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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8818-7898

Desirée Sabatini is an associate professor in Performing Arts (L-ART/05) at Link Campus University, where she coordinates the DAMS Degree Course and the Pathways to Excellence. She is qualified as 1st level professor in the 10/C1 competition sector. From 2021 to 2025, she served as the Rector's Delegate for Gender Policies and was President of the Single Guarantee Committee; she is currently the Rector's Delegate for the Third Mission and Placement.

She teaches History of Theater and Performing Arts, Institutions of Directing and Digital Screenwriting, and organizes courses dedicated to audiovisual and multimedia languages, with consolidated teaching experience also gained at Sapienza University of Rome, AFAM institutions, and higher education contexts. Her teaching activity is characterized by a strong intertwining of theatrical tradition, technological experimentation, and workshop practices, with particular attention to actor training and the transmission of performative knowledge.

Her research activity is mainly focused on the use of digital technologies applied to the history of theater and the performing arts, with specific reference to audiovisual archives, the digital restoration of historical documents, editing and publishing processes for research and teaching, and forms of documentation of theatrical memory. A further area of study concerns directing and staging practices in unconventional spaces and cultural venues, understood as active devices for the production of meaning and the valorization of cultural heritage.

She is Principal Investigator of the PNRR-MUR C.O.M. – City Open Museum project (2024–2026) and coordinator of the Rome unit of PRIN 2022 I_PAD – Italian Performance Archive in Digital, dedicated to mapping and disseminating the iconographic and audiovisual heritage of Italian media performance, starting with the Giacomo Verde Archive. She also participates in the European Jean Monnet FreeBeRI – Freedom of Belief and Right to Information project and is a member of the national ADV – Arti Digitali dal Vivo (Live Digital Arts) network.

She authored several essays published in national and international journals and several monographs, including Teatro e video. Teoria e tecnica della memoria teatrale (Bulzoni, 2010) and Performing Arts Archives. Per una rinascita della memoria teatrale in video (Artemide, 2023), the most recent, dedicated to the transformations of audiovisual performance archives and new forms of transmission of theatrical memory in the contemporary digital ecosystem.

She is part of scientific committees of journals and series in the sector and is a member of the board of directors of Alizé – Center for European and Transnational Historical Studies, the Scientific Committee of the Alessandro Fersen Foundation, and the Gerardo Guerrieri Cultural Association. She is also a technical member of regional commissions for live entertainment, cinema, and audiovisual media, with particular reference to digitization and restoration processes.

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