Maria Luisa Palumbo is a scholar, architect, and curator working at the intersection of architectural history and theory to question and promote notions of social, environmental, and gender justice. She is the author of New Wombs, Electronic bodies and architectural disorder (Birkhauser, 2000) and Paesaggi Sensibili. Architetture a sostegno della vita (duepunti edizioni, 2012) and the editor of several collective books. In 2012 she curated reMade in Italy, final section of Luca Zevi's Italian Pavilion at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale. In January 2021 she curated Towards Intersectional Justice. Unbuilding structures of oppression. Making space for inclusive, empowering and reparative practices, a two-day online event of lectures and workshops for the Ecoweek NGO. In 2021, for the Italian Pavilion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, she curated the online panels Europe, a Resilient Community? Critical Practices across the Mediterranean Border and, together with RebelArchitette, Architette di Resilienze. In 2023, together with Eun-Jeong Kim, she curated Architectures of Control and Resistance: New Histories of Architecture and Politics in the 20th Century, Cornell University's History of Architecture and Urbanism Society annual symposium. She is currently a PhD candidate in History of Architecture and Urban Development at Cornell AAP. Chaired by professor Samia Henni, her dissertation is titled “Land, Architecture, and Colonialism in Sicily and Libya, 1861-1943. Two intertwined histories.”