Karen Beckman - Director
Office: 209A Fisher-Bennett Hall & 209 Jaffe
Telephone: Jaffe: 215.898.3250; Fischer-Bennett Hall: 215.746.3761
Profile: Karen Beckman is the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Associate Professor of Film Studies in the Department of the History of Art and the Director of Cinema Studies. She is also a senior editor of the journal Grey Room. She received her Ph.D. in English from Princeton University, and is the author of Vanishing Women: Magic, Film and Feminism, and co-editor with Jean Ma of Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography (forthcoming, Duke UP).
Office hours (Fall 2007, 209A FBH): Tuesday 2.30 pm to 4.30 pm and by appointment.

Nicola M. Gentili - Associate Director
Office: Fisher-Bennett Hall 209A
Telephone: 215.898.8782
Profile: Nicola M. Gentili graduated in Jurisprudence from "La Sapienza" University of Rome in 1985. As a lawyer, he worked for an International Law Firm in Rome specializing himself in all matters of Italian Civil Law. At the same time, he worked regularly as a film, theater, and cultural critic. Arriving to the United States in February 1992, he was appointed adjunct professor in Italian at Temple University and Drexel University. Since January 1994, he has been a Lecturer in Italian for the University of Pennsylvania where he established Business Italian courses. He is currently the Associate Director of the Cinema Studies Program and the Administrative Director of the Penn-in-Cannes summer program in France.
Office hours: Monday to Friday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in 209A FBH.