Maria San Filippo is an American author and educator. Her first book, The B Word, won the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction; [1] [2] she also won the 2023 award for Appropriate Behavior. [3] [4]
San Filippo is also an associate professor at Emerson College. [5]
San Filippo attended the London School of Economics before receiving a bachelor of arts in Film Studies and Political from Wellesley College. [5] She went on to receive a master of arts fin Cinema Studies from New York University, [6] and Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. [5]
In the 2020–21 school year, San Filippo was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. [6]
Aside from writing, San Filippo has been a lecturer at Wellesley College (2004, 2010–2013), University of California, Los Angeles (2007-2008), Harvard University (2010-2013), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2012); Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Wellesley College (2008-2010); research associate at Five College Women's Studies Research Center (2012-2013); visiting assistant professor at Indiana University, Bloomington (2012-2013); assistant professor and director at University of the Arts (2016-2020); and assistant then associate professor at Goucher College (2016-2020). [5] She has taught visual and media arts, communication and media studies, film and media studies, and gender studies. [5]
San Filippo is currently an associate professor in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College. [5] [6] Her academic work focuses "on screen media’s intersections with gender and sexuality, focusing on feminist and queer works of contemporary film and television." [6] She is also editor-in-chief of New Review of Film & Television Studies. [5]
The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television was published April 1, 2013 by Indiana University Press. In 2014, the book won the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction. [1] [2]
Appropriate Behavior, published in 2022 by McGill–Queen's University Press, also won the won the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction, in 2023.
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