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Valeria Federici

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Lecturer, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Lecturer, Italian

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Research Expertise

Art and history
Digital Humanities
Italian
Media Studies

Dr. Valeria Federici received her Ph.D. in Italian Studies and an MA in History of Art and Architecture from Brown University in 2019.
Before coming to the University of Maryland Dr. Federici was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. 

As a multidisciplinary scholar, her research interests revolve around themes of art, information technology, sovereignty, relational space, social movements, cultural identity, and the digital humanities. 

In the field of digital humanities, Dr. Federici worked as a research associate at Brown University on the digital project “The Garibaldi and the Risorgimento.” Also, at Brown University, in collaboration with the Center for Digital Scholarship, she completed a digital interface (“The Garibaldi Resource Explorer”) that investigates the relationships between the Garibaldi Panorama and the visual and textual materials collected in the Harvard Risorgimento Preservation Collection.
 
Dr. Federici’s past and current research has resulted in academic publications on several topics, among which: teaching with technology; contemporary art theories and practices; the visual representation of women in Italian cinema and television in the 1950s, and the history of modern Italy.

Dr. Federici is one the guest editors of the special issue of the journal The Italianist titled “Digital Interdisciplinarity: from text to context, from data to image” (2022:42, Vol. 3). The issue critically embraces interdisciplinarity and reflects on the paradigm shift concerning quantitative analysis in the Humanities. Her contribution to the special issue is titled "The age of datum or data as a methodological paradigm."

Her scholarship and research have been supported by CIMA - Center for Italian Modern Art, (NY), and the Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University (RI), among others. In Summer 2023, Dr. Federici received a travel research grant from the Association for Art History (UK) and conducted research in Italy, Slovenia, and the Netherlands for her ongoing project on information technology, art, and politics.

Dr. Federici is the Coordinator of the Italian Language Program and the Undergraduate Advisor.

Professional Affiliations

AAH – Association for Art History.
AAIS – American Association for Italian Studies.
AIUCD – Association for the Digital Humanities and Digital Culture.
ASAP – Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present.
SCAH – Society of Contemporary Art Historians.

Selected publications

Valeria Federici (2022) The Age of Datum or Data as a Methodological Paradigm, The Italianist, 42:3, 323-343, DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2023.2223877

Valeria Federici et al (2022) The “Tran(s)missions“ Summer School at the Digital Humanities Lab in Roma Tre: how multimedia shapes and reforms interdisciplinary research in the field of Italian and visual culture, Umanistica Digitale, (11), pp. 177–197, DOI: https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2532-8816/13705

Valeria Federici, Massimo Riva (2017) The Garibaldi Panorama & the Risorgimento Archive at Brown University, NEMLA ITALIAN STUDIES: The Italian Digital Classroom - Italian Culture and Literature through digital tools and social media, XXXIX, 84-99.

Valeria Federici (2017) Television and cinema: Contradictory role models for women in 1950s Italy?” in Representations of Female Identity in Italy: From Neoclassism to the 21st Century, Edited by Silvia Byer and Fabiana Cecchini, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 149-169.