Cristina Baldacci is an associate professor of contemporary art history at Ca' Foscari University in Venice.

Her research interests focus in particular on archives as metaphor and art form; practices of appropriation, montage, and re-enactment; image theory and visual culture; and the challenges facing art history, artistic practices, and archives in relation to the Anthropocene.

She is co-editor of the book Venezia e l'Antropocene (Venice and the Anthropocene), published by wetlands in November 2022.