Eduardo De Maio
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Eduardo De Maio is a Final Year PhD candidate in the History of Art Department at the University of York. His research investigates the phenomenon of cultural interchange between Britain and Italian art at the turn of the twentieth century, focussing on cultural transmission, reception and interpretations, as well as on cultural relationships through patronage, collecting, exhibition history, and art criticism. His further research interests include social art history, curatorial and museum studies, cultural internationalism, Futurism, ekphrasis, history of art-magazines, history of patronage and collections, post-colonial studies, and social, environmental and political commitment in artistic practice and criticism.
Eduardo holds a BA in Cultural Studies (University of Florence, 2017) and an MA in History of Art (University of York, 2018). Eduardo was a research fellow at the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) in New York in 2022, and an Associate Editor of the University of York’s departmental journal Aspectus: Journal of Visual Culture (2019-2021). Eduardo is a Graduate Teaching assistant at the University of York, and has held positions in museums and cultural centres in the UK (Henry Moore Institute, 2019; York Museum Trust, 2020). He is also involved in curatorial, academic and cultural projects ("Volterra Italian Capital of Culture 2021", 2020; "We Are the Flood" - Art and Anthropocene, Trento, 2022-on course; "The Rossettis: In Relation", conference, Tate, 2023) and contributes to art magazines and journals."
