Giulia Schirripa
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Giulia is a WRoCAH funded PhD candidate under the supervision of Dr. Teresa Kittler and Dr. James Boaden, working on her thesis titled Suzanne Santoro, Simona Weller, Maria Lai and Mirella Bentivoglio: books and the legacy of Italian feminism in art.
Her research investigates artists’ writings and artists’ books produced by women involved in the feminist movement in Italy from the 1970s to the 1990s. The project explores how these works responded to the influential feminism of the art critic Carla Lonzi, specifically negotiating her belief that artistic and feminist practices were incompatible.
While most of Giulia’s previous work has been looking at Lonzi’s complex relationship with art and artists, her wider research interests include theories of viewership and reception, the relationship between artist and their audience, and feminist interventions to the art historical canon.
Giulia received a BA from the University of Houston and her MA from the University of York. Concurrently to her studies, Giulia held curatorial positions in museums in the US (The MET, the MFAH), the UK (The Barber Institute of Fine Arts), and Italy (The Peggy Guggenheim Collection).
