Colleen Ryan

Colleen Ryan is Associate Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs at Indiana University, where she collaboratively oversees tenure and promotion procedures, faculty leadership development, and programming for faculty success. She is Director of the Initiative for the Advancement of Women and Liaison to the Institute for Advanced Study’s mid-career mentorship program. Her current interests include meditation and restorative practices.  

Colleen Ryan has published on various facets of gender and sexuality in Italian cinema, on Italian diaspora and ethnicity studies in the US, on the teaching a foreign languages through the arts, particularly theater, and professional and curriculum development. 

Over the years, she has taught an array of courses on Italian literature and film, gender and sexuality studies, on Italian-American identities, and on foreign language career development. She has served as Director of Language Instruction and Director of Undergraduate Studies and has been elected to leadership positions in national and international associations for Italian Studies for Foreign Language Program Direction.