Martina Salvante
Assistant Professor - Twentieth-Century European History, Faculty of Arts
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Biography
I joined the Department of History at the University of Nottingham in September 2019.
I completed my BA/MA in History at the Università degli Studi di Firenze (Florence, Italy) and received my PhD in History from the European University Institute. I was an Irish Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for War Studies, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Warwick. I worked as a teaching associate at Trinity College Dublin, Università degli Studi di Firenze, John Cabot University and as a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Rome. I was a Cendari visiting fellow at the Universität Stuttgart in Germany and a visiting scholar at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina.
Expertise Summary
I specialise in the social and cultural history of Modern Italy and Europe and I have a particular interest in topics like fascism, gender and masculinities, sexuality, the First World War and disability.
I am a member of the editorial board of the journal Genesis, which specialises in women's and gender history. The journal is promoted by Italy's Society for Women Historians (Società italiana delle storiche, SIS) and has been rated as "class A" by ANVUR (the Italian rating agency for scientific journals).
Teaching Summary
I convene the second-year module European fascisms, 1900-1945, which examines and compares the rise of fascist movements in Italy, Germany and other European countries. I also convene for finalists… read more
Research Summary
My work has extensively focused on the interrelationship between gender and nation, while recently my attention has shifted to the intersection between gender and disability. I have been increasingly… read more
I convene the second-year module European fascisms, 1900-1945, which examines and compares the rise of fascist movements in Italy, Germany and other European countries. I also convene for finalists the Special Subject Transnationalising Italy: A History of Modern Italy in Transnational Perspective, which looks at the history of modern Italy from a transnational framework in order to illuminate different facets of the connections between Italy and the wider world.
In 2023-24, I also convene the Y1 survey module The Contemporary World since 1945.
In the past, I contributed my expertise to the Y2 modules Politics and Protest: The Last Hundred Years of Music History and The Politics of Memory in Postwar Western Europe.
As a seminar tutor, I have contributed to the first-year modules Learning History and The Contemporary World since 1945.
At the PG level, I convene the MA module Daily Life under Authoritarian Regimes and contribute to Past Futures: Reimagining the Twentieth Century.
Current Research
My work has extensively focused on the interrelationship between gender and nation, while recently my attention has shifted to the intersection between gender and disability. I have been increasingly interested in examining the spaces and practices of negotiations between individuals and the state.
I am working on a project on Italy's disabled veterans of the First World War under the fascist regime. This leads me to engage with diverse questions such as gender and masculinity, welfare and humanitarianism, activism, political violence, and transnational links.