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TANIA ROSSETTO

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Position

Professoressa Associata

Address

VIA DEL SANTO, 26 - PADOVA

Telephone

0498274076

Tania Rossetto (Padua, 1973) is an Associate Professor of Geography, Deputy-Dean of the Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World (DiSSGeA) and a member of the Board of Directors of the PhD program in Historical, Geographical and Anthropological Studies at the Universities of Padua and Venice Ca' Foscari. Since 2021, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Italian Geographers (AGeI). Since 2006, she has been teaching courses at the University of Padua in: Cultural Geography, which she also taught at Ca' Foscari University of Venice from 2006 to 2010; Social Geography (at the Rovigo campus); and Culture and Representation of Urban Landscapes (in the Master's degree in Landscape Sciences). She is the Principal Investigator of the MoHu (Centre for Advanced Studies in Mobility & Humanities) departmental center at DiSSGeA. For the same department, she coordinates the Communication Commission, is the departmental contact for Agreements with foreign institutions, and participates in formalized international networks. She sits on the editorial board of the journal Cultural Geographies and in the Editorial Office of Geotema, the AGeI journal. With a humanistic background and a strong reference to the Anglophone context, her research includes theoretical and epistemological aspects of cultural geography, visual geographies and methodologies, image theory and photography studies, urban studies, the combination of mobility studies and humanities, and more consistently map studies according to the cultural cartography approach. On these topics, she has published articles in major international geography journals, including Progress in Human Geography, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Environmental and Planning D: Society and Space, Social and Cultural Geography, and Urban Studies. In 2019, she published the monograph "Object-Oriented Cartography: Maps as Things" (Routledge), in which she brings object-oriented philosophy and cartographic theory into dialogue. She co-edited (with Laura Lo Presti) the Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities (2024). She has long dealt with the Venice Lagoon, to which she dedicated a volume in 2009 ("The Venice Lagoon: Idea and Image. Materials for a Cultural Geography", Cafoscarina). With Alberto Vanolo and Francesco Chiodelli, she published "Cities. Critical Introduction to Urban Geography" (UTET, 2025).

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  • Ricevimento: in presenza o via Zoom su richiesta di appuntamento scrivendo alla email tania.rossetto@unipd.it; Office hours: in person or via Zoom by appointment. Please request an appointment by writing to tania.rossetto@unipd.it

Research Area

Map studies: Map theory and Post-representational cartography; Cartography and Object-Oriented Philosophy; cartographic practices, multisensoriality, and materiality; relationships between visual studies and cartographic studies; Cartography and difference; cartographic signs and urban landscape.

Geo-visual studies: theory of photography and spatial aspects; visual culture and geography; visual research methodologies; repeat photography.

Theoretical aspects of cultural geography: comparison between cultural turn and recent non-representational theories; 'geohumanities'; post-human geographies; mobility and the humanities.

Literary geography: urban literary studies; maps in literary texts.

Urban studies: urban landscape, urban marketing and branding, the city and differences, urban policies and coexistence in the multi/intercultural city; ethnoscapes.

Geographical areas of particular interest: Venice and its lagoon, the European Union, the European city; Berlin; London; Seoul.