Raffaella Bianchi, PhD
Research Fellow in International Relations, Politics and History
I am a cultural historian. My research focuses on the history of theatres, music(s) and politics, identities (national, gender, religious). I also enjoy engaging in archive research and projects of public history.
My monograph: A Cultural History of La Scala during the Risorgimento (1814-1848) analyses original archival sources I discovered from a cultural studies perspective.
The latter was a discipline I discovered while writing my Ph.D in Politics, History and IR at Loughborough University (UK, 2010). After that, I taught Modern European History and Political Science in Gaziantep (Turkiye) and Istanbul until 2015; and I published an article on Popular Music on the role of music for constructing political identities in the Gezi Park movement.
Upon my return to Milan, I assumed a teaching position at MIM and am currently in charge of a public history project that is focused on assembling an archive of oral sources concerning the commercial development of the Internet in Italy.
I am Italian native speaker, fluent in English and French and I have a working knowledge of Spanish and Turkish.
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My ORCID iD is 0000-0002-5523-5785.
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I am editor of the journal of migration literature El-Ghibli. My own blog is http://www.el-ghibli.org/raffaella-bianchi-3/.