Saverio Giovacchini
Professor, History
Affiliate Associate Research Professor, American Studies
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
saverio@umd.edu
Research Expertise
Film Studies and Cultural Studies
Global Interaction and Exchange
United States
Saverio Giovacchini is Professor of History at the University of Maryland where he has served as the director of the Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies on two occasions (2010-3; 2021-2). He is the author of Hollywood Modernism (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001) and Celluloid Atlantic: Hollywood, Cinecittà and the Cinema of the West, 1943-1973 (Albany, NY: Suny Press, 2025). With Robert Sklar, he has edited Global Neorealism: The Transnational History of a Film Style (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2012). His new book project centers on the transnational career of film director Oscar “Budd” Boetticher (1916-2001).