Features and Interviews About my Work

 

The Incredible True Story of the Oscar Everyone Thought Had Literally Been Stolen, Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Mother Jones, March 2018

“At just 25, Rutigliano has made untangling Oscar lore somewhat of a professional specialty, and although she’s officially an English literature and theatre PhD student at Columbia University, she’s also one of the country’s foremost experts on the award show’s history.”

 

Episode 29: Victorian Pioneers, Shedunnit, January 8, 2020

“Decades before Miss Marple, there were Victorian lady sleuths taking on the world with their bloomers and their bicycles.”

Interview with Olivia Rutigliano, Kim Foster, KCBS Radio San Francisco, March 2018

This Week in Books: We’ve All Been Briefed,” Longform, June 2020

“Rutigliano shows how the multi-layered, formally complex book Bleak House finally allows Dickens to excavate his own misperceptions; many of the novel’s dizzying number of plotlines are touched by the same undercover agent, and only by gathering together the threads, and seeing the work of the police across many narratives, can one begin to glimpse the faulty machinations of justice.”

“Stolen Oscars: History, Markets, and Myths,” Peter Decherney, Forbes, February 2016

“She has done some fascinating research on the history of stolen Oscars, and in the process she uncovered the truth behind a longstanding stolen Oscar myth.”

Missing in Action,” Chris Ujma, AIR, March 2018.

“As Hollywood celebrates it’s 90th Academy Awards, Olivia Rutigliano has her eye on another number: 79. That’s how many statuettes have been mysteriously stolen or gone missing since 1929 — and she’s devoted a career to tracking down Lost Oscars”

Olivia Rutigliano Discovers an Unconventional Ghost Story,” Lauren Dlugosz Rochford, The Millions, October 30, 2020

At CrimeReads, Olivia Rutigliano looks back at author Ellen Raskin’s career and life, and realizes there is a ghost story at the heart of her classic murder mystery, The Westing Game.”