The Self We Save: Interview with Theresa Carilli, May 2021

COLLEEN RYAN is the author of Sex, the Self, and the Sacred: Women in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini (University of Toronto Press, 2007) and coeditor of two volumes dedicated to the teaching of foreign languages through theater arts: Set the Stage! Italian Language, Literature, and Culture through Theater (Yale University Press, 2009) and Dramatic Interactions: Teaching Languages, Literatures, and Cultures through Theater (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011). She is co-author of Caleidoscopio (Pearson) a second-year Italian program, with strong literary, cinematic, and theatrical components that is now an open educational resource. In 2015, she published Integrating the Arts: Creative Thinking about Foreign Language Curricula and Program Development and in 2022 she coedited a special issue of Annali d'Italianistica: Pasolini e la libertà espressiva. Linga, stile, potere (Designs, Luglio, Minardi, Ryan). Ryan's shorter publications include articles and chapters on gender, race, and sexuality in Italian and Italian American literature and film, Italian pedagogy and professional development, and teaching languages and intercultural competence through the arts. She has most recently written on the films of Sofia Coppola and Italian American women playwrights. Ryan's current projects include a critical anthology of Italian American theater and a monograph on female directors of Italian descent working in and out of Hollywood. She is associate editor of Italica, serves on the editorial board of Studi Pasoliniani, and is co-book and film review editor for gender/sexuality/italy.