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Ruth Ben-GhiatProfessor
of
Italian
,
History
;
Chair, Department of Italian Studies
Ph.D. (comparative history), Brandeis; B.A., University of California at Los Angeles (history).
Email:
ruth.benghiat@nyu.edu
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Areas of Research/Interest: Modern Italian culture and history, twentieth-century European politics and culture; film history; fascism and the politics of its memory; colonialism and empire.
External Affiliations: Editorial Board of the Journal of Modern Italian Studies; Editorial Board of the Journal of Romance Studies; American Association of Italian Studies, American Historical Assocation, Modern Language Association, Association for Studies in Modern Italy (UK), Societa per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea (Italy) Society for Italian Historical Studies, New York Film and Video Council; Advisory Board, European History Quarterly.
Fellowships/Honors: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship; National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship; Mellon Foreign Area Fellowship, Library of Congress; Fulbright Research Fellowship; Getty Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship; Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant; American Philosophical Society Grant.
Select Publications:
Books
Author:
Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922-45. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2001, 2004
Italian translation: La cultura fascista. Bologna: Mulino, 2000, 2004.
Italian Films, Italian Histories: Colonialism, War, and the Legacies of Dictatorship (to be published by Indiana University Press).
Italian Prisoners of War and the Transition from Dictatorship (under contract with Princeton University Press).
Editor:
Gli imperi: dall’antichità ad oggi. Bologna: Mulino, 2009.
Italian Colonialism, (with Mia Fuller) . New York: Palgrave, 2005, 2008.
Articles and Book Chapters
“Un cinéma d’après-guerre: le néoréalisme italien et la transition démocratique,” Annales. Histoire, Science Sociales vol.63, no.6 (novembre-décembre 2008): 1215-1248
“Modernity is Just Over There: Colonialism and National Identity in Italy,” Interventions. International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, vol.8, no.3 (2006): 380-383.
“Unmaking the Fascist Man: Film, Masculinity, and the Transition from Dictatorship.” Journal of Modern Italian Studies, special issue on Italian masculinity, vol. 10, no.3 (fall 2005): 336-365.
"1860," in The Cinema of Italy, ed. Giorgio Bertellini (London: Wallflower Press, 2004), 20-29.
“The Italian Colonial Cinema: Agendas and Audiences,” Modern Italy, vol.8, no.1 (May 2003), pp.49-64.
“A Lesser Evil? Italian Fascism in/and the Totalitarian Equation,” in The Lesser Evil: Moral Approaches to Genocide Practices, eds. Helmut Dubiel and Gabriel Motzkin (New York and London: Routledge, 2004), pp.137-153.
“Die italienischen Universitäten in der Diktatur Mussolinis,” in Zwischen Autonomie und Anpassung: Universitäten in den Diktaturen des 20 Jahrhunderts, eds. Michael Grüttner and John Connelly (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoeningh), pp.39-66. Revised as “Italian Universities during Mussolini’s Regime,” in Michael Grüttner and John Connelly, eds., Universities and Modern Dictatorships (Pennsylvania State Press, 2005), pp. 45-73. 2002
“Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany: The Dynamics of an Uneasy Relationship,” in Art, Culture, and the Media in the Third Reich ed. Richard Etlin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), pp.257-286.
"The Fascist War Trilogy" in Roberto Rossellini: Magician of the Real, eds. D. Forgacs, S. Lutton, and G. Nowell-Smith (London: British Film Institute, 2000).
"Liberation: Film and the Flight from the Italian Past, 1945-1950," in Italian Fascism: History, Memory, and Representation, eds. R. Bosworth and P. Dogliani (New York: St. Martins Press, 1999).
"The Secret Histories of Roberto Benigni’s Life is Beautiful," Yale Journal of Criticism (April 2001).
"The Italian Cinema and the Italian Working-Class," International Labor and Working-Class History (April 2001).
"Envisioning Modernity: Desire and Discipline in the Italian Fascist Film," Critical Inquiry (Autumn 1996).
"Fascism, Writing, and Memory: The Realist Aesthetic in Italy, 1930-1950," Journal of Modern History (September 1995).
"Italian Fascism and the Aesthetics of the Third Way," Journal of Contemporary History (April 1996).
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