Claudia Baldoli (University of Milan), Gianluca Fantoni (Nottingham Trent University), Diana Moore (John Jay College of Criminal Justice), for the The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Italy International Conference.

Claudia Baldoli (PhD, London School of Economics) is Associate Professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Milan. A sound and prolific scholar of modern Italy, she has (co-)authored or (co-)edited numerous books, including Storia di un’opposizione al regime (with Luigi Petrella, Rome: Carocci, 2024); Bolscevismo bianco. Guido Miglioli fra Cremona e l’Europa (1879-1954) (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2021); Italians Beyond Italy/Italy Beyond Italians: Transnational Cultural Strategies and the Construction of Identities, special issue of Modern Italy (2020).

Gianluca Fantoni is Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Humanities at Nottingham Trent University. His training is in twentieth-century Italian history, cultural studies and film studies. He is the author of Italy Through the Red Lens: Italian Politics and Society in Communist Propaganda Films (1946-79) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), and Storia della Brigata ebraica. Gli ebrei della Palestina che combatterono in Italia nella Seconda guerra mondiale, Turin, Einaudi, 2022. An English version of the book will soon be published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. He is General Editor of Modern Italy (Cambridge University Press).

Diana M. Moore (PhD, The Graduate Center, CUNY) teaches at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice – CUNY. An historian with a focus on women and gender justice in late 19 th -century, she has published a book, Revolutionary Domesticity in the Italian Risorgimento: Transnational Victorian Feminism,1850-1890 (New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2021) and many articles, amongst the most recent: “Giuditta Tavani Arquati, Anti-Catholicism, and Feminism in the Fight for Rome, 1867-95,” California Italian Studies (2024); “Africa for the Africans?: Risorgimento Republicans and Cosmopolitan Nationalists in an Age of Empire,” European History Quarterly (2023).