Juliette's research centers around contemporary adaptations of Italian Renaissance masterworks, more specifically in the area of digital installations. Her academic interests include Renaissance Art, Cinema and Media Studies, Visual Studies and Adaptation Studies. The focus of her dissertation is Peter Greenaway’s installation series Nine Classic Paintings Revisited, and particularly the interaction between cinematic and pictorial modes of spectatorial engagement.
She earned her MA in Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches Italian language and Visual Studies at the undergraduate level. She successfully completed the CTL Teaching Certificate and the Graduate Certificate in Cinema and Media Studies. She is also co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal Bibliotheca Dantesca.
Juliette Bellacosa holds a B.A. magna cum laude from Wellesley College, with a double major in Art History and French. During her time at Wellesley College, she was an editorial assistant for the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies
Teaching Experience:
• Elementary Italian I (ITAL 0100), Fall 2019; Fall 2020
• Elementary Italian II (ITAL 0200), Spring 2020; Spring 2021
• World Film History 1945-Present (CIMS 1020), Grader, Fall 2020
• World Film History to 1945 (CIMS 1010), Grader, Spring 2021
• Intermediate Italian I & II (ITAL0300-0400), Fall 2021; Spring 2022
• Elementary Italian I (ITAL 0100), Summer 2022
• Italian Visual Studies (ITAL/CIMS 3506), Spring 2023
Conference Participation:
“A Marriage of Mediums: Peter Greenaway's Wedding at Cana”, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference, April 12 -15, 2023.
“A Rinascimento of the Rinascimento: Peter Greenaway’s Leonardo’s Last Supper”, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference, March 31-April 3, 2022.
“Twin Grounds: A Meditation on 'Up Close: Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel' and Ground Zero”, Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), March 10-13, 2022.
“An Outstretched Hand: The Renaissance in Godard’s Le Livre d’Image”, Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), March 10-14, 2021.
“A Rinascimento of the Rinascimento: Peter Greenaway’s Leonardo’s Last Supper”, Annual Conference the Canadian Association for Italian Studies (CAIS), Sorrento, Italy, June 4-7, 2020 (Cancelled due to COVID-19).
“Rossellini and the View in the Broken Mirror”, Italian Graduate Conference at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, November 22-23, 2019.
“Raphael and the Feminine Mystique”, French and Italian Graduate Society Conference (FIGS), University of Pennsylvania, March 30-31, 2019.
Publications:
• “Where Art and Cinema Converge: An Interview with Massimiliano Siccardi.” Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies 11, no. The Centennial of Tonino Guerra, 1920–2020 (January 1, 2023): 173–84. https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00166_7.
• “Rossellini and the View in the Broken Mirror”, La Fusta Vol. 28 – Voices –Fall 2020, (https://la-fusta.blogs.rutgers.edu/)
Awards:
• Salvatori Research Award, 2023
• Penfield Research Award, 2022
• Certificate of Excellence in Teaching, 2021
• Isabelle Eastman Fiske Performance Prize for Acting, 2017
• Harvard Book Prize Award, 2013