Catharine Rossi (PhD, Design History, Royal College of Art) is Senior Lecturer in Design History at Kingston University in London. She has also taught as a visiting lecturer at Sotheby's Institute of Art. Publications include Crafting Design in Italy: From Postwar to Postmodernism (Manchester: MUP, forthcoming), The Italian Avant-Garde 1868-1976, co-edited with Alex Coles (Berlin, Sternberg Press, 2013), a catalogue essay for the Postmodernism: Style & Subversion 1970 – 1990 exhibition at London's V&A Museum, and articles for Journal of Design History, Design and Culture and Journal of Modern Craft. Her areas of expertise include post-war Italian design and political and socially-engaged approaches to design and its historiography.