About Me
Professor Flavia Marcello is an expert on the unique and multi-layered history of Rome with a focus on the Italian Fascist Period. She is a writer, educational consultant with Synergy3 Consulting and also works as a curatorial consultant, most recently with the Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne.
She has taught the history, theory and practice of architectural design for over thirty years at the University of Melbourne, Deakin University and Swinburne University where she is now Adjunct Professor.
She lived in Rome for eight years teaching the history of its art and its monuments on site for Temple and Penn State Universities as well as John Cabot and the American University in Rome.
In 2022 she was a Balsdon Fellow at the British School in Rome
She has book chapters with Ashgate, Routledge and Brill and has published widely read articles in Modern Italy, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and Rethinking History.
Her monograph Giuseppe Pagano. Design and Social Change in Fascist Italy came out in January 2020 with Intellect Press.
She is a lead investigator on the Australian Research Council Discovery Project Mapping Creativity in Captivity which charts how Italian PoWs used creativity to manage trauma and displacement during World War two.
Her second book After the Fall on the legacy of Fascism in contemporary was published by Bloomsbury in 2024.
She is current President of the Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand.