Noa Steimatsky

Asst. Prof. of History of Art and Film Studies
noa.steimatsky@yale.edu

Noa Steimatsky teaches Film Studies under the auspices of the History of Art Department. She holds an MA degree in English and a PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University. She teaches core Film Studies courses such as Film Theory and Aesthetics, and Close Analysis. Her other areas of research and teaching include questions of realism, surrealism, landscapes and Locations, the face, Italian and French cinemas, tropes and figures in film and theory, the musical film. She has lectured and published articles in these areas. Her book, Italian Locations: Reinhabiting the Past in Postwar Cinema, is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press. Her on-going project, "On the Face of Film," won a Getty research fellowship and she has also been awarded the American Academy in Rome Prize for her work on "Transitional Spaces in Post-War Cinemas."