Biography

Raluca Perta Duna is an Associate Professor at the University of Bucharest and researcher at The Institute of Literary History and Theory of the Romanian Academy. Her research centers on Renaissance representations of the author, in painting and literature, mainly on forms of self-portraiture, autobiographies and memoirs. Her book Me, the Author. Authorial representations in literature and painting, published in Romania in 2010, tried to outline (from an inter-disciplinary perspective) a short history and theory of Renaissance authorial representations. She is also interested in contemporary British self-portraiture.

Project Summary

This research project is concerned with early self-portraiture with professional tools (palette, brush, easel) produced in Italy between 1545-1560. She would like to investigate the connections with similar Dutch and German self-portraiture of this period to establish whether there is a particular Italian tradition or an international pattern.