Sarah Ferrari is a tenure-track assistant professor (RTDB) in History of Early Modern Art at the University of Padova, Department of Cultural Heritage (DBC). She has been awarded an MSCA grant funded by the EU for the research project WOMENWRITERS: "The Self-fashioning of Women Writers in Early Modern Italy (1490-1610)" (Proposal number: 101068976). She is currently working on this topic, while at the same time teaching the course "L'Arte italiana nel Rinascimento" for BA students of the degree course "Italian Medieval and Renaissance Studies" in the Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies (DiSLL) of the University of Padova.

The research project WOMENWRITERS aims to investigate the emergence of women writing in Italy in the so-called long 16th century, by addressing an aspect which has been only sporadically touched upon, i.e. the self-fashioning of women writers in portraits. It aims to provide the first interdisciplinary cross-analysis of portraits associated with the names of women writers whose works were published in the 16th century (e.g. Vittoria Colonna, Veronica Gambara, Tullia d’Aragona), particularly in anthologies of poetry.

More in general, Sarah's research interest are mainly set at the crossroads between art and literature, with a special focus on portraiture and landscape. She has published extensively on Giorgione and the young Titian, on the relationship between pastoral poetry and landscape paintings and drawings, as well as on the role of copies and history of collecting.

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