Angela Dalle Vacche is a professor emerita at the Georgia Institute of Technology within its School of Literature, Media, and Communication.
Dalle Vacche worked as an associate professor at Yale University from 1987-1997, and Emory from 1997-2001, where she was nominated for Phi Beta Kappa's Excellence in Teaching award in 2000she was nominated for Phi Beta Kappa's Excellence in Teaching award in 2000[citation needed].
In 2001, she joined the Georgia Institute of Technology as a tenured professor of film studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication.
[2] She has taught classes on a wide range of film-related topics, including “Identity in Film”, “Vampires, Modernity, Technology in Literature and Film,” and “Cinema and Architecture, Space and Landscape.” Dalle Vacche has published several books and articles on Italian cinema.
Two of her books, Diva: Defiance and Passion in Early Italian Cinema and The Body in the Mirror: Shapes of History in Italian Cinema, explore the roles that gender, culture, and history have played in the genre.