Eugenia Paulicelli is a professor of Italian Studies, Comparative Literature, and Women’s Studies at Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. She is also the founder and director of the Fashion Studies Program at The Graduate Center.[1]
Paulicelli writes the column “Fashionology” for La Voce di New York, is a member of the advisory board for Women’s Studies Quarterly, and is on the editorial board of the academic journal Fashion, Film and Consumption.[2][3] As an author, she is largely collected by libraries worldwide.[4]
Biography
editEugenia Paulicelli received her laurea from the University of Bari, Italy, in semiotics and literary studies.[5] After completing her PhD in Italian and French at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, she taught in the Department of Italian Studies at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She joined the faculty at Queens College in 1992 as a professor in the Department of Romance Languages. In 1999, she was appointed to the PhD Program in Comparative Literature and, in 2002, she was appointed to the Women’s Studies Certificate Program, also at The Graduate Center, CUNY.[1]
Paulicelli’s scholarly work is wide-ranging and interdisciplinary.[6] Her research focuses on visual and material culture, and the relationship in literature, media, film, and fashion between the word and the image. Her research in Fashion Studies examines how fashion functions as an industry and as a symbolic force, mediated across time and space. She has taught courses on fashion cultures, film and screen media, Italian literature, and national identity.[1]
Additionally, she has curated several exhibitions including "The Fabric of Cultures: Fashion, Identity, Globalization," which was held at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College in 2006 and traveled to the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco in 2008.[1] In 2010, she curated “Fashion + Film: The 1960s Revisited” held at the James Gallery at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and also in 2010 co-curated the New York edition of the “Birds of Paradise” film festival from Saint Martin's School of Art, London.[7] In 2012, she curated a film series at the Museum of the Moving Image celebrating the centenary of Michelangelo Antonioni’s birth.[8]
She is a guest professor in the Fashion Studies PhD program at The University of Stockholm was awarded the Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professorship at the University of Bristol in 2013.[1]
Paulicelli lives in Madison, Connecticut with her husband, Dr. David Ward, who was also an Italian Professor at Wellesley College, before retiring in 2023. They married in Paulicelli's hometown, Canosa di Puglia, on June 11, 1994. They have one daughter, Anna, (born 1998) who attended Trinity College.
Bibliography
edit- The Fabric of Cultures: Systems in the Making, QCArtCenter, City University of New York, 2017, ISBN 8826494878 / 978-8826494876.[9]
- Italian Style: Fashion & Film from Early Cinema to the Digital Age, Bloomsbury Academic, 2016, ISBN 1441189157 / 978-1441189158.[10]
- Rosa Genoni: Fashion is a Serious Business / La moda é una cosa seria, Italy: Deleyva Editore, 2015[11]
- Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy: From Sprezzatura to Satire, Routledge, 2014, ISBN 9781472411709[12]
- The Fabric of Cultures: Fashion, Identity, and Globalization, Routledge, 2009, ISBN 9780415775434 / 9780415775427[13]
- Fashion under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt, Bloomsbury Academic / Berg Publishers, 2004, ISBN 9781859737781[14]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e "Eugenia Paulicelli". The Graduate Center. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
- ^ "Fashionology". La Voce di New York. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
- ^ "WSQ Board Members". WSQ. Archived from the original on 2 March 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
- ^ "Paulicelli, Eugenia". worldcat.org. Retrieved September 29, 2016.
- ^ "Eugenia Paulicelli". Vogue. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
- ^ "Faculty". Queens College. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
- ^ "1960s Revisited". James Gallery. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
- ^ "Antonioni Documentaries". Museum of the Moving Image. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
- ^ "Events - Rosenthal Library, Queens College, CUNY". library.qc.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-29.
- ^ "Italian Style (2016)". Bloomsbury Publishing. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
- ^ "Rosa Genoni". Italy: Deleyva Editore. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
- ^ "Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy". Routledge. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
- ^ "The Fabric of Cultures". Routledge. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
- ^ "Fashion under Fascism". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 23 February 2016.