Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages
Raised Faculty Building
University of Cambridge
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 9DA
United Kingdom
I am a third year PhD Candidate at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, supervised by Dr. John F. Pollard (Trinity Hall Cambridge) and Dr. Hannah Malone (Magdalene College Cambridge/FU Berlin). Prior to starting my doctoral studies, I did my MPhil in Modern European History at the University of Cambridge (St. Catharine' s College) and my BA in History and Political Science at the University of Munich.
In 2013, I worked as a Scientific Intern at the German Historical Institute in Rome under the supervision of Prof. Martin Baumeister (Munich/Rome), while in 2017 I worked as a Research Assistant for Dr. John F. Pollard. In 2018 I will serve as a juror for the Fifth Premio Nazionale Storia Contemporanea Friuli.
My research focuses on the Italian literature of the Great War (so-called letteratura di guerra) published between 1915 and 1940 and the role of veterans as public intellectuals and keepers of public memory during the Fascist ventennio. In my PhD dissertation (provisional title: Anatomy of a Forgotten Genre: A History of Italian war literature, 1918-1940) I examine war novels, memoirs, diaries, theatre plays written by veterans of the First World War, both from a standpoint of cultural production, as well as from a Gramscian perspective as regime-sustaining narratives of Fascist origin.
