Teaching Activities
- A.Y. 2024-2025: Adjunct Professor for "History and Theory of Photography" L-ART/06 (6 CFU), Bachelor's Degree in DAMS, University of Turin (36 hours).
- A.Y. 2024-2025: Adjunct Professor for "History of Photography" (code ISSC02), Second-Level Academic Diploma in Graphic and Editorial Design, specializing in Communication and Design for Publishing, ISIA Urbino (32 hours).
- A.Y. 2024-2025: Instructor for the seminar "Photography in Focus: an introduction to histor(ies) and theor(ies)" within the Master's Degree in Fashion Studies (FAST) at the University of Bologna (10 hours).
- A.Y. 2024-2025: Teaching assistant for "Theories and Practices of Photography" in the Master's Degree in Visual Arts at the University of Bologna.
- A.Y. 2023-2024: Adjunct Professor for "History and Theory of Photography" L-ART/06 (6 CFU), Bachelor's Degree in DAMS, University of Turin (36 hours).
- A.Y. 2023-2024: Adjunct Professor for "History of Photography" (code ISSC02), Second-Level Academic Diploma in Graphic and Editorial Design, ISIA Urbino (32 hours).
- A.Y. 2023-2024: Co-curator (with Lorenzo Aimo, Giulia Brandinelli, Chiara Pompa, Benedetta Susi, and Chiara Tessariol) of the 12-hour workshop "Feminist Narratives through Albums, Diaries, and Photobooks" as part of "Theories and Practices of Photography" within the Master's Degree in Visual Arts at the University of Bologna.
- A.Y. 2023-2024: Instructor for a 10-hour module in the Crash Courses series, "An Introduction to Photography: Histories, Theories, Practices," in the Master's Degree in Fashion Studies (FAST) at the University of Bologna.
- A.Y. 2022-2023: Instructor for a 10-hour module in the Crash Courses series, "An Introduction to Photography: Histories, Theories, Practices," in the Master's Degree in Fashion Studies (FAST) at the University of Bologna.
- A.Y. 2022-2023: Tutor for the Fashion Studies (FAST) program at the University of Bologna, Rimini campus.
- A.Y. 2021-2022: Instructor for a 10-hour module in the Crash Courses series, "An Introduction to Photography: Histories, Theories, Practices," in the Master's Degree in Fashion Studies (FAST) at the University of Bologna.
- A.Y. 2020-2021: Teaching assistant for "Displaying Photography in Art and in Cultural & Creative Industries" within the Master's Degree in Arts, Museology, and Curatorship (AMaC) at the University of Bologna.
- A.Y. 2020-2021: Instructor for a 10-hour module in the Crash Courses series, "An Introduction to Photography: Histories, Theories, Practices," in the Master's Degree in Fashion Studies (FAST) at the University of Bologna.
- A.Y. 2018-2019: Tutor for the "Out Of The Archives" Workshop within the Master's Degree in Design and Technology for Fashion Communication (DTFC) at the University of Bologna, in collaboration with the Fashion Research Italy Foundation.
Education
- November 2020 – July 2024: PhD in History of Photography (Contemporary Art History - L-ART/03), University of Bologna, with a dissertation awarded the highest distinction (summa cum laude) on 08/07/2024.
- Visiting PhD Student at the University of Barcelona (May-June 2022) and at the University of Copenhagen (May-June 2023).
- November 2019 – July 2020: Postgraduate course "Generazione Cultura" at LUISS Business School, Rome, focusing on the valorization of artistic and cultural heritage.
- November 2016 – November 2018: Master's Degree in Visual Arts, University of Bologna (110/110 cum laude).
- Erasmus+ exchange at the University of Copenhagen (2017-2018).
- November 2013 – November 2016: Bachelor's Degree in Literature, University of Bologna (110/110 cum laude).
- Erasmus+ exchange at the University of Edinburgh (2015-2016).
- September 2012 – July 2013: Foundation Year Diploma in Art, Media, and Design (BA Hons) from London Metropolitan University, UK (Distinction).
Internships
- January 2020 – July 2020: Postgraduate internship at the Photographic Cabinet of the Uffizi Galleries, Florence. Responsibilities included managing photographic collections, digitization, cataloging, research, and assisting with photographic campaigns.
- March 2018 – July 2018: Internship at the Educational Department of the Museum of Modern Art of Bologna (MAMbo). Duties included preparing educational materials and conducting guided tours.
Research Projects Participation
- 2020 – Present: Member of the research team for the PRIN 2020 project, Italian Feminist Photography: Identity Politics and Gender Strategies.
Research Affiliations
- May 2023 – July 2023: Visiting Researcher at the Uncertain Archives and INTERSECT hubs, University of Copenhagen.
- May 2022 – Present: Researcher at Global Art Archive (GAA), University of Barcelona.
- January 2021 – Present: Fellow at the research center "Photography, Art, Feminism," University of Bologna.
- November 2020 – Present: Junior Fellow at the "CFC - Culture Fashion Communication International Research Centre," University of Bologna.
Editorial Roles
- September 2023 – Present: Editorial board member of the scientific journal piano b. Arti e culture visive, University of Bologna.
Conferences
Delivered papers at several international conferences, including:
- "Queer (Re)visions in Early 20th-Century Italian Photography"(con Giulia Brandinelli), at the international conference Queer Pasts: What’s Queer in Queer History?, University of Copenhagen, Roskilde University (fothcoming, 21-23 may 2025)
- "Presencing the absent city: temporal and heritage constructs in Paolo Monti’s photographic survey of Bologna", at the Association for Art History 2025 Annual Conference, University of York (fothcoming, 9-11 april 2024)
- "Epistemic Disobedience in the “Shadow Archive”: (Neo)Physiognomic Concerns in Italian Activist Art", at the international conference Reframing the Archive – International Conference on Photography and Visual Culture "Archival Practices in Contemporary Visual Arts: A Model and a Source", Archivio Platform - International Association for Photography and Visual Culture (IAPVC), 27-27 September 2024
- "Album privati e archivi pubblici: la riscoperta di una storia queer nell’Emilia-Romagna del primo Novecento", (with Giulia Brandinelli, Chiara Pompa e Benedetta Susi) at IX Congresso internazionale della Società Italiana delle Storiche "Genere e Storia oltre i confini", Università di Palermo, 20 -22 June 2024
- "Uncovering the legacy of Italian feminist photography: the untold (hi)story of Guido da San Giuliano and Sfinge", (with Giulia Brandinelli, Chiara Pompa e Benedetta Susi) at the international conference Fast Forward Conference 5 “Hidden (Hi)stories: New Perspectives of Women’s Photographies” , MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography (Greece), 17-19 May 2024
- "Hysterical documents: deception and pragmatics of trust in the age of post-photography", at the international conference Artwork and Document/Después del archivo: Obra y Documento, Università di Barcellona (Spain), 23-26 October 2023
- "Photographic stratigraphy in contested terrains: deep mapping Sammy Baloji’s Mémoire", at LYNX Summer School Dissonances. Re-interpreting and re-assessing difficult heritage, IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, 13-15 July 2023
- "Limits of Documentary Realism and Post-Photographic Narratives in the Anthropocene", (with Daniel Borselli) at the international conference Expanded Visualities. Photography and Emerging Technologies, Sixth International Conference of Photography and Theory, International Association of Photography and Theory (IAPT), CYENS - Centre of Excellence, Nicosia (Ciprus), 17-19 November 2022
- “An archive at the nexus of photographic culture and city culture in transformation” at the international workshop The Ways of Archiving. Practices, Conditions and Discourses around the Study of Arts and Culture, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid / Université Grenoble Alpes (Spagna-Francia), 12 - 13 e 15 - 16 September 2022
- “La fotografia tra machine vision e keywording: le origini pre-digitali della nuova archival art” at the international conference Paradigmi del fotografico. Teorie e poetiche in dialogo con le arti visive, Università di Bologna, 24-25 September 2021
- “Photography, countervisuality and the claim to identity. The case of The Island of the Colourblind by Sanne de Wilde” at the international conference Savoirs et pouvoirs à l’épreuve de l’épistémocritique, Université de Lyon (France), 12 April 2021
- “Submerged narratives from colonial times: an archive to reframe history" at the international workshop Imagined Pasts: Colonialism, Photography, and Archives, Università di Lisbona (Portugal), 5 November 2019
- “Un archivio per riscrivere la storia: The Atlas Group di Walid Raad” at the international conference La vertigine dell’archivio. Arte, collezionismo, poetiche, Università di Bologna, 7 June 2019
- “Ghirri e Celati, narratori della Valle Padana”, at the workshop Luigi Ghirri: Table Ronde «jeunes chercheurs» Semaine italienne 2019, École Normale Supérieure Paris, Paris (France), 16 April 2019
