Luisa Passerini

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Luisa Passerini (born 1941) is an Italian cultural historian. Formerly Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turin, she is External Professor of History at the European University Institute, Florence, and Visiting Professor in the Oral History Masters Program at Columbia University, New York.

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Life

Luisa Passerini was born in 1941 and educated at the University of Turin, graduating in philosophy and history in 1965. [1] She was politically active as a student, and in 1967 she spent time in Dar es Salaam, studying and working with the Mozambican liberation movement Frelimo. [2]

In the late 1970s Passerini moved away from social and political history to cultural history. [3] Torino operaia e Fascismo (1984) used oral history to expore the self-representation of working-class men and women in the Fascist period. [4] Autoritratto di gruppo (1988) combined oral history with novelistic treatment of a young woman's student experience in the late 1960s, with alternating chapters in diary form. [2]

In summer 1989 Passerini was visiting professor of history at the New School for Social Research in New York. In fall 1993 she was visiting professor at New York University. [2]

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References

  1. "Passerini, Luisa 1941-" . Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 Martha King (1997). "Passerini, Luisa (1941–)". In Rinaldina Russell (ed.). The Feminist Encyclopedia of Italian Literature. Greenwood Press. pp. 245–6.
  3. Luisa Passerini (October 2011). "A Passion for Memory". History Workshop Journal . 72 (1): 241–250.
  4. Richard Cándida Smith (Fall 1998). "Popular Memory and Oral Narratives: Luisa Passerini's Reading of Oral History Interviews". Oral History Review. 16 (2): 95–107.