Elisa Marazzi is Associate Professor at the University of Milan, where she teaches History of Printing and Publishing. She was awarded a Marie-Skłodowska Curie Research Grant at Newcastle University in 2019-21. She is a member of the scientific board of the journal “Società e storia” and of the International Centre on Interactive Books. After focusing on 19th and 20th century school-educational publishing, she later dealt with popular print (almanacs, flyers, small-format booklets with educational, practical and popular contents) and the related reading practices, often facilitated by the presence of images in these materials, which allowed them to be used at various social and cultural levels, including by the semi-educated, the illiterate and children. She also dealt with printing techniques for the production of educational posters, illustrated texts and movable books, and the transnational circulation of techniques, skilled workers, machinery and graphic materials in 19th century Europe.
Her publications in the field of visual history include:
- Cheap Toys for All in Nineteenth-Century Europe, in “Journal of Interactive Books”, 1 (2022) [Online].
- Stampe per crescere. Imparare, sognare e giocare con le immagini nell’Europa moderna, catalogo della mostra, Trento, Polistampa, 2021.
- Imparare con le figure. Tavole didattiche tra Otto e Novecento, in “Teca. Testimonianze, editoria, cultura, arte”, vol. 7 (2017), n. 11, pp. 155-170.