معرفی
Daniel Evan Paul serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Italian at Brigham Young University's College of Humanities. He teaches advanced Italian language courses, literature surveys, and cultural history seminars within BYU's Italian program.
His educational background includes:
- PhD in Italian and Cinema from The Ohio State University (2019)
- MA in Italian Studies from The Ohio State University (2014)
- BA in Linguistics and Italian from Brigham Young University (2012)
Paul's research interrogates representations of gender, trauma, and identity in contemporary Italian visual culture. His work critically examines masculinities through teen cinema, analyzes female spectatorship in popular romance films, and explores disability narratives within post-unification cultural production. He employs intersectional frameworks connecting cinema studies with memory theory and postcolonial discourse.
His 2022-2024 publications reveal a concentrated focus on Italian teen cinema as a site for negotiating cultural traumas. Key thematic clusters include queer temporalities in coming-of-age narratives, racial politics in genre filmmaking, and evolving constructions of masculinity across transnational contexts. These works consistently engage with contemporary Italian sociopolitical debates through cinematic analysis.
Professional engagement includes:
- American Association for Italian Studies (2017–present)
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies (2017–present)
- American Association of Teachers of Italian (2012–present)
- Advanced Placement Program service (2020–2022)
