Viviana Costagliola, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Main Focus

  • Theory and methods for the study of Southern Italian art
  • Art of the Franciscan Order in Italy
  • History of Photography
  •  Visual culture studies

Research Project

“Viaggio al Sud”. The Representation of Southern Italy in Photographic Reportages and in Tourism Promotion Photography after World War II

Publications (Selection)

  • "L’impatto della rete ferroviaria italiana sulle guide di viaggio e la produzione fotografica del Paese dopo l’Unità", in La rotaia e il treno. Due secoli di sviluppo, a cura di Stefano Maggi, Siena 2023, pp. 299318.
  • “La narrazione del paesaggio del Mezzogiorno nella produzione fotografica ed editoriale del Touring Club Italiano (1959­–1968): una prima analisi”, in Le vie del Sud. Transiti e confini nel cinema meridiano, a cura di Augusto Sainati e Martina Federico, Pisa 2023, pp. 141–152.
  • “L’album fotografico di Osvaldo Ballerio del Touring Club Italiano (1889)”, Confronto. Studi e ricerche di storia dell’arte europea, 6 (2023), pp. 167–176.

Curriculum Vitae

Viviana Costagliola graduated in art history from the University of Naples "Federico II," where she also received her PhD in May 2020. From 2020 to 2022, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Bibliotheca Hertziana (T. Michalsky Department), where she worked on the photographic documentation of the art-historical heritage of southern Italy (18611914). In 2022, she was a fellow of the research group "EXC 2020 – Temporal Communities" at the Freie Universität Berlin, with a project on the relationship between photographic production in the field of tourism and foreign travel guides of southern Italy (18691927).
Her research topics concern the visual representation and construction of the image of southern Italy, with particular attention to the photographic production of the Italian Touring Club. Some of her research has been presented at the Kunsthistorisches Institut (Florence), CIMA - Center for Italian Modern Art (New York), Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, and the Italienzentrum of the Freie Universität (Berlin).

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