Valentina Vitali

Prof. Valentina Vitali is a film historian and theorist. Her research explores the interconnections between aesthetics, history, and economics from a comparative perspective. She has published extensively on cinema in South Asia, aspects of Indian visual culture, and women’s cinema. Valentina has edited a special issue of BioScope on contemporary South Asian women’s cinema, and programmed, among other events, Contemporary South Asian Films by Women (FACT, Liverpool) and Alia Syed: Recent Works (Whitechapel Gallery, London), Award-winning Docs from Myanmar (Close-Up Cinema, London), and Beyond Bollywood: Shorts from South Asia (Flatpack Festival, Birmingham).