Marguerite Waller’s interests include film and media, Renaissance comparative literature, transnational feminism, and globalization. Her articles on Dante, Petrarch, Wyatt, Surrey, Shakespeare, Italian and Hungarian film, new media, border art, performance,and theory, globalization, and transnational feminist dialogue are widely published. She is the author of Petrarch’s Poetics and Literary History (1980) and co-editor of Federico Fellini: Contemporary Perspectives (2002). Over the course of three co-edited volumes—Frontline Feminisms: Women, War, and Resistance (2000), Dialogue and Difference: Feminisms Challenge Globalization (2005), The Wages of Empire: Neoliberal Policies, Resistance, and Women’s Poverty (2007), and a special of Social Identities, she has been committed to facilitating communication and collaboration among feminist projects around the world. She has co-organized three international feminist conferences at U.C. Riverside, and convened a transnational feminist Resident Research Project at the University of California Humanities Research Institute. Her teaching interests include feminist discourses, human rights, peace studies, film and media studies, critical theory, and Dante’s Commedia. She is also a firm believer in study abroad. She did graduate work in Italy on a Fulbright Fellowship and has held two Fulbright professorships, one in France and the other in Hungary. In 2007-08 she served as Director of the U.C. Rome Study Center. In the early nineties, she was a member of the women’s art-making collective Las Comadres, active in the San Diego/Tijuana border region. Professor Waller’s current research focuses on transnational and postcolonial filmmaking, human rights and sovereignty, and Dante’s Commedia. Recent publications include: