1945 to 2015 (Spring 2017)<\/p>\r\n

Italian Journeys: Landscapes of Memories and Desires (Fall 2016)<\/p>"],"ecpt_publications":["

Books<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Wandering Women: Urban Ecologies of Italian Feminist Filmmaking. <\/em>Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023.<\/p>\r\n

Selected Reviews<\/u>:<\/p>\r\n