Maria San Filippo

Maria San Filippo is Associate Professor in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College. She authored the Lambda Literary Award-winning The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television (2013) and Provocauteurs and Provocations: Screening Sex in 21st Century Media (2021), both published by Indiana University Press, and edited the collection After ‘Happily Ever After’: Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age (Wayne State University Press, 2021). Her most recent book, a Queer Film Classics volume on Desiree Akhavan’s Appropriate Behavior (2014), was published in 2022 by McGill-Queen’s University Press and also received a Lambda Literary Award. She was a 2021-22 Fulbright U.S. Scholar in the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. From 2020-23 she was Editor in Chief of New Review of Film and Television Studies.