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R E S U M E
 

  EDUCATION
  School of History of Art, Film & Visual Media, Birkbeck College, University of London
- PhD in History of Art (expected date Spring 2009)
Thesis' title: Art, Technology and Politics at the Venice Biennale, 1966-2001
Supervisor: Dr. Charlie Gere
-MA in Digital Art History

Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia
- Laurea in Conservazione dei Beni Culturali (History of Art)
Thesis' title: Il Seno Denudato: da Simbolo ad Allegoria. Immagini del Femminile tra Rinascimento e Controriforma
Supervisors: Prof. Monica Centanni and Prof. Augusto Gentili

  MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL AND LEARNED SOCIETIES
  Member of the Association of Art Historians (AAH), 2008-present
Member of the Editorial Board of Computers and the History of Art (CHArt), 2005-present
Member of the Courtauld Association, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 2006-present

  WORK HISTORY
  School of History of Art, Film & Visual Media, Birkbeck College, University of London
- Lecturer for the BA History of Art (2007-present)
Series of seminars on the critical approaches of the history of art based on Barthes’ Rethoric of the Image and Foucault’s This Is Not a Pipe
- Web Master (2008-present)
Responsible for updating the School’s website, working on WebCT. Planning improvements of the current website and migration to the new website using Blackboard.

Computers and the History of Art - CHArt (www.chart.ac.uk)
- Conference Organiser – CHArt 2008: Seeing, November 2008, venue t.b.c., London
- Conference Organiser – CHArt 2007: Digital Archive Fever, 8-9 November 2007, Birkbeck College, London

Courtauld Institute of Art, London
- Web Master and Database Manager for Public Monuments & Sculpture Association (www.pmsa.org.uk)

  PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
  Birkbeck College, University of London, 2005
- Fundamentals of Teaching Programme. Birkbeck’s specially designed course for teaching to postgraduates

Tate Modern, London, 2004
- Course and workshop on the role of the gallery in the digital age and curating new media

Peggy Guggenheim Museum, Venice, Italy, 1999
- Course and workshop in contemporary art and museology

  INTERESTS and ACTIVITIES
  - Argentine Tango
- Friend of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London (2006-)
- Member of the Cambridge Drawing Society [established in 1882], (2005-)

 

 
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