Anna Cento Bull
Qualifications:
1983 PhD, University of Reading, UK.
1974 Laurea in Lettere Moderne, 110/110 cum laude, Università Federico II, Napoli.
Career:
1996- Professor, Dept. of Politics, Languages and International Studies (formerly
Dept of European Studies and Modern Languages, University of Bath).
1997-2000 Head of Department, Dept of European Studies and Modern Languages,
Bath.
1993-96 Senior Lecturer, Dept. European Studies and Modern Languages, Bath.
1987-93 Lecturer, Dept of Modern Languages, Bath.
1985-87 Lecturer, Department of Italian Studies, University of Reading.
Professional posts:
Editor, Modern Italy (2005-2009); Member of Editorial Committee, Modern Italy
(2005-), Troubador, (2002-), Italianist (1997-); Member of Executive Committee,
ASMI (2005-2009); Peer Review College, AHRC (2009-).
Publications in the last 5 years
Books and Edited Journal Issues:
Speaking Out and Silencing: Culture, Society and Politics in Italy in the 1970s, ed.
with A. Giorgio (London: Legenda, 2006).
Italian Neofascism. The Strategy of Tension and the Politics of Non Reconciliation
(Oxford and New York: Berghahn, 2007).
Politica in Italia Edizione 2009 (Bologna: il Mulino) - Italian Politics 2009 (Oxford and
New York: Berghahn), ed. with Gianfranco Baldini, 2009.
Ideology in Contemporary Italy (special issue of the Italianist, 31, 1, 2011, ed. with B.
Haddock).
Chapters in books:
‘Neofascism’, in R. Bosworth (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Fascism, Oxford, OUP,
2009.
‘Political violence, stragismo and ‘civil war’: an analysis of the self-narratives of three
neofascist protagonists’, in Imagining Terrorism.The Rhetoric and Representation of
Political Violence in Italy 1969-2009, ed. by P. Antonello and A. O'Leary, Oxford,
Legenda, 2009, 183-99.
‘The Strategy of Tension and the armed conflict in a context of (non)reconciliation’, in
Italy Today. The Sick Man of Europe, ed. by A. Mammone and G. Veltri, London,
Routledge, 2010, 101-13.
Articles:
‘Casting a Long Shadow: The Legacy of the Strategy of Tension for the Italian
Extreme Right’, The Italianist, 25:2, 2005, 260-79.
‘The Italian transition and national (non)reconciliation’, Journal of Modern
Italian Studies, 13:3, 2008, 405-21.
‘The stories of the Italian extreme right: issues of history, memory and identity’, Italian
Politics and Society, CONGRIPS, No. 67, 2009, 7-13.
‘Lega Nord: A Case of Simulative Politics?’, South European Society and Politics,
14:2, 129-46, 2009.
‘Stragi e strategia della tensione: due (e più) verità a confronto’, il Mulino, LVIII: 6,
2009, 1047-58.
‘Addressing contradictory needs: the Lega Nord and Italian immigration policy’ ,
Patterns of Prejudice, 44 (5), 2010, pp. 411-431.