Áine O’Healy is Professor of Italian in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where she teaches Italian cultural studies, Italian cinema, and transnational film studies. In recent years, O’Healy’s scholarship has been centered on audiovisual figurations of race, gender, and sexuality as well as on discourses of transnationality and postcoloniality in Italian cultural production. On these topics she has written over fifty articles and book chapters and has co-edited special issues of Feminist Film and Media Studies and California Italian Studies. In 2007, she coedited the collection Transnational Feminism in Film and Media (Palgrave) with Katarzyna Marciniak and Anikó Imre. With Marciniak and Imre she has also edited Palgrave’s Global Cinema book series since its inception in 2011. In 2019, she published Migrant Anxieties: Italian Cinema in a Transnational Frame (Indiana University Press), which explores Italian filmmakers’ engagement with Italy’s shift from a country of historical emigration to the destination or transition point of millions of aspiring immigrants from the East and the Global South. She has been invited to present her work on this and related topics at Harvard University, Oxford University, the University of Exeter, the University of Innsbruck, and other institutions internationally. In 2009-2010 she received a Fulbright Award to teach at Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza,” and in 2017 she was invited to return to La Sapienza with an international professorship to carry out further research. She is currently pursuing a new project on configurations of transgender migration in contemporary European cinema.