About

Maria San Filippo (Ph.D., Cinema and Media Studies, UCLA) is an associate professor in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College (Boston). She authored the Lambda Literary Award-winning The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television (2013) and Provocauteurs and Provocations: Screening Sex in 21st Century Media (2021), both published by Indiana University Press, and edited the collection After ‘Happily Ever After’: Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age (Wayne State University Press, 2021). She received her second Lambda Literary Award for her latest book, a Queer Film Classics volume on Desiree Akhavan’s Appropriate Behavior published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. She was a 2021-22 Fulbright U.S. Scholar in the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. From 2020-2023 she was Editor-in-Chief of the academic quarterly journal New Review of Film & Television Studies.

Banner image: Edward Hopper, New York Movie, 1939