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Claudio Fogu
Assistant Professor of Italian Studies
Educational Background
- Ph.D. in History, UCLA (1995)
- MA in History, UCLA (1988)
- BA Magna Cum Laude, UCLA (1987)
Academic Distinctions and Awards
- Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation Grant (2000-2001)
- Mershon Center Fellow, Ohio State University (1999).
- Jean Monnet Fellowship, European University Institute, Florence (1998-1999)
- Wolfsonian Foundation Summer Fellowship, Miami, Florida (1995).
- Ford Foundation Teaching Fellowship, UCLA (1993-1994).
Research Interests
- Relationship between Italian modernism and mass culture
- Fascist forms of imaginary and their relations to representations of fascism
- Relationships between 20th-century continental philosophy and visual culture
Major Publications
Books
- The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe. Ed. C. Fogu, W. Kansteiner and R. Lebow. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.
- The Historic Imaginary. Politics of History in Fascist Italy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. 288 pages.
Selected Articles & Book Chapters
- “Italiani brava gente: The Legacy of Fascist Historical Culture on Italian Politics of Memory." in The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe.
- “Politics of Memory and Poetics of History in the Making of European Identity.” Co-authored with Wulf Kansteiner. In The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe.
- “Nascita di una finzione. Guerra di secessione e cinema statunitense.” Zapruder 10 (May-August 2006): 130-138.
- “Fascism and Philosophy: the Case of Actualism.” South Central Review 23, 1 (Spring 2006): 4-22.
- “To Make History Present.” In Donatello Among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy. Ed. R. Crum and C. Lazzaro. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. 33-52.
- “Actualism and the Fascist Historic Imaginary.” History and Theory 42 (May 2003): 196-221.
- “ Fascismo-Stile and the Post-Historic(al) Imaginary.” In Fascism and Neofascism: Critical Writings on the Radical Right in Europe. Ed. Angelica Fenner and Eric D. Weitz. New York: Palgrave, 2004. Pp. 67-80.
- "L'immaginario storico fascista e la mostra della rivoluzione.” In Jeffrey Schnapp, Anno X. La Mostra della Rivoluzione e il senso fascista della storia, con una postfazione di Claudio Fogu. Pisa-Roma: Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali, 2003.
- “Decennale,” in Dizionario del fascismo , vol. 1. Turin : Einaudi, 2002. Pp. 397-400.
Work in Progress
- Italia-Stile: A Cultural History of Italian Style.
Monographic cultural history of 20th-century Italy with a specific focus on the intellectual construction of the notion of Italian style.- Déjà Vu and the End of History
- A Collection of essays on modernist conceptions of historical consciousness in the 20-th century
- Mediterranean-ness and Modernity:
Collective volume of essays focusing on Mediterranean expressions of modernity to emerge from a related conference planned with Prof. Victoria Holbrook (OSU)