Francesco Ventrella
Francesco Ventrella is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Sussex, where he is also affiliated with the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence. Francesco has written on the relationship between art writing, embodiment, gender and sexuality, and his research has been published in Art History, Studi Culturali, British Art Studies and European Journal of Women’s Studies. He has edited a special issue of Parallax on "Enthusiasm" (2011); co-edited with Meaghan Clarke a special issue of Visual Resources on the topic of "Women and the Culture of Connoisseurship" (2017), and with Giovanna Zapperi he has published the volume Feminism and Art in Postwar Italy: The Legacy of Carla Lonzi (Bloomsbury, 2020). In 2018 Francesco also curated the exhibition "What Section 28 Did to Me" at the University of Sussex. A former editor of Parallax (2008-2011), he is now a member of the editorial board of the journal Art History.
