La Sapienza - University of Rome

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. 

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.