Patrizia di Bello

Head of the Department of History of Art and co-director, with Steve Edwards, of the History and Theory of Photography Research Centre at Birbeck College University of London. She is in charge of the Jo Spence Memorial Library Archive. She is the editor-in-chief of the quarterly History of Photography, and she is a member of the editorial board of the journals Art History and Photographies; she is on the Research Advisory Panel of the National Portrait Gallery, London, and a trustee of Mayday Rooms, London. She is the author of Women's Albums and Photography in Victorian England: Ladies, Mothers and Flirts (Ashgate, 2007), and Sculptural Photographs: From the Calotype to Digital Technologies (Bloomsbury, 2018) among others. Her current research interests include the photographic culture of the magazines of second-wave feminism, and women and workers in nineteenth-century photography.