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Giancarlo Felice serves as a Research Fellow at the Department of Humanities (DISUM) of the University of Catania and holds a lecturer position in Romance culture and visuality (L-FIL-LET/09) since 2024, bridging visual studies with classical heritage research.
His educational trajectory includes a degree in History of Art and Cultural Heritage with thesis on Giosetta Fioroni and artists' books, followed by a PhD in Sciences for Heritage and Cultural Production from Catania. Doctoral research examined Duilio Cambellotti's scenography for Syracuse's Greek Theatre using archives from Inda Foundation, Central Institute for Graphics (Rome), and Mart Museum's Cambellotti Fund.
Current research centers on Visual Culture and History of Photography through two major initiatives: directing the SSDL-FIL-LET/09 project For an Atlas of Spanish Epic-Chivalric Poem Images (16th-18th C.) under PRIN 2022 funding, analyzing Italian/Spanish woodcut corpora via Warburgian methodologies; and contributing to Mem.Art – Memorie d'artista exploring performing/visual culture intersections. Interdisciplinary frameworks integrate anthropology and ancient iconography.
As editorial staff member of Arabeschi: International Journal of Literary and Visual Studies since 2017, he advances contemporary art history discourse. Scholarship includes Vittore Branca Center affiliation and Giorgio Cini Foundation studies in Theatre/Melodrama (2021), alongside active participation in Italy's Society for Photography Study (SISF).
Research collaborations span CIPEC (Corpus Iconográfico de los Poemas Épicos-Caballerescos) and international consortia, with national grant support through PRIN 2022. No formal advisees are documented, though team-based projects emphasize collective knowledge production in visual heritage studies.
