The Romance Studies Department is delighted to announce that Dr. Jim Carter will be joining us as a new Lecturer in Italian, beginning in the fall 2021 term.<\/p>\n
Jim Carter encountered Italian culture as a study abroad student, when he worked as a film journalist in Florence, Italy. He went on to earn a PhD in Italian from the University of Michigan, with a concentration in Film Studies, and he now sits on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies<\/em>.<\/p>\n His teaching and research interests include Italian language, literature, cinema, media and the environmental humanities. He has published six peer-reviewed journal articles or book chapters about twentieth-century industrial culture, including studies of writers (Fortini, Giudici, Ottieri, Volponi, Buzzi), filmmakers (Olmi) and editors (Vittorini, Calvino). He is the co-editor of the essay collection Italian Industrial Literature and Film: Perspectives on the Representation of Postwar Labor<\/em> (Peter Lang, 2021) and the author of the book Olivetti and the Cultural History of Italian Business<\/em> (in progress). In 2018-2019, he won the Rome Prize in Modern Italian Studies from the American Academy in Rome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Romance Studies Department is delighted to announce that Dr. Jim Carter will be joining us as a new Lecturer in Italian, beginning in the fall 2021 term. Jim Carter encountered Italian culture as a study abroad student, when he worked as a film journalist in Florence, Italy. He went on to earn a PhD […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1714,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16403],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1714"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22726,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22724\/revisions\/22726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}