Coming of Age on Film

Anne E. Hardcastle is Associate Professor of Spanish and a member of the Executive Committee for the Film Studies program at Wake Forest University. She has published articles on contemporary Spanish fiction and film in journals such as Anales de la literatura española contemporánea, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, and Film Criticism. Her current research focuses on representations of the Spanish Civil War in recent Spanish films.Roberta Morosini is Associate Professor of Italian at Wake Forest University. Her research interests range from Boccaccio to Medieval Mediterranean studies. She is the author of several publications on Boccaccio and the fourteenth century, including Dante's commentaries, as well as a study of the Roman de Mahomet (1258). She recently co-edited Mediterranoesis. Medieval and Renaissance Voices of Mediterranean Italy (Rome: Salerno Editrice, 2007) and Boccaccio Geografo (Florence: Polistampa, 2009). She is currently working on Traveling with Sinbad between East and West. A Topography of Memory.Kendall Tarte is Associate Professor of French in the Department of Romance Languages at Wake Forest University. In the field of sixteenth-century French studies, she has published numerous articles and a monograph, Writing Places: Sixteenth-Century City Culture and the Des Roches Salon (University of Delaware Press, 2007). Her teaching and research interests also include historiography in the Renaissance, immigration in contemporary French literature, and teaching culture and language using film.