Domietta Torlasco

DOMIETTA TORLASCO, Assistant Professor of Italian Studies and Screen Cultures, Ph.D. in Rhetoric, UC Berkeley; M.A. in Critical Studies, UCLA; laurea in Semiotics, University of Bologna.

Her book, The Time of the Crime: Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Italian Film (Stanford University Press, 2008) explores the undoing of the detective genre in the Italian art cinema of the sixties and seventies. Her other publications include: “Desiring Death: Masochism, Temporality, and the Intermittence of Forms,” in Desire of the Analysts: Psychoanalysis and Cultural Criticism, eds. Paul A. Miller and Greg Forter (Albany: SUNY Press, 2008); “Undoing the Scene of the Crime: Perspective and the Vanishing of the Spectator,” in Camera Obscura, no. 64 (2007); "Envisioning the Time of Testimony: The Analyst as the Other Witness," in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society vol. 10, no. 2 (2005).

Torlasco works at the intersection of film theory, phenomenology, and psychoanalysis. Her research and teaching interests also include film noir, feminist theory, and time-based visual art. As a Harper-Schmidt Fellow and an Assistant Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, she has taught courses in Media Aesthetics, Gender Studies, and Cinema and Media Studies. Her second book, provisionally entitled Digital Memory, interrogates the tension between memory and creation, persistence of the past and irruption of the new by focusing on videos, installations, and DVD-ROMs that directly appropriate a variety of film materials. She is currently completing an MFA in Film, Video and New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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