University of Bologna

Federica Muzzarelli

Principal Investigator - Full Professor, L-ART/03, University of Bologna

Federica Muzzarelli is Full Professor of Photography and Visual Culture at the Department of Arts, University of Bologna. She is Coordinator of the Photography Art Feminism Research Centre and Editor-in-Chief of the scientific series “Cultures, Fashion and Society” (Pearson). She is Principal Investigator for a 2022-25 PRIN Project on Feminist Italian Photography. Among her recent books and papers: Femmes Photographes. Emancipation et performance 1850-1940 (Hazan, Paris 2009); Moderne icone di moda. La costruzione fotografica del mito (Einaudi 2013); From Family Album to Snapshot Style. Notes on the Aesthetics of the Snapshot Style between Art and Fashion (Pearson 2015); 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); Feminism and Italian Photography: Notes on the Inheritance of New Generations from the 1970s (JACCP 2022).

Stefano Marino

Associate Professor, M-FIL/04, University of Bologna

His main research fields are: Hermeneutics; Critical theory; Neopragmatism; Philosophy of music; Aesthetics of Fashion; Feminism.
He has authored, among others, the books Verità e non-verità del popular (2021), La filosofia dei Radiohead (2021), Le verità del non-vero (2019), Aesthetics, Metaphysics, Language (2015), La filosofia di Frank Zappa (2014), Gadamer and the Limits of the Modern Techno-Scientific Civilization (2011).
He has translated, from German or English into Italian, books by H.-G. Gadamer, Th. W. Adorno and C. Korsmeyer.
He has co-edited, among others, the volumes Pearl Jam and Philosophy (2021), The “Aging” of Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory (2021), Kant’s “Critique of Aesthetic Judgment” in the 20th Century (2020), Adorno and Popular Music (2019), Philosophical Perspectives on Fashion (2017).

Massimo Giovanardi

Associate Professor, SECS-P/08, University of Bologna

Massimo Giovanardi is an Associate Professor at the Department for Life Quality Studies and a board member of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Tourism at the University of Bologna (Rimini Campus). Since the beginning of his academic career at Stockholm Business School and University of Leicester School of Business, he has developed a thorough expertise in the area of ‘place branding’, which is an umbrella term for research in place marketing, destination image and place-of-origin effect. 

Gustavo Marfia

Associate Professor, INF/01, University of Bologna

Gustavo Marfia received a Laurea degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2003 and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2009.

Between 2002 and 2004 he was with Siemens Mobile Communications Research Labs in Milan, working on advanced services for next generation mobile network customers. While working at Siemens he filed one patent. His work has been part of demonstrations held for the Italian Secretaries of Telecommunications and Innovation, among others.

Starting in 2009, until October 2012, he has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy and since 2011 he is a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests, while in Bologna, have expanded to include computer gaming and the use of advanced interfaces for the supporto of human-computer interactions. His work has been object of public demonstrations at the Shanghai World Expo in 2010 and at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2011.

In November 2012 he joined the Department for Life Quality Studies of the University of Bologna, where in 2019 he starts the VARLAB, lab devoted to the design, construction and assessment of distributed and immersive environments.

He directs MIXR - Master in Innovation in eXtended Reality, a novel joint University of Bologna - EON Reality academic initiative.

He is an Associate Professor since February 2019. 

Giorgia Ravaioli

PhD Student, L-ART/03, University of Bologna

Giorgia Ravaioli is a PhD student in Photography and Visual Culture at the University of Bologna (XXXVI cycle). Her research interests focus on photographic sedimentations, related aesthetic practices, and the photographic archive as a theoretical object, specifically in the post-digital era. Since 2020, she has been a Junior Fellow of the International Research Centre CFC – Culture Fashion Communication and a Fellow of the Research Centre FAF – Photography Art Feminism. Since 2022, she has been a member of the Global Art Archive (GAA) Grupo de Investigación of the University of Barcelona. 

Lorenzo Stacchio

PhD Student, INF/01, University of Bologna

Lorenzo Stacchio is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science from the University of Bologna with a scholarship funded by AEFFE s.p.a focused on the application of Deep Learning and Extended Reality paradigms for the fashion industry.

His research interests include the application of Computer Vision and Mixed Reality paradigms linked to cultural heritage.

Benedetta Susi

Research Fellow, L-ART/03, University of Bologna

Benedetta Susi is a young researcher who started her education at the University of Roma Tre with a bachelor's degree in Contemporary Art History on Tomaso Binga and the evolution of his writing. She continued her studies with a master's degree in Visual Arts at the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, with a thesis on the "ghetto exhibitions" of the 1970s and the curatorial activities of Romana Loda, Mirella Bentivoglio, and the Cooperativa di Via del Beato Angelico, supervisor Prof. Roberto Pinto and correlated by Prof. Federica Muzzarelli. She is currently a research fellow for the national research project “IFP (Italian Feminist Photography)” (winner of PRIN 2020). Her interests range from photography to the valorization of cultural heritage, from digitization practices to cataloging, with a particular interest in gender studies and photography as a feminist practice, and 1970s art.

Giulia Brandinelli

Research Fellow, L-ART/03, University of Bologna

Giulia Brandinelli is a Research Fellow at the Department of Arts of Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, at the same University she is Research Fellow at the Research Centre “Fotografia Arte Femminismo. Storia, teorie e pratiche di resistenza nella cultura visive contemporanea”. She is also Curator of the Maria Lai Archive with which she has been collaborating regurarly since 2019. In 2022 she obtained her PhD from the Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" with the thesis “Cesare Vivaldi pastore di parole (1925 – 1969”. Her study interests are particularly focused on the Roman artistic environment between the 1940s and 1960s, the artist Maria Lai and the practices of female and feminist photography in Italy between the 19th and 20th centuries.

Chiara Tessariol

PhD Student, L-ART/03, University of Bologna

PhD student in Arts, History, Society (XXXIX cycle) at the Department of Arts, where she conducts her research on feminist photographic production and collaborates on the PRIN 2022 - 2025 Italian Feminist Photography (Principal investigator: Prof. Federica Muzzarelli).
She studied Communication at the University of Padua and continued at the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, graduating in Fashion Studies with a thesis entitled "Fashion, feminism and the social construction of gender: How clothes build and define our identity".

Vincenzo Armandi

Research Fellow, INF/01, University of Bologna

Vincenzo Armandi obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science in the academic year 2020 and a Master's Degree in the academic year 2023 at the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna. He is currently a research fellow at the Department of Arts - DAR at the University of Bologna. His main research topic is focused on the design and implementation of eXtended Reality solutions to support visual communication.