Art History PhD Candidate
B. A., Tufts University, 2022
Cohort
2022
Graduation Year
2027
Emilia Cottignoli is an ecocritical art historian working on contemporary American land art/architectures and their implicated environments. Her dissertation uses the work of James Turrell as a starting point to consider human and non-human entanglements, extraction, and land use.
Articles (not related to her dissertation)
Cottignoli, Emilia. “Cathedral Star (DOMSTERN), Crystal House, Comet Stone: Essentialising Light as Crystalline Structure in Max Taut’s Berlin Tombstone.” Architectural Theory Review (2026).
Cottignoli, Emilia. “Containment, ‘Marmar,’ and ‘Margarita:’ Bringing the Sea into the Basilica Eufrasiana in Poreč, Istria.” Medieval Ecocriticisms 6 (2026): Article 3.