Eugenia Paulicelli is a professor of Italian Studies,

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, and

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and The

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. She is also the founder and director of the Fashion Studies Program at The Graduate Center. Paulicelli writes the column “Fashionology” for ''La Voce di New York'', is a member of the advisory board for Women’s Studies Quarterly, and is on the editorial board of the academic journal ''Fashion, Film and Consumption.'' As an author, she is largely collected by libraries worldwide.

Biography

Lucia Eugenia Paulicelli was born on January 28, 1958 in

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to Nunzio and Anna Paulicelli. She is the youngest of three children. Paulicelli received her laurea from the

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, in

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and literary studies. After completing her PhD in Italian and French at the

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, she taught in the Department of Italian Studies at

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in Massachusetts. She joined the faculty at

in 1992 as a professor in the Department of

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. In 1999, she was appointed to the PhD Program in

and, in 2002, she was appointed to the

Certificate Program, also at The

. Paulicelli’s scholarly work is wide-ranging and interdisciplinary. Her research focuses on visual and

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, and the relationship in literature, media, film, and fashion between the word and the image. Her research in Fashion Studies examines how fashion functions as an industry and as a symbolic force, mediated across time and space. She has taught courses on fashion cultures, film and screen media, Italian literature, and national identity. Additionally, she has curated several exhibitions including "The Fabric of Cultures: Fashion, Identity, Globalization," which was held at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum at

in 2006 and traveled to the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco in 2008. In 2010, she curated “Fashion + Film: The 1960s Revisited” held at the James Gallery at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and also in 2010 co-curated the New York edition of the “Birds of Paradise” film festival from

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, London. In 2012, she curated a film series at the

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celebrating the centenary of

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’s birth. She is a guest professor in the Fashion Studies PhD program at The

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was awarded the Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professorship at the

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in 2013. Paulicelli lives in

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with her husband, Dr. David Ward, who was also an Italian Professor at Wellesley College, before he retired in 2023. They married in Paulicelli's hometown, Canosa di Puglia, on June 11, 1994. In February 1998, they had their only daughter, Anna, who attended

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and

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Bibliography

* ''Fashion under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt, Second Edition'' Bloomsbury Academic / Berg Publishers, 2025 * The Fabric of Cultures: Systems in the Making, QCArtCenter, City University of New York, 2017, / 978-8826494876. * ''Italian Style: Fashion & Film from Early Cinema to the Digital Age'',

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, 2016, / 978-1441189158. * '' Rosa Genoni: Fashion is a Serious Business / La moda é una cosa seria'', Italy: Deleyva Editore, 2015 * ''Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy: From Sprezzatura to Satire'',

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, 2014, * ''The Fabric of Cultures: Fashion, Identity, and Globalization'',

, 2009, / 9780415775427 * ''Fashion under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt'',

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, 2004,

References

External links

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Eugenia Paulicelli - Fashionology column in La Voce di New York

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