Millicent J. Marcus is Sarai Ribicoff Professor of Italian Studies at Yale University. Her specializations include medieval literature, Italian cinema, interrelationships between literature and film, and representations of the Holocaust in post-war Italian culture. She is the author of An Allegory of Form: Literary Self-Consciousness in the ‘Decameron’ (Anma Libri, l979), Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism (Princeton University Press, l986), Filmmaking by the Book: Italian Cinema and Literary Adaptation (Johns Hopkins University Press, l993), After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002), Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz (Toronto University Press, 2007), Italian Film in the Present Tense (Toronto University Press, 2023), and New Reflections on Primo Levi Before and After Auschwitz, co-edited with Risa Sodi, New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011. In recent years, she has developed a scholarly interest in neuro-aesthetics (a branch of cognitive neuro-science) and environmental humanities.
