Allison Cooper is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Cinema Studies at Bowdoin College. She has published on contemporary Italian cinema and Italian modernism, including articles on the films “Certi bambini” and “Romanzo criminale” as well as on early-twentieth century poets and writers such as Giuseppe Ungaretti and Paola Masino. She is currently at work on “Modern Rome between the Sacred and the Profane,” a book-length analysis of filmic representations of Rome and their treatment of the city’s dual identity as capital of the Catholic Church and capital of the Italian state. She is curator of the Bowdoin Digital Clip Archive, a searchable repository of digitized film clips enriched with metadata.