Giovanna Faleschini Lerner (PhD 2005) has been Assistant Professor of Italian at Franklin and Marshall College since 2007, after holding a visiting position there since 2005. Her research interests are contemporary Italian literature and film, with a particular emphasis on the interartistic dialogue between art and literature, as well as cinema and painting. She has published articles on Carlo Levi, Francesco Rosi, and Maria Bellonci, and is currently working on a book-length project on Carlo Levi's "Visual Poetics."