Noa Steimatsky

Noa Steimatsky is an American film academic. She graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a BA in English Literature, and moved to the United States, where she got her PhD at the New York University. She was a faculty member at Yale University and University of Chicago, and has received awards and fellowships for her scholarship in the cinema of Italy, including a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship. She wrote the books Italian Locations: Reinhabiting the Past in Postwar Cinema and The Face on Film (2017). Biography Noa Steimatsky was born in Paris, daughter of painter Avigdor Stematsky and microbiologist Tamar Gotlieb-Steimatsky. She worked as a post-production assistant to David Perlov on his 1983 film Diary.

After working as an adjunct professor at the Tisch School of the Arts, School of Visual Arts and Vassar Collage, she moved to Yale University Department of the History of Art as a visiting assistant professor in 1997, and was promoted to assistant professor in 1998 and associate professor in 2005. This book won the 2018 Limina Award for Best International Film Studies Book, and an Honorable Mention from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award.

In 2005, she was an American Academy in Rome Fellow in Modern Italian Studies, during which time she launched her groundbreaking research project on the Cinecittà movie studio as a displaced-persons camp in the postwar era. She lectured on this topic internationally, her essays on the topic were published in both English and Italian. The project inspired a documentary film, Refugees in Cinecittà / Profughi a Cinecittà (dir. Marco Bertozzi, 2012) . When leaving her full-time academic post, she returned to further research on the topic, driven by more discoveries about Cinecittà’s numerous uses and misuses throughout the 1940s . For this project she was awarded an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship in 2017 , a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 2019 , and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019 . Her forthcoming book, Cinecittà at War: The Hidden History of a Great Italian Movie Studio is under contract with Columbia University Press . Steimatsky has published numerous articles, some translated to Italian, French, Hebrew, Portuguese, and Chinese. Her recent essays and lectures intertwine questions of history and poetics.

Steimatsky lives between New York City and Rome .

Filmography

The Face on Film (2017)