Lucia Ricciardelli

Lucia Ricciardelli is an assistant professor in the School of Film and Photography at Montana State University in Bozeman, where she teaches, photography, film and documentary studies and mentors graduate students in the M.F.A. program in Science and Natural History Filmmaking. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, Italy, she also holds a Ph.D. in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Currently, she is performing a transnational comparative study of American and Italian documentary filmmaking practices, investigating the ways in which public concerns are mediated by nonfiction film in different national contexts.