Research

I have a background in Art History (La Sapienza, Rome) and Comparative Literatures (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris), and I am currently undertaking a CHASE-funded PhD in Art History at the University of Sussex. My research focuses on art writing and feminist practices, with particular attention to the late work of Carla Lonzi (1931–1982). I am interested in how consciousness-raising transformed the assumptions, methods, and forms of art criticism, opening it to dialogue, lived experience, and processes of self-articulation. More broadly, my work explores what happens when personal experience enters critical writing, challenging its claims to neutrality and authority. Micro, self-, queer, and feminist publishing form a key part of my research, both as a historical field and as a contemporary practice. Across my research, I investigate how texts circulate, create relations, and challenge dominant structures of knowledge production.