Italian Studies

Valeria Federici received her PhD in May 2019. Her interdisciplinary doctoral dissertation project, directed by Massimo Riva, entitled “Network culture in Italy in the 1990s and the making of a place for art and activism,” explores the use of information technologies by artists and art collectives operating out of social centers, self-regulated sites of sociality located in and around Italian urban areas. In 2016, with the collaboration of the Center for Digital Scholarship at Brown University, she completed a digital interface (The Garibaldi Explorer) that investigates the relationships between the Garibaldi Panorama and the visual and textual materials collected in the Harvard Risorgimento Preservation Collection. She rhas published a chapter titled “Television and cinema: Contradictory role models for women in 1950s Italy?” as part of the volume Representations of Female Identity in Italy: From Neoclassicism to the 21st Century (Cambridge Scholars Publishing). Valeria is a postdoctoral research associate at CASVA (the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts) at the National Gallery of Washington.