C.V

Education

2019

Ph.D. (Art History), University of Melbourne. Research question: What can an examination of sculptural Arte Povera works’ performativity reveal about the notion of artistic ‘poverty’?

Primary Supervisor: Dr Anthony White

Secondary Supervisor: Prof Rachel Fensham

2018

Honours (Art History), University of Melbourne. Title: All and Nothing: Povera and Performance in the Durational Works of Giovanni Anselmo and Gilberto Zorio. Supervisor: Dr Anthony White

2017

Graduate Diploma of Arts (Art History), University of Melbourne

2012-2014

Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing), RMIT University

Professional Experience

2021

  • Subject Tutor, The World in 20 Artworks, Art History Faculty, University of Melbourne
  • Presenter and Chair, American Association for Italian Studies Conference, Panel: “Suonare il Piffero della Rivoluzione? Culture and Politics in Italy’s Long ’68”
  • Organising Committee, Memory Conference, Centre of Visual Art (CoVA)
  • Editor, ‘Archipelagic Encounters I’ special issue of Currents Journal, forthcoming
  • Organising Committee, Marxism Conference, Melbourne

2020

  • Podcast Host, GAPS [ ]: Encounters with Art, Episode One: Composing in Space, Centre of Visual Art (CoVA) Graduate Academy
  • Organising Committee, Archipelagic Encounters symposium, University of Melbourne, Australia and LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
  • Subject Tutor, The World in 20 Artworks, Art History Faculty, University of Melbourne
  • Presenter, American Association for Italian Studies Conference, Tucson, Arizona (Conference suspended due to COVID-19), Panel: “Visual Culture in Postwar Italy”

2019

  • Presenter, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, Panel: “Encounters, Environments and the Arts”

2018

  • Regular Contributor, RealTime Magazine

2017

  • Sub-Editor, .JPG Journal

Selected Awards, Prizes and Mentorships

2020

  • American Association for Italian Studies Doctoral Student Travel Award

2019

  • Australian Government Research Training Scholarship, University of Melbourne

2018

  • R.G Wilson Scholarship for Honours, University of Melbourne
  • The Dwight Final Assessment Prize, Fine Arts, University of Melbourne
  • SEVENTH Gallery Writers Program

2017

  • Next Wave Festival DanceWrite Mentorship
  • Dance Massive Experimental Writing Mentorship with Claudia La Rocco

Selected Writing

  • Prima Materia, Bundoora Homestead’, (Memo Review, July 6th 2019)
  • Lara Kramer’s Windigo’, (Melbourne Critique, May 17th 2019)
  • ‘The Tennis Piece’, (un Projects, April 24th 2019)
  • One Infinity: Visualising the Listening Experience’, (Difficult Fun, November 25th 2018)
  • PRECOG – Next Wave x Liquid Architecture’, (Difficult Fun, May 20th 2018)
  • ‘JOLT’s Musical Myth-Making’, (RealTime Magazine, 5th December 2017)
  • ‘Experimenta: Make Sense: Disorientation and Distance’, (RealTime Magazine, 11th November 2017)
  • ‘Supersense: Ecstasy Sought, Partly Met’, (RealTime Magazine, 30th August 2017)
  • ‘Sonya Lacey: By Sea’, (RealTime Critical Video, August 2017)
  • ‘Sacred and Other Resonances: Liquid Architecture’s Polyphonic Social’, (RealTime Magazine, 6 June 2017)
  • ‘Corridor (2009): A World Between Screens’, (RealTime Critical Video, May 2017)
  • ‘Imagination and Incarceration: Squidsolo’s RIMA’ (RealTime Magazine, Issue 134, 2016)