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
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. 299–318.
- “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
(1861–1914). 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 (1869–1927).
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).