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Allison Cooper is an Associate Professor at Bowdoin College, cross-appointed in Romance Languages and Literatures, Italian Studies, and Cinema Studies. She directs Kinolab, a digital humanities platform offering open-access annotated film and media clips. Her research bridges Italian cinema, digital methodologies, and media ethics, with a focus on narrative structures, cultural representation, and technological impacts on film analysis.
- PhD, Italian, University of California-Los Angeles
- MA, Italian, University of California-Los Angeles
- BA, English, Knox College
Her work explores how digital tools can decode cinematic language, with recent projects analyzing close-ups in American film to map representations of race, gender, and sexuality. She also investigates modern Italian cinema's engagement with social issues, including urban identity, mafia narratives, and stardom. Her courses at Bowdoin span film theory, Italian cinema, and AI ethics.
- Mellon Foundation: $100,000 for 'Digital History of the Close-Up' (2023–Present)
- National Humanities Center: $20,000 for AI curriculum design (2022–2024)
- Responsible Computer Science Challenge: $64,000 (2019–2022)
Kinolab, which she co-founded in 2014, serves as a hub for collaborative research and pedagogy, emphasizing crowdsourced film analysis and visualization techniques. Her 2024 SCMS conference presentation on 'Alterity Onscreen' and 2023 keynote on race/gender in close-ups highlight her contributions to media scholarship.
