Vittoria Fiorelli is Full Professor of Modern History in the Department of Education, Psychologic and Communication Sciences of the University Suor Orsola Benincasa in Naples where she also teaches Modern and Public History in the specialist course in Digital Humanities. Ordinary member of the Accademia Pontaniana, member of the board of Società Napoletana di Storia Patria she is scientific supervisor of the Historical Archive and Library of the Institute where she is coordinating a founded Program of Digitalization. She is also Rector’s delegate for Gender Equality and member of the PhD board in International Studies in the University of Naples L’Orientale and in Italian National PhD program in Religious Studies (DREST). Principal Investigator in the PRIN «Worlds apart» Politics, Knowledges, and Representations of Confinement (16th-19th centuries) she is coordinator for a research unit in the PNRR PRIN NETEX - NETworks and EXchanges within the Congregations of the Roman Curia: a digital analysis of the Early Modern Church archives and in the project DEFI (Droits, Économie, Femmes, Italie). Gender and Agency in Venice, Florence, Naples, Palermo, 16th-18th century) founded by the ANR French program. Her main publications have focused on cultural and social transformation related to devotional and welfare practices, ecclesiastical organization, Inquisition and religious congregations, gender history, aristocratic network and family lineage.
