Barbara Zecchi
Barbara Zecchi (PhD University of California, Los Angeles) is Full Professor and Head of the Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. With a focus on feminist film theory, women filmmakers, aging studies, and videographic criticism, Zecchi has lectured widely in Europe, Africa, United States, Latin America, and Canada, and has published over 100 articles in scholarly journals. She is the author, editor, or coeditor of 11 volumes, including Women out of focus (Icaria 2014) (named “the most influential book of a decade” by the Spanish daily newspaper El Diario), and Gender-based Violence in Latin American and Iberian Cinemas (Routledge 2021). In 2017 she was elected associate member of the Academy of Motion Pictures of Spain. A prolific video-essayist, trained at Middlebury College Scholarship in Sound & Image | Workshop on Videographic Criticism where she returned in 2023 as guest mentor, her work has been featured in the Sight and Sound ‘Best Video Essay’ polls of the British Film Institute in 2021, 2022, and 2023. Zecchi's video essays serve as vehicles for her feminist interventions, and for her inquiries on the use of accented voices. In 2022 she joined [in]Transition, the Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies as co-editor-in-chief.