Luisa Passerini
Professor of Cultural History
University of Torino
External Professor of History
European University Institute, Florence
Director of the research group
« Europe : Emotions, Identities, Politics »
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen
as the recipient of the Research Prize of Nordrhein-Westfalen for 2002-4
Mail : luisa.passerini@unito.it
Present trends of research European identity; the historical relationships between the discourse on Europe and the discourse on love; gender and generation as historical categories; memory and subjectivity
Recent publications - Europe in Love, Love in Europe. Imagination and Politics Between the Wars, London and New York, NYU Press, 1999.- Il mito d'Europa. Radici antiche per nuovi simboli, Firenze, Giunti Editore, 2002.- Memory and Utopia. The primacy of intersubjectivity, London, Equinox Publishing, 2007.- Love and the Idea of Europe, Oxford-New York, Berghahn Books, 2009.
As editor - Across the Atlantic: Cultural Exchanges between Europe and the United States, Bruxelles, P.I.E.-Peter Lang, 2000. - Figures d'Europe. Images and Myths of Europe, Bruxelles, Peter Lang, 2003.- (with Ruth Mas), « Europe and Love - L'Europe et l'amour », Special Issue of the European Review of History, vol. 11, n° 2, Summer 2004. - (with Nerina Milletti), Fuori della norma. Storia lesbiche nell'Italia della prima metà del Novecento, Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier, 2007.- (with Luisa Accati), La laicità delle donne, Firenze, EPAP, 2008.
