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Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- cecilia.brioni@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
- School/Department
- School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History
Biography
I hold a BA in Modern History (Università di Bologna, 2008), a Master's Degree in Modern History and Society (Università di Pisa and Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 2011), and a PhD in Italian (University of Hull, 2017). I previously was a Teaching Fellow in Italian at the University of Hull (2018-19), a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Bristol (2019-20), and an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-22) and a Teaching Fellow in Italian (2022-23) at Trinity College Dublin. I joined the History Department at Aberdeen in August 2023.
External Memberships
Co-convenor of the Modern Italian History Seminar Series - Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Studies
Visiting Researcher at Trinity College Dublin - Italian Department
Fellowships
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
- Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Membership of Learned Societies
- American Association for Italian Studies
- Association for the Study of Modern Italy
- Society for Italian Studies
Networks
- Italian Girlhood Studies Research Network
Latest Publications
America in Italian Culture: The Rise of a New Model of Modernity, 1861-1943 by Guido Bonsaver, Oxford, Oxford University Press, xx + 554 pp., £120.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-19-884946-9.
Modern ItalyContributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles‘Vedo che siamo moderni, eh?’: Representations of Social Media Use in SKAM Italia
Italian Contemporary Youth Television. Barra, L., Hipkins, D., O'Rawe, C., Renga, D. (eds.)Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersMargherita Buy.: Accounting the Career of an Ageing (Anti-)Diva
Italian Contemporary Screen Performers. Training, Production, Prestige. Barra, L., Formenti, C., Pierini, M., Pitassio, F. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersFashioning Italian youth: Young people's identity and style in Italian popular culture, 1958-75
Manchester University Press. 238 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksLeaving the group: Bologna as an urban mythscape for 1990s Italian youth
Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, vol. 8, pp. 207-226Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/jucs_00042_1
Prizes and Awards
2023 American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize for First Book - Fashioning Italian youth. Young people's identity and style in Italian popular culture, 1958-75 (Manchester University Press, 2023).
- Research
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Research Overview
My research interests focus on representations of bodies, style, age and ageing and gender in 20th- and 21st-century Italian popular culture, with a particular attention to the social and cultural construction of youth in a variety of cultural artefacts, including film, television, magazines, novels, and social media content. My monograph Fashioning Italian Youth: Young People's Identity and Style in Italian Popular Media, 1958-1975 (Manchester University Press, 2023) examines discourses around Italian young people's style and the body in youth-oriented popular culture from 1958 to 1975. My publications have examined the emergence of youth stardom in 1960s Italian television, representations of young masculinities and the trend of long hair in 1960s film and print media, Blackness and stardom in Italian culture from the 1960s to the present day, the Musicarello (an Italian musical, youth-oriented film genre), and the relationship between subcultural youth and urban spaces in 1990s novels set in Bologna. My current research investigates whether social media have allowed for a diversification of representations of youth in the Italian context, by looking at self-representations of Italian youth on YouTube.
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in History.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Research Specialisms
- Italian History
- Cultural Studies
- Gender Studies
- Media and Communication Studies
- Italian Society and Culture
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
Supervision
My current supervision areas are: History.
I would welcome the opportunity to supervise students interested in Modern European History, Italian History, Popular Culture and Popular Media (cinema, television, magazines, social media), Stardom and Celebrity, Social and Cultural History, especially (but not limited to) the history of representations of bodies, fashion, gender, age and sexuality in 20th-century Europe.
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
Research-led courses:
- HI306G History of the Body
Contribution in team-taught courses:
- HI1022 Europe in the Twentieth Century
- HI1027 Making History
- HI2020 The Birth of Modernity: Politics, Culture and Science in Europe, 1700-1870
- HI2027 'The Other': Histories of Minorities & The Marginalised
- HI356J Thinking History
Course coordination:
- HI304J/354J Historical Research for Visiting Students
- HI4518 History in Practice
Non-course Teaching Responsibilities
Departmental School Liaison Coordinator
Departmental GoAbroad Coordinator
- Publications
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America in Italian Culture: The Rise of a New Model of Modernity, 1861-1943 by Guido Bonsaver, Oxford, Oxford University Press, xx + 554 pp., £120.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-19-884946-9.
Modern ItalyContributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles‘Vedo che siamo moderni, eh?’: Representations of Social Media Use in SKAM Italia
Italian Contemporary Youth Television. Barra, L., Hipkins, D., O'Rawe, C., Renga, D. (eds.)Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersMargherita Buy.: Accounting the Career of an Ageing (Anti-)Diva
Italian Contemporary Screen Performers. Training, Production, Prestige. Barra, L., Formenti, C., Pierini, M., Pitassio, F. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersFashioning Italian youth: Young people's identity and style in Italian popular culture, 1958-75
Manchester University Press. 238 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksLeaving the group: Bologna as an urban mythscape for 1990s Italian youth
Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, vol. 8, pp. 207-226Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/jucs_00042_1
Shorn capelloni: Hair and young masculinities in the Italian media, 1965–1967
Modern Italy, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 3-16Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2019.25
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Rita e «La Zanzara»: la costruzione dell’identità giovanile italiana nei film Musicarelli (1958-1968)
Cinema e identità italiana: Cultura visuale e immaginario nazionale fra tradizione e contemporaneità. RomaTrE-Press, pp. 711-720, 9 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersTransnational ‘Italian’ stardom: Lara saint paul and the performativity of race
Italian Studies, vol. 73, no. 4, pp. 351-364Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2018.1499844
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Between two stages: Rita pavone and i giovani on Studio uno (1961-1966)
Italian Studies, vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 414-427Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2017.1370895
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