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Raffaella Perna is Assistant Professor of 19th-21st Art History at Sapienza University of Rome. She has authored the following books: Piero Manzoni e Roma (2017), Pablo Echaurren, il movimento del ‘77 e gli Indiani metropolitani (2016), Arte, fotografia e femminismo in Italia negli anni Settanta (2013), In forma di fotografia. Ricerca artistiche in Italia dal 1960 al 1970 (2009). She has curated and co-curated the exhibitions: The Unexpected Subject 1978 Art and Feminism in Italy (Frigoriferi Milanesi, Milan 2019), L’altro sguardo. Fotografe italiane 1965-2018 (Triennale, Milan and Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome), and Ketty La Rocca 80. Gesture, Speech and Word, 17th Biennale Donna, Contemporary Art Pavilion, Ferrara (2018). From 2018 she is the Director of the editorial series “Quaderni della Fondazione Echaurren Salaris” (Postmedia Books, Milan), and since 2022 she has been in charge of the “Interuniversity Network” project on behalf of the Quadriennale Foundation of Rome. 

Claudio Zambianchi (born in Rome, 1958) graduated in Humanities (with a major in art history) in 1984 to in Lettere (storia dell’arte) at the “Sapienza” University of Rome. He took his Master’s of Arts at the Southern Methodist University of Dallas, Texas (1989), and his doctorate in art history at the “Sapienza” University in 1992. His areas of interest are art and art criticism in Britain (late XIX and early XX century); American art of XIX and XX century; Italian art and art criticism after the Second World War; French art of the second half of the XIX century. He has written for exhibition catalogues, art history periodicals, newpaper and magazines. In 2000 he published a book on Claude Monet’s Water Lilies, and in 2007 a general survey on Monet’s work. In 2008 he edited (with Giuseppe Di Giacomo) and introduced a collection of major art criticism texts of the XX century. In 2011 he published a book about XX century art: from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. In 2012 he translated and edited the Italian edition of Clive Bell’s Art (1914). He taught at the Academies of Fine Art in Turin and Milan. Since 1998 he’s been associate professor of XIX and XX century art at the “Sapienza” University of Rome. He’s currently (since January 2018) full professor of XIX and XX century art at the “Sapienza” University of Rome . He was co-ordinator of didactic for the Facoltà di Scienze Umanistiche from its foundation to 2009 and deputy dean for one year (November 2005 to October 2006). He’s currently Erasmus coordinator for the Department of Art History and Performing Arts at the Sapienza University and deputy director of DIGILAB. He was a member of the Board of the Association of Art History University Professors (CUNSTA) for six years (2006- 2011). He sits in the Committee of the Doctorate in Art History at the Sapienza University. He’s the co-editor of the online journal «Piano B». He’s co-ordinator of the editing committee of the series of open access ebooks «Arti», published by the Casa Editrice Sapienza for the sections ff Art History and Performing Arts of the Department of History Anthropology Religions Visual and Performing Arts of the Sapienza University.

Elisa Genovesi is research fellow at Sapienza University of Rome, Department S.A.R.A.S. (History Anthropology Religions Art History Media and Performing Arts). She received a PhD in History of Art from the same university. The topic of her doctoral research was the didactic work of Toti Scialoja. Her research interests comprehend the historical-artistic context in Italy between the 19^th and 20^th centuries and from the post-war to the ‘80s. She is particularly interested in the history of art criticism and in the relationship of the Italian scene with France and the U.S.

Giulia Ricozzi graduated in 2018 in Studies in Art History from Sapienza University of Rome, with a dissertation on Lionello Venturi (Supervisor: Prof. Marco Ruffini). In 2020 she received a Master of Letters at the University of St Andrews, with research on the music video of Apeshit supervised by Prof. Marika Takanishi Knowles. She obtained her Master’s degree at Sapienza in 2022, with the thesis "Chiara Samugheo: fotografare l'Italia", under the guidance of Prof. Raffaella Perna and Prof. Ilaria Schiaffini. She collaborates with the Rome unit of PRIN 2020 Italian Feminist Photography, under the supervision of Prof. Perna. She completed the Specialization Course in Artistic Historical Heritage at Sapienza, with research focused on the definitive export of cultural heritage and the debate between private individuals and public institutions (Supervisor: Prof. Marica Mercalli). Her PhD project focuses on the work of Italian female photojournalists in the telling of non-Western realities between 1950 and 1990.