Riccardo Marchi joined the University of South Florida in January 2005, after teaching graduate courses at the Scuola di Specializzazione in Storia dell’Arte at Università Cattolica in Milan, Italy (2002-2004). He studies and teaches 20th century art, which he seeks to understand in the light of philosophy and critical theory that investigate the issues of vision, perception and representation. His current research project analyzes the emergence of abstract painting and of ways of seeing and appreciating it, focusing on the artistic practice, theory and reception of Umberto Boccioni, Wassily Kandinsky and Robert Delaunay in Berlin between 1912 and 1913. Marchi has also published studies in the history of 20th century art history, including most recently the Italian edition of Max Dvorák’s 1918 Idealismus und Naturalismus in der gotischen Skulptur und Malerei, accompanied by a critical essay on Dvorák’s project of art history and its relationship to Expressionism (“Max Dvorák e la storia dell’arte come parte della Geistesgeschichte”: 107-197, in M. Dvorák, Idealismo e naturalismo nella scultura e nella pittura gotica, Milan: Franco Angeli, 2003
http://www.francoangeli.it). Besides receiving several grants for research abroad from Università Cattolica and from the University of Chicago, Marchi was a Fulbright Fellow to the United States, a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellow, a Stuart Tave Teaching Fellow and a Fellow at the Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago. In 2004, he declined a Fellowship at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University and a Whiting Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. Marchi’s classes include: 20th century art; Painting in Early 20th century Europe; The Purity of Painting; Modernism, Postmodernism and Beyond. During the academic year 2007-2008 Marchi is in residence at the Getty Research Institute, where he has been awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship.