13 Facts About Barbara Zecchi

Barbara Zecchi is a feminist film scholar, film critic, videoessayist, and film festival curator.

Barbara Zecchi is professor of Film Studies and director of the Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Barbara Zecchi received a master's degree in literary studies, specializing in Hispanic studies and gender studies, from the University of California, San Diego, and a second master's degree in Italian studies and film studies from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Barbara Zecchi completed her PhD at UCLA with a thesis on the representation of gender-based violence in Spain and Italy.

Barbara Zecchi specializes in feminist film theory, adaptation theory, gender studies and cultural gerontology, video-graphic criticism, and digital humanities.

Barbara Zecchi taught at various European and American universities, including Saint Mary's College of California, California State University, Johns Hopkins University, Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, and in the Master programs of the Universitat de Valencia and the Universitat de Girona.

Barbara Zecchi has lectured and presented her video-graphic essays in Italy, Spain, Portugal, England, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Canada and the United States.

Barbara Zecchi's book has the merit of adding a historical dimension to the phenomenon by tracing the presence of female directors from the origins of Spanish cinema to the present day.

Barbara Zecchi is the founder and director of the Gynocine Project, a Digital Humanities open source project launched with a seed grant of the University of Massachusetts in 2011, with the aim of increasing the visibility of women's cinema.

Barbara Zecchi is vice-director of the international multidisciplinary network cinemAGEgender based in Birmingham, England, which studies the intersection of cultural gerontology with gender studies and film studies.

Barbara Zecchi has been involved with national and international film festivals in different capacities.

Barbara Zecchi was a member of the Official Jury of the Film Festival Cines del Sur in Granada, Spain, in 2014, and a member of the Flecos Awards Jury in 2017.

Barbara Zecchi participated at MICGenero Film Festival in Mexico in 2016 as a member of the Gender Lab Jury, and in 2018 with Ruby Rich she conducted a workshop on Feminism and Queer Theory.