Ermelinda Campani

Personal bio
Ermelinda M. Campani is the Spogli Family Director of Stanford's Breyer Center for Overseas Studies in Florence. A native of Emilia Romagna (Italy), she earned an M.A. in Italian literature and a Ph.D. with an emphasis in film studies from Brown University. Prior to joining Stanford University in 1993, she taught courses both at Brown and Rhode Island School of Design and served as acting director of the Brown University Program in Bologna. She has been teaching film to Stanford undergraduates since 1993. Her teaching and research focus on film history and criticism, film style and interpretation, film culture, modernism and film, feminist film theory. Her published works include a book on Bernardo Bertolucci, one on cinema and the sacred (translated into French in 2007), and a book on cinema's representations of the human body. She has written articles both on European and US film journals, has contributed entries to the encyclopedia of World Cinema and has lectured widely. Her current research revolves around iconology and the film image.

Currently teaching

OSPFLOR 2A: Accelerated First-Year Italian, Part 2 (Autumn, Winter, Spring)
OSPFLOR 22F: Accelerated Second-Year Italian Part B (Autumn, Winter, Spring)
OSPFLOR 15M: Accademia del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Autumn, Winter, Spring)
OSPFLOR 1A: Accelerated First-Year Italian, Part 1 (Autumn, Winter, Spring)
OSPFLOR 3F: First-Year Italian, Third Quarter (Autumn, Winter, Spring)
OSPFLOR 2F: First-Year Italian, Second Quarter (Autumn, Winter, Spring)
OSPFLOR 21F: Accelerated Second-Year Italian, Part A (Autumn, Winter, Spring)
OSPFLOR 15: Lunchtime Talks: Cracking the Italian Code (Autumn, Winter, Spring)
OSPFLOR 1F: First-Year Italian, First Quarter (Autumn, Winter, Spring)
OSPFLOR 100F: University of Florence Courses (Autumn, Spring)
OSPFLOR 31F: Advanced Oral Communication: Italian (Autumn, Winter, Spring)
OSPFLOR 57: Accademia Italiana (Autumn, Winter)
OSPFLOR 27F: Architecture & Power in the Renaissance (Winter)
OSPFLOR 58F: Politics and Society in Italy and Europe (Winter)
OSPFLOR 50R: Made in Italy and the Sustainable Call in Fashion (Winter)
OSPFLOR 72F: The Great Italian Collections (Winter)
OSPFLOR 64F: Migrant Culture and Literature in Italy and the Mediterranean (Winter)
OSPFLOR 87F: Global Transformations and Ethical Visions: Lessons and Legacies from the Cold War (Winter)
OSPFLOR 19: Finding Florence: A Journey through Art, Cuisine, and History (Autumn, Winter, Spring)
OSPFLOR 31: Florence and the Renaissance: A Critical Itinerary (Autumn)
OSPFLOR 88F: The Medici Phenomenon (Autumn)
OSPFLOR 82F: Healing, Belief, and Science: Medicine Before Modernity (Autumn)
OSPFLOR 74F: Muslims and the Making of Contemporary Italy (Autumn)
OSPFLOR 97F: Politics: Modern Italy and the EU (Spring)
OSPFLOR 71F: Metamorphosis: A Short History of a Long-standing Literary Idea (Spring)
OSPFLOR 78F: A Global Renaissance in Florence (Spring)
OSPFLOR 83F: Studio Marangoni Foundation (Spring)
OSPFLOR 51F: The Medici and the Making of Early Modern Tuscany (Spring)
OSPFLOR 53F: Italy's Fascist Era: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Debates (Spring)
OSPFLOR 77F: Florentine Domestic Architecture and the Birth of Modern Living (Autumn)
OSPFLOR 56F: Investing in the Future: Ethical Finance (Spring)
OSPFLOR 62F: European Security in an Age of Global Rupture (Autumn)
OSPFLOR 60: Exploring Medieval Florence: Art, Architecture, and People (Spring)
OSPFLOR 70F: Environment and Society: Perspectives of Sustainability (Autumn)