Giovanni Lovisetto holds a BA in Classical Philology (2016) and an MA in Classical Art and Archaeology (2018) from the University of Pisa, as well as a graduate diploma from the Scuola Normale Superiore (2018, Pisa, Italy). He earned his PhD in Classical Studies from Columbia University in 2024. His dissertation, titled Cultures of Bondage: Bodily Constraint in Ancient Greece, examines visual and textual representations of bound bodies in ancient Greek culture, offering insights into their societal and ideological implications through an embodied and phenomenological lens.
Giovanni’s research spans Greek Art and Archaeology, Greek Literature, Mesopotamian Art, Classical Reception, and Queer and Affect theory. In 2022, he contributed to the exhibition She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca. 3400–2000 B.C. at The Morgan Library & Museum, which led to a scholarly publication on the embodiment of female divinities in Mesopotamian Early Dynastic art (2020). His other scholarly contributions include conference papers and academic articles on topics ranging from the hauntological and political implications of using 3D-printing technologies to reconstruct monuments destroyed by ISIS in Syria to representations of non-normative bodies in ancient and contemporary art.
Giovanni is also an active member of the archaeological team excavating at Selinunte (Italy), where he is working on a project focused on the architecture of Greek temple entrances.