Giuliana Bruno
Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, FAS
Department of Architecture
Bruno is a film and visual culture scholar and Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. Bruno explores what film shares with the design of space and the visual arts, considering, in particular, architecture and urban culture, painting and three-dimensional arts, fashion and visual culture, map making and the culture of travel. She has published numerous essays and five books. Her latest -Jane and Louise Wilson: A Free and Anonymous Monument (Film and Video Umbrella and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, 2004) - examines the multi-screen art installation of the Turner Prize nominees. For Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film (Verso, 2002), she won the 2004 Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award, a prize awarded to "the world's best book on the moving image." Atlas was also honored as Outstanding Academic Title by the Association of American Libraries in Choice 2004, and named a Book of the Year 2004 in the Guardian. Her Streetwalking on a Ruined Map(Princeton University Press, 2002), a journey through modernity and cultural memory, won the 1993 Katherine Singer Kovacs prize for best book in film studies and received the 1995 Premio Filmcritica, Italy's national book award for moving-image studies. Off Screen was devoted to women and film in Italy (Routledge, 1988), and Immagini allo schermo (Rosenberg & Sellier, 1991) was named one of the 50 Best Books of the First 100 Years of Film History.