Serena Galasso is a postdoctoral researcher specializing in the social, economic, and cultural history of late medieval Italy, with a focus on material culture, pragmatic literacy, numeracy, and gender roles. She holds a PhD in History from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales/École française de Rome (December 2021). Her dissertation on women’s pragmatic literacy and accounting in late medieval and Renaissance Florence received the Prix de la Chancellerie des universités de Paris. In 2019 she was a visiting graduate student at Harvard University with support from the Renaissance Society of America. She has taught as an ATER (research and teaching assistant) at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier. From 2022 to 2023, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Glasgow on the ERC-funded project Art and Inequality in the Shadow of the Black Death (PI: Samuel K. Cohn). In 2024, she joined the University of Padua (DiSSGeA) to lead ThiMo – Things in Motion: Material Practices in Late Medieval Households (Italy, 14th–15th centuries), funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU (MSCA Seal of Excellence @ UniPD). Her first monograph, Le droit de compter. Les livres de gestion et de mémoire des femmes (Florence, XVe–XVIe siècle), was published by the École française de Rome (2024). She has co-edited special issues of Cahiers d’études italiennes and Genesis, and published articles in Mélanges de l’École française de Rome, Genesis, Quaderni Storici, and in several collective volumes.