Millicent Marcus is Sarai Ribicoff Professor of Italian Studies at Yale University. Her specializations include medieval literature, Italian cinema, interrelationships between literature and film, and representations of the Holocaust in post-war Italian culture. She is the author of An Allegory of Form: Literary Self-Consciousness in the Decameron (1979) Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism (1986), Filmmaking by the Book: Italian Cinema and Literary Adaptation (1993), After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age (2003), Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz (2007), and Italian Film in the Present Tense (2023). Her current research interests include neuro-aesthetics, and eco-criticism