Costanza D’Elia’s research field concerns modern European intellectual history and visual history. Her most recent works focus on: Napoleonic iconography; the representations of power in 19th and 20th century Europe; Francesco De Sanctis’ role in European culture in the second half of the 19th century; the relationship between word and image in Carlo Levi and Alberto Savinio; and the reception of Leopardi in the interwar period. She is founder and editor of “Visual History. Rivista internazionale di storia e critica dell’immagine” (Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa-Roma), and teaches Modern History and Visual History at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio.
Her publications include Linea Leopardi. Rispecchiamenti e furti tra letteratura, arte, politica, Firenze, Olschki, 2022; Immagini di Napoli nell’Album D’Amato, in “Eikonocity”, 2022, 2; Napoleonische Herrschaft in Text und Bild, in: Napoleonische Expansionspolitik. Okkupation oder Integration?, a cura di G. Braun, G. Clemens, L. Klinkhammer, A. Koller, Berlin / New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2013.