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Domietta Torlasco
Assistant Professor of Italian, Comparative Literature, and Screen Cultures. MFA in Film, Video, and New Media, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Ph.D. in Rhetoric, UC Berkeley; M.A. in Critical Studies, UCLA; laurea in Semiotics, University of Bologna.
Torlasco’s book, The Time of the Crime: Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Italian Film (Stanford University Press, 2008) interrogates the relation between vision and temporality through the image of the “crime scene” and the radical revision it undergoes in postwar Italian cinema. Her articles have appeared in VS-Semiotic Studies, Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies, Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, and in Desire of the Analysts: Psychoanalysis and Cultural Criticism, eds. Paul A. Miller and Greg Forter (SUNY Press, 2008). Her second book, Digital Memory: Antigone, Cinema, and the Archive, explores the tension between memory and creation, the persistence of the past and the irruption of the new, by focusing on digital films and video installations that directly appropriate analog materials. Her film, Antigone’s Noir (U.S., 2008, 25 min., DV), which re-envisions classic film noir with the help of scenes shot in contemporary settings, documentary photographs, and footage from public archives, has played at the Siskel Film Center in Chicago and the Block Cinema in Evanston.
Torlasco works at the intersection of film theory and practice, with a specific interest in phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory. As a Harper-Schmidt Fellow and an Assistant Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago (2003-2007), she taught courses in Media Aesthetics and Cinema and Media Studies. At Northwestern, she teaches courses on Italian cinema, cinema and literature, gender and contemporary visual culture, and critical theory. She has organized the conferences Archives of Cinema/Memories of War (February 2008) and Media Encounters: Reimagining Feminist Thought (October 2009). In the 2009-10 academic year she has been the recipient of a fellowship from the Alice Kaplan Humanities Institute.
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