Curriculum Vitae
- 01/11/2020 – Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Marie Skłodowska Curie Global Fellowship
Università Ca’ Foscari – Venice, Italy
Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies
Research project: The lure of the foreign stage: Italian art and artistry serving the French and European spectacle. Project acronym: SPECTACLE
Supervisor: Prof. Gerardo Tocchini
Partner University: New York University – New York City
Department of Art History
Partner Institute Supervisor: Prof. Meredith Martin
Secondment University: Sorbonne Université – Paris
Supervisor during secondment: Prof. Renaud Bret-Vitoz
- 05/03/2013 – 06/08/2018 – PhD The University of Sydney – Sydney, NSW
Doctor of Philosophy and Alumni member
Faculty of Art and Social Sciences, Department of Art History and Film Studies
Area of research: stage design, theatre history, artistic community networks and visual artists in Italy and France (1750-1830)
Thesis Title: An Italian Artist in Paris: The Career and Designs of Ignazio Degotti (1758-1824)
Supervisor: Prof. Mark Andrew Ledbury - 01/01/2008 – 12/07/2011 – Master Università Statale degli Studi di Milano – Milan, Italy
Master Degree in Art History & Criticism (specializing in 18th and 19th Century Art and Stage Design)
Thesis Title: Alessandro Sanquirico and the scenography in Milan between Napoleon and the Restoration
Graduated with honours (110 e lode)
Supervisor: Prof. Fernando Mazzocca - 06/06/2008 – 11/09/2008 – Certificate The New School – New York, USA
Certificate of English as a Second Language. - 01/09/2005 – 30/06/2006 – Erasmus Study Programme Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca – Salamanca, Spain
Department of Communication European ERASMUS Scholarship - 02/08/2004 – 28/06/2007 – Bachelor Libera Universita di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM – Milan, Italy
Undergraduate Degree in Communication Science and Technology
Thesis Title: The Avant-Garde Fashion of Georg Simmel (110/110)
Supervisor: Prof. Maria Tilde Bettetini
- 01/11/20-01/11/21 – Marie Skłodowska Curie Global Fellowship (call: Horizon 2020 – MSCA IF 2019)
Host Institution: Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice
Three years’ postgraduate individual fellowship - 20/09/2018 – 20/12/2018 – Fondazione Giorgio Cini Onlus, Olivo and Vilma Andreazza International Scholarship, Venice, Italy
Three months’ salary and residency in the Vittore Branca Centre for Studies on Italian Culture - 01/02/2013 – 31/08/2017 – The University of Sydney International Scholarship, Sydney, Australia
Full coverage of tuition fees and salary
01/07/2014 – 30/10/2014 – The University of Sydney Cité Internationale des Arts Scholarship Sydney, Australia
Three months’ residence in Paris in the Power Institute Studio Residency at the Cité des Arts
- October 2023 – Taranto, Festival Giovanni Paisiello. Participation in the seminar ‘Le città dei Pasticci’. Paper: I “fastosi” pasticci del Théâtre Feydau: storie di scene e scenografi da Napoli a Parigi.
- April 2023 – ERC French Nineteenth-Century Network (zoom event). Session ‘Power and Spectacle in France, 1800-1850’. Paper: Le fantastique pourra être mis en scène et jamais faire des miracles. Ignazio Degotti (1758-1824) and the Staging of the Napoleonic Power at the Paris Opéra.
- November 2022 – Nice, Université Nice-Côte d’Azur. Two guest lectures for undergraduates of the course Histoire du théâtre et des textes dramatiques and Masters students of the course Esthétique scénique et pratiques des arts de la scene, taught by Prof. Emanuele De Luca.
- October 2022 – New York, NYU, Department of Art History, Undergraduate Course of Modern Art History taught by Prof. Meredith Martin. Guest lecture: Art, Theater, and Spectacle in the 19th Century
- October 2022 – Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, NYU – Full Organization of the Workshop Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions
- May 2022 – Versailles, CMBV (Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles) ThéPARis – Séminaire de Recherche. Paper: Nature en scène : décor de théâtre et jardins au XVIIIe siècle.
- April 2021 – New York, NYU, The Institute of Fine Arts – Course of Master ‘Visual and Performing Arts in France, 1660 – 1815’ taught by Prof. Meredith Martin (zoom event). Paper: Italian decorators in France and the role of Ignazio Degotti.
- March 2021 – Paris, Université Sorbonne, CELLF (Centre d’étude de la langue et des littératures françaises) – Series of seminar ‘Histoire et esthétique du théâtre au XVIIIe siècle’ taught by Prof. Renaud Bret-Vitoz (zoom event).Paper: Scénographies du XVIIIe siècle : l’impact de l’école italienne en France entre perspective et nature
- July 2023 ISECS (International Society Eighteenth Century Studies), Rome. Chair and session co-organizer of the panel ‘Visualizing Antiquity: The Use of Ancient Models in Dress, Dance, and Scenography’. Speaker in the session ‘Contingencies, conversations, and treasure hunts: artistic, literary and magical encounters in Italy’. Paper: Artistic Networks and Roman Encounters: Ignazio Degotti and Jacques-Louis David in Rome in 1784′
- June 2023 Full organization of the international conference ‘Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? Ephemerality and Materiality in France in the Long 18th-Century: Arts, Theatre, and Spectacle’. Venice, Aula Marino Berengo, Università Ca’ Foscari.
- March 2023 ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies), St. Louis at the Arch. Paper: The Spectacle of Nature: Theatre Sets and Gardens in 18th Century Paris.
- July 2022 International Conference ‘Musical and Theatrical Migrations. Performance practice in 17th and 18th– century Europe’. – Palácio Nacional de Queluz, Portugal. Paper: The Lure of the Foreign Stage: Italian Art and Artistry Serving the French and European Spectacle.
- June 2022 ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies) – zoom event part of the Annual Meeting. Chair and session proposer: European Spectacle Behind the Curtain: Décor, Machines, and Special Effects.
- February 2022 Louisiana State University –Virtual Theatres, International Study Day. Presentation of the research project SPECTACLE.
- June 2021 Sorbonne Université/PRITEPS/Initiative Théâtre – Programme de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur le Théâtre et les Pratiques Scéniques, Journée des doctorants (zoom event). Paper: L’attrait de la scène étrangère: l’art et le talent artistique au service du spectacle français européen à la fin du XVIIIe siècle
May 2021 Annual meeting SISSD (Società Italiana Studi Secolo Decimonono) Norma e Contestazione nel XVIII secolo (zoom event). Paper: Norme post-rivoluzionarie : educare il popolo a teatro L’esempio parigino de «La fête des Vieillards» e la promozione dei nuovi valori coniugali. - June 2019 International Conference ‘Eighteen Century Theatre Capitals: from Lisbon to St. Petersburg’ –Divino Sospiro, centro de estudios musicais setecentistas de Portugal – Palácio Nacional de Queluz, Portugal. Paper: Gli italiani di Parigi: artisti, pirotecnici e cavallerizzi al servizio delle scene teatrali di fine Settecento.
- May 2019 Annual meeting SISSD (Società Italiana Studi Secolo Decimonono) ‘L’invenzione nel passato nel XVIII secolo’ – Rimini, Italia. Paper: Orientalismi, esotismi e classicismi: il senso del passato nelle scenografie teatrali di fine ‘700.
- 2023 Cazzato E. “Performing for Napoleon: Production Quarrels at the Paris Opera”. In Dance Research, 41.2 (2023): 275-296, DOI: 10.3366/drs.2023.0407 (in press)
- 2023 Cazzato E. “«Le plus grand théâtre de la République, la première réputation dans l’Europe». Ignazio Degotti (1758-1824) Behind the Stage of the Paris Opéra”. In Studi Francesi, 2022 (peer-reviewed article accepted)
- 2022 Cazzato E., “Un artista italiano in Francia: il circo di Antonio Franconi a Parigi”. In: Dalle piazze alle corti. Storie di giochi e spettacoli tra ‘700 e ‘800, eds. Silvia Ghisotti, Andrea Merlotti, Genova, SAGEP, pp. 123-129.
- 2022 Cazzato E., “Gli italiani di Parigi: artisti, pirotecnici e cavallerizzi al servizio delle scene teatrali di fine Settecento”. In: Cadernos de Queluz, vol. 5, eds. Iskrena Yordanova, José Camȏes, Verlag, Hollitzer, 2021, pp. 283-306.
- 2021 Cazzato E., “Chronicles of two Piedmontese in Paris: the stage designer Ignazio Degotti (1758-1824) and the composer Gian Battista Viotti (1755-1824)”. In: Cadernos de Queluz, vol. 4, eds. Iskrena Yordanova, Cristina Fernandes,Verlag, Hollitzer, 2021, pp. 655-704
- 2020 Cazzato E., “Ignazio Degotti Staging Luigi Cherubini: Making Visual Culture at the Théâtre Feydeau (1791-1797)”. In: Luigi Cherubini: il teatro musicale, eds. Maria Teresa Arfini, Francesca Menchelli-Buttini, Emilia Pantini, Würzburg, Studio Verlag im Königshausen & Neumann, pp. 225-242, 2020.
- 2021-2022 Backstage assistant and costumes supervisor for the 18th century ballet performance Reimagining Le Ballet des Porcelaines.
Creator and Producer: Prof. Meredith Martin
Creator and choreographer: Phil Chan
Performance Locations: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), The University of Chicago, The University of Princeton, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte (Naples), Palazzo Grassi (Venice), MIT (Boston).
- 20/05/2015 – 30/09/2016 Maternity leave (16 months). Place of residence during the break: Italy
- Languages: Italian (mother tongue) English (bilingual, ESL certificate from The New School of New York 2008, IELTS Academic Certificate, Sydney 2012), Spanish (advanced, DELE High Intermediate Certificate), French (fluent, DELF B1/B2 Certificate)
- Memberships: Società Italiana Studi Secolo Decimonono (SISSD), Società Italiana per la Storia dell’ Età Moderna (SISEM), Consulta Universitaria del Teatro (CUT), American Society of Eighteenth Century Studies (ASECS), Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture (HECAA).