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Ana-Maria Milčić is Postdoctoral Researcher in the research unit Art History.
Ana-Maria Milčić studied art history and English language and literature at the University of Rijeka, where she completed both her BA and MA. In 2017, she began her doctoral studies at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, supported by a Courtauld Scholarship and a CHASE award, completing her PhD in 2022 with a thesis D’Annunzio’s Futurists: Fiume from 1914 to 1934. In 2025–2026 she holds a postdoctoral fellowship at the ÖAW with a project titled From Habsburg Corpus Separatum to Imperial Afterlives: Visual Politics and Art in Fiume. Her research has been published in journals, edited volumes, and exhibition catalogues. Among them are ‘From Gowns to Uniforms and from the Palace to the Brothel: Women’s Lives and Political Allegory in D’Annunzio’s Rijeka, 1919–1921’ (Časopis za povijest Zapadne Hrvatske, 2018) and ‘Guido Keller’s Montecitorio Flight (1920) and Futurist Irredentism in Fiume’, forthcoming in the International Yearbook of Futurism Studies (2026). During and after her doctorate, she combined research, teaching, and curatorial work, holding teaching posts at the Courtauld Institute of Art and at Northwestern Polytechnic, Canada. From 2023, she worked as Senior Research Officer at the Ben Uri Gallery and Museum in London, where she continues as a consultant and curator of the forthcoming exhibition Disruptors: Image and Text in Exile (2026). Her earlier exhibitions include D’Annunzio’s Martyr(2019–2021), Bućan Art (2014), First World War and Avant-Garde Art: Deconstruction–Construction (2014), and Artist on Vacation (2014).
Period: 20th ct. modern
Area: Fiume, Adriatic, Habsburg Monarchy, Fascist Italy, Balkans
Topics: Themen: borderlands, modernism, avant-garde art, Futurism, Jewish avant-garde, feminism, exile, image-text relationship, identity, emotions, trauma
From Habsburg Corpus Separatum to Imperial Afterlives: Visual Politics and Art in Fiume
