Federica Muzzarelli

Federica Muzzarelli is Full Professor of History of Photography at the Department of Arts, University of Bologna. She is Coordinator of the Photography Art Feminism Research Centre. She is Principal Investigator for a 2022-25 PRIN Project on Feminist Italian Photography. She is Co-editor of the series: FASHION, MEDIA AND CULTURE: PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL LIFESTYLES (Bloomsbury). Among her recent books and papers: Femmes Photographes. Emancipation et performance 1850-1940 (Hazan, Paris 2009); Lee Miller and Man Ray. Photography, Fashion, Art (Atlante 2016); Women Photographers: Annemarie Schwarzenbach, New Dandy and Lesbian Chic Icon ("Visual Resources" 2018); I nudi maschili di Elio Luxardo. Fotografia e virilità nell’estetica fascista (Rosenberg & Sellier 2020); Fotografia, estetica femminista e pratiche identitarie (Postmedia books 2021); Photography and Modern Icons: The Visual Planning of Myth, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle 2023.Feminism and Italian Photography: Notes on the Inheritance of New Generations from the 1970s (JACCP 2022); Fotografia e Femminismo tra 800 e 900 (Pearson 2024).