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Join us for our last Fall Open Houses and experience our beautiful, riverfront campus firsthand. Learn more about Marist’s academic experience, the admissions process, and get an inside look at life as a Red Fox! You'll have the opportunity to hear directly from students, faculty, and staff about what makes the Marist Community so special. Register Below:
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Jacqueline Reich, PhD
Professor of Film, Television, and Media Arts
Bio
Dr. Jacqueline Reich is Professor of Film, Television, and Media Arts at Marist University, and President of the American Association of Italian Studies (2025-2028); she is also a member of the doctoral faculty at the University of Florence’s History of Art and Performance Ph.D. program (SAGAS). Before joining the Marist faculty, she was Associate Professor of Comparative Literary and Cultural Analysis at Stony Brook University; Professor and Chair of the Communication and Media Studies Department at Fordham Univeristy; and Dean of the School of Communication and the Arts at Marist University. She is the author of The Maciste Films of Italian Silent Cinema (Indiana UP, 2015), winner of the AAIS 2015 Best Book on Film/Media prize and a Finalist for Best Book on Film from the Theatre Library Association; and Beyond the Latin Lover: Marcello Mastroianni, Masculinity, and Italian Cinema and the (Indiana UP, 2004). She is also co-author, with Catherine O’Rawe, of Divi. La mascolinità nel cinema italiano (Donzelli, 2015) and co-editor, with Piero Garofalo, of Reviewing Fascism: Italian Cinema 1922-1943 (Indiana UP, 2002). She is also Co-PI, with Dr. Katherine Lapenta-Long, of the oral history project, the Bronx Italian American History Initiative. She is a member of the Editorial Board of L’avventura.International Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Landscapes and of the Columbia University Modern Italian Studies seminar.
Education
PhD, Italian, University of California, Berkeley (1994)
MA, Italian, University of California, Berkeley (1988)
BA, Romance Languages, Dartmouth College (1987)
Research Interests / Areas of Focus
Stardom and Celebrity
Film History
Italian and Italian American cinema
Fashion and Film
Selected Publications
BOOKS:
The Maciste Films of Italian Silent Cinema (Indiana University Press, 2015)
Divi. La mascolinità nel cinema italiano, with Catherine O'Rawe (Stars: Masculinity in Italian Cinema, Donzelli, 2015)
Beyond the Latin Lover: Marcello Mastroianni, Masculinity and Italian Cinema (Indiana University Press, 2004)
Co-editor (with Piero Garofalo, University of New Hampshire) and Contributor, Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922-1943 (Indiana University Press, 2002)
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Lotti, D; Reich, J., co-editors of and introduction to a special issue of Immagine: Journal of the Italian Film History Association, "Models of Masculinity and Stardom in International Silent Cinema" (2023).
"Place, Race, and the Picturesque in Bronx Italian American Oral Histories Remembering and representing the urban immigrant experience in the twentieth century," co-written with Kathleen LaPenta. Words and Silences 10.1 (2022)
"Performative Ethnicity, Embodied Memory, and Oral History in the Narratives from the Bronx Italian American Initiative," co-written with Kathleen LaPenta. Italian American Review 10.1 (Winter 2020): 1-18.
"Mob Wives: Exploitation or Empowerment," co-written with Fatima Karim in Mafia Movies: A Reader, Second Edition (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020): 163-170.
"The Digital Afterlife of Italian Cinema." L'avventura. International Journal of Italian Film and Media Landscapes 1/2018: 3-18.
"Maciste Goes to War: Maciste Alpino,"Journal of Modern Italian Studies 22.2 (2016): 324-339.
"Martin Scorsese, European Cinema and Masculinity," co-written with Giorgio Bertellini. The Martin Scorsese Reader, ed. Aaron Baker (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).
"Slave to Master: The Racial Metamorphosis of Maciste in Italian Silent Cinema," Film History 25.3 (2013): 32-56.
"Slave to Fashion: Masculinity, Suits, and the Maciste Films of Italian Silent Cinema," Fashion in Film, ed. Adrienne Munich (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011): 236-259.
"'The World's Most Perfectly Developed Man: Charles Atlas, Physical Culture, and the Inscription of American Masculinity," Men & Masculinities 12.2 (June 2010): 444-461.
"Stars, Gender and Nation: Marcello Mastroianni and Italian Masculinity," Screening Genders, eds. Krin Gabbard and William Luhr (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2008): 49-60.
"Undressing the Latin Lover: Marcello Mastroianni, Fashion, and La dolce vita." Fashion Culture, eds. Stella Bruzzi and Pamela Church Gibson (Routledge, 2000): 209-220.
"Reading, Writing, and Rebellion: Sexuality, Collectivity, and Specularity in the Italian Schoolgirl Comedy, 1934-1943." Mothers of Invention: Women, Italian Fascism and Culture, ed. Robin Pickering-Iazzi (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995): 220-251.
Selected Presentations
"The Beauty of Maciste," Cabiria Atlas, University of Turin 2025.
"Bonnie, Beene, and the Female Gangster" (with Dr. Mario Roman, Marist University), Fashion Media Conference, Southern Methodist University, February 2025.
Keynote Address, "The Whiteness of Shady Women," Donne tenebrose/Shady Women, University of Pisa, December 2022
Keynote Address, "The Bronx Italian American History Initiative, Representation, and Race: The Case for Digital Community-Engaged Scholarship", NEMLA Annual Conference, March 2022
"Masculinity Studies and #MeToo: Thoughts on Representation and Responsibility," Rutgers University, October 2018
Keynote Address, "The Digital Afterlife of La dolce vita", Celebrity and Cultural Industries: Film, Fashion, Music, Publicity, Bologna, Italy, December 2016
Awards and Honors
Visiting Professorship, University of Florence, Fall 2016
Howard Fellowship, George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, Brown University (Fall 2011)
