Barbara Zecchi

Barbara Zecchi, PhD University of California Los Angeles, is Professor of Film and Iberian Studies and Director of the Film Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has published widely on feminist film theory, women filmmakers, and adaptation theory. In addition to about hundred articles and numerous video-essays, she is the author, editor or co-editor of ten volumes, including The Gendered Screen (2014), Age/ing and Iberian Cinemas (2021), and Gender-Based Violence in Latin American and Iberian Cinemas (2020). In 2011 she launched the Gynocine Project on women’s cinema. In 2017 she was elected Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain.