Warwick Venice Centre Community
The Warwick Venice Centre (WVC) Team
Dr. Bryan Brazeau (SFHEA)
Academic Director, Warwick Venice Centre
Bryan is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Liberal Arts at Warwick where he teaches a wide range of interdisciplinary modules, including short courses on Venice and Sustainability, and Venice as a Tradition of Resistance and Representation. He is a specialist in early modern Italian Literature from Dante to Tasso. He is currently working on a book on the epic writings of Lucrezia Marinella, a Venetian polymath and proto-feminist in the early seventeenth century. He obtained his PhD in Italian Studies from New York University in 2015 and has been teaching programmes in Italy since 2013. He is passionate about opening up Venice to a wider audience, about the city's sustainability, and loves to create new networks, bridges, and connections.
If you have a glimmer of an idea for something you'd like to organise in Venice, he would love to hear from you.
Chiara Croff
Warwick Venice Centre Administrator
Chiara joined the University of Warwick in 2001 after working for the Biennale Art Exhibition and Film Festival press office for a number of years. She is based in Venice where she is the resident administrator for the Warwick Venice Centre at the Palazzo Giustinian-Lolin.
Chiara is in charge of all administrative aspects of the centre. She organises bookings, teaching programmes held at the Centre, as well as international conferences, summer schools, and other cultural and institutional events. In 2013 she won the first prize in a campaign organized by the Venice Opera House La Fenice to tackle violence against women.
Ocean Critchley
Warwick Venice Centre Assistant
Ocean is a Warwick History of Art alumna who participated in the Venice term in 2014. So inspired by the experience made possible by the university she moved back to Venice after graduating and has been living there ever since. Now she is a tutor and English teacher in the city and works as part of the team helping with the everyday running of the Warwick Venice Centre.
Denise Hewlett
International Partnerships Officer (Europe), International Strategy and Relations
Denise joined the University of Warwick in 1999. Since joining she has worked on a number of EU funded project including EUTOPIA. She works closely with the relevant academic leads and wider ISR team to help develop and deliver international partnerships in Europe.
Denise works with the WVC Academic Director and WVC Administrator on the day-to-day running of the Centre.
The Warwick Venice Centre (WVC) Advisory Board
The Advisory Board oversees and supports the development and delivery of the WVC Strategy. Minutes from the Advisory Board will be shared with International Committee.
Denise Hewlett (Secretary)
International Partnerships Officer (Europe), International Strategy and Relations
Chiara Croff
Warwick Venice Centre Administrator
Shaul Bassi
Professor, Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies
Ca'Foscari University, Venice
