Alexandra Marraccini

Alexandra Marraccini is a postdoctoral research associate working on the Bilderfahrzeuge Project at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Studies, University of London. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in the History of Art for her doctoral dissertation entitled “, “Unfolded Worlds: Allegory, Alchemy, and The Image As Structure of Knowledge In Early Modern Northern European Scientific Books” (2018).  Alex earned her BA from Yale University in History (2009), where she was a Bartels Fellow at the Yale Center for British Art and a recipient of the Van Sinderen Book Collecting Prize. She earned her MA in Medieval Studies at University of Toronto (2010-11). In the 2016-17 academic year she was the RSA-Kress-Bodleian Fellow at the Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book, and finished her doctoral work as a visiting member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. She also works regularly as a reviewer and essayist, primarily for the Times Literary Supplement.