Her work examines the artistic construction of Spanish identity and nationalism in painting, prints, fashion plates, and decorative arts. She has published articles in Dieciocho, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture, and The Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies. Her book-length manuscript, The Spanish Body: Nationalism, Fashion, and Visual Culture in the Revolutionary Period, is currently under review. Zanardi has received fellowships from the Fulbright Program, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain and United States, and the American Association of University Women.