Role
Professor of History of Photography at the ISIA in Urbino. Head of the Media Section of the Communication Study Center and Archive (CSAC) at the University of Parma.
Bio
After graduating from the University of Parma with a specialization in Modern Art History, she earned a PhD in Art History. Since 1993, she has been curating, preserving, and protecting the archival heritage at the Communication Study Center and Archives of the University of Parma, where she is head of the Media Section. Since 2000, she has taught at various universities, and since 2010, she has taught History of Photography at the ISIA in Urbino.
Her research intertwines the history of photography, the history of visual communication, and gender studies. She studies the construction of gender imagery in the media, the relationship between photography and feminism, and women's photographic and personal archives. She has also explored the relationships between photography, architecture, landscape, and design.
In the field of public history, she works on the relationship between history and photography, on visual sources, and on the presence of women's history and gender studies in historical dissemination. In 2024, she was reappointed to a second term on the Board of Directors of the Italian Association of Public History ; in 2025, she coordinated the activities of the association's Gender group.