Federica Muzzarelli

Since 2019 Federica Muzzarelli is Full Professor of Photography and Visual Culture at the University of Bologna for the Department of the Arts. She is Coordinator of the Photography Art Feminisms Research Centre, Co-Editor-in-Chief of the scientific Journal “Pianob. Arti e culture visive” and Co-editor-in-Chief of the scientific series "Fashion, Media and Culture: Perspectives on Global Lifestyle" (Bloomsbury). She coordinated a three-years Project funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research on Feminist Italian Photography. Her main research interests focus on the relationship between photography and feminism in contemporary art, a topic to which she has dedicated monographs, essays, and sceintific articles; conference presentations; lectures; and curated exhibitions (most recently at the Centro della Fotografia in Rome, the Italian Cultural Institute and the Fotogalerie in Vienna, and the Estorick Collection for Modern Italian Art in London). In September 2025, she coordinated the international conference “Photography and Feminist Aesthetics: Italian and Transnational Perspectives” (University of Bologna).