Giuliana Pieri
Crolla Amato Prize 2019 | Cultural Studies
Panel Judge
Giuliana Pieri is (Dott. Lett. Pavia; MA Kent; DPhil Oxon) is Professor of Italian and the Visual Arts at Royal Holloway University of London.
Giuliana has published widely on 19th and 20th century visual culture, cultural history and popular literature. Her research interests are comparative and interdisciplinary, especially the intersection of the verbal and the visual, and the role of Italian visual culture in the construction of Italian identity both in Italy and abroad.
Recent volumes include Chivalry, Academy and Cultural Dialogues: The Italian Contribution to European Modernity, with S. Jossa (Legenda, 2017); Visualizzare la guerra: l’iconografia del conflitto e l’Italia, with M.G. Di Monte and S. Storchi (Mimesis, 2016); and The Cult of the Duce. Mussolini and the Italians from 1914 to the Present, with S. Gundle and C. Duggan (Manchester, 2013).
In 2010 Giuliana co-curated the exhibition Against Mussolini. Art and the Fall of a Dictator (London, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art). She is senior editor of the journal Italian Studies (Cultural Studies), general series editor of European Crime Fictions and Studies in Visual Culture (University of Wales Press), and Principal Investigator of the AHRC funded research project Interdisciplinary Italy 1900-2020: Interart/Intermedia.
