Francesca Campani received her Ph.D. in Modern History from the University of Lincoln (UK) and the University of Padua, where she is currently researcher at DiSSGeA and co-coordinator of the “Storie di sessualità e genere” working group. Her research mainly focuses on the history of sexuality and sexual science, with a particular interest in the development and circulation of cultural and scientific discourses on sexual pleasure between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In 2023, she was awarded a CARIPARO Fellowship during which she conducted research on nineteenth-century studies on folklore and sexuality. She has published articles in international journals such as “Social History of Medicine and Nuncius” and “Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science”. Her book, “La scienza del piacere. Paolo Mantegazza e lo sviluppo dei saperi scientifici sulla sessualità nell'Italia dell'Ottocento” [The science of pleasure. Paolo Mantegazza and the Emergence of Scientific Knowledge on Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Italy] (Unicopli), is currently in press. She will conduct her MSCA GF project “OBSEX” at DiSSGeA under the supervision of Professor Carlotta Sorba, at MacMillan Center (Yale) with Professor Paola Bertucci and at the University of Exeter (UK) with Professor Kate Fisher.