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Ivanna Velisone is a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She holds a B.A. in History from the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT) and an M.A. in Latin American Art History from the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM). Her M.A. research, supported by a fellowship from the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), focused on the intersection of photography, gender performance, and modernity in the work of German-Argentinean photographer Annemarie Heinrich. Since 2022, she has served as a professor of Latin American Art History at UTDT, where she also led undergraduate seminars related to her fields of study, such as “8M: Feminismos, imágenes y revolución”. Since 2021, she has been a Curatorial Assistant at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires. Prior to that, Ivanna held research internships at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires. Her research interests encompass Latin American visual culture, modern and contemporary artistic practices, particularly those at the intersection of various disciplines, and gender studies.