Cristina Pausini is Sr. Lecturer and Coordinator of Italian at Tufts University and has co-authored four textbooks for the teaching of Italian: Italian Through Film (YUP, 2003), Italian Through Film: The Classics (YUP, 2006), Trame, A Contemporary Italian Reader (YUP, 2009), and Interpretazioni, Italian Language and Culture Through Film (GUP, 2019).