INSTITUTE FOR DOCTORAL STUDIES
IN THE VISUAL ARTS
President / Professor of Art, Philosophy, and Visual Studies
Theory and practice of the visual arts; drawing, painting; Continental philosophy and aesthetics; cartography, mapping, psychogeography, and urban representation; art history; curatorial practices; interdisciplinary approaches to art and culture.
SIMONETTA MORO is a visual artist and scholar with a focus on painting, drawing and mapping practices. Her work has been exhibited internationally; publications include Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art: Poetic Cartography (Routledge, 2021) and The Vattimo Dictionary (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Moro holds a PhD in Fine Arts, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK; an MA in European Fine Arts, Winchester School of Art, UK; and a BFA in Painting, Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna, Italy. Born in Italy, she currently lives between New York City and northern Italy.
"The Vattimo Dictionary: Some Reflections." In California Italian Studies, 13(2). 2024
The Vattimo Dictionary (Edinburgh University Press, 2023)
Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art: Poetic Cartography (Routledge, 2021)
"Mapping as Aesthetic Practice: Toward a Theory of Carto-Aesthetics." In The Politics of Spatial Transgressions in the Arts, edited by Gregory Blair, Noa Bronstein (Palgrave 2020)
"Mapping practices and the cartographic imagination." Subjectivity 13(4), 298-314 (Palgrave/Springer, Dec. 9, 2019)
