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CARNAGHI Benedetta

bc552@cornell.edu
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  • University of South Florida

BIOGRAFIA

Benedetta Carnaghi is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa. As a historian of modern Italy, Germany, and France, she examines totalitarianism from below by exploring the everyday experience of terror under authoritarian regimes. Her first book manuscript, Agents of Betrayal: A Comparative History of Fascist and Nazi Spies, 1927-1945, draws on previously unexplored police records and court trials to tell the stories of the largely forgotten spies who enforced Nazi and Fascist repression. Her second book project, Making Fun of the Fascists: Humor Against the Leader Cult in Italy, France, and Germany, 1922-1945, conceptualizes humor as a form of resistance to authoritarianism. She compares anti-fascist satire in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and Vichy France, exploring forms of humorous opposition ranging from popular jokes to print publications and comic radio broadcasts. Throughout, she argues that laughter functions as a multifaceted and multilingual form of transnational resistance: a psychological weapon, a defense mechanism, a morale booster, and a means of countering the false propaganda of authoritarian leaders. Dr. Carnaghi was previously a British Academy Newton International Fellow at Durham University, an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin, and a visiting lecturer at Cornell University. She earned her doctorate in History from Cornell in 2021, winning the Messenger-Chalmers Prize for the Best Dissertation on Human Progress & the Evolution of Civilization.

PUBBLICAZIONI

Monographs in Preparation

  • Agents of Betrayal: A Comparative History of Fascist and Nazi Spies, 1927-1945 (final stages of revision).
  • Making Fun of the Fascists: Humor Against the Leader Cult in Italy, France, and Germany, 1922–1945 (new project).

Edited Volumes

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles & Contributions to Edited Volumes

  • With Michelle Crow, Tamar Gutfeld, Leigh York, and Tracy Hamler Carrick: “Graduate Writing Support amid Crisis: Write Together at Home.” In Alvarez, Sara P. Yana Kuchirko. Mark McBeth. Meghmala Tarafdar. Missy Watson (eds.) Literacy and Learning in Times of Crisis: Emergent Teaching Through Emergencies. New York: Peter Lang, 2022: 275-298.
  • Devenir traîtres professionnels au cœur des réseaux résistants et de l’antifascisme en exil. Une histoire de faiblesse(“Professional Traitors at the Heart of the Resistance at Home and in Exile: A Story of Weakness”), Cahiers d’Agora : revue en humanité, Issue 6, “Le traître en politique: profils, parcours et perception,” December 2021. URL:https://cyagora.cyu.fr/version-francaise/cahiers-dagora-revue-en-humanites/11-devenir-traitres-professionnels-au-coeur-des-reseaux-resistants-et-de-lantifascisme-en-exil-une-histoire-de-faiblesse
  • Postfazione (Afterward), La nascita di una biografia, una testimonianza intellettuale (“The birth of a biography, an intellectual testimony”) in Frank Rosengarten. Silvio Trentin dall’interventismo alla Resistenza (“Silvio Trentin from interventionism to the Resistance”). Città di Castello (Perugia): Ronzani, 2021: 325-334.
  • “Mussolini’s Four Would-be Assassins: Emergency Politics and the Consolidation of Fascist Power.” Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 27:1 (2022), published online on September 8, 2021. URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2021.1950340
  • “Betraying Your Own: Jewish Spies and the Deportation of Jews during the Second World War.” S:I.M.O.N. Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation, Vol 7 No 2 (2020): 50-65. URL: https://simon.vwi.ac.at/index.php/simon/article/view/169
  • With Guillaume Pollack and Vincent Houle: “Frontières. Circulations, vie quotidienne, illégalités. Introduction.” Les Cahiers Sirice 2019/1 (No 22): 5-14. URL: https://www.cairn.info/revue-les-cahiers-sirice-2019-1-page-5.htm
  • With Guillaume Pollack and Vincent Houle: “Borders. Circulations, daily life, illegalities. Introduction.” Les Cahiers Sirice 2019/1 (No 22): 5a-14a. URL: https://www.cairn.info/revue-les-cahiers-sirice-2019-1-page-5a.htm
  • “Herr Himmler’s Agents.” Hoover Digest 2019, No. 1: 176-189. URL: https://www.hoover.org/research/herr-himmlers-agents
  • “Three Layers of Ambiguity: Homosexual Spies and International Intrigue in Fascist Italy.” The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945. Volume 13, 2017 | “International Intrigue: Plotting Espionage as Cultural Artifact.” URL: http://scalar.usc.edu/works/the-space-between-literature-and-culture-1914-1945/vol13_2017_carnaghi
  • Silvio Trentin e il contributo della Resistenza al progetto di costruzione europea (“Silvio Trentin and the contribution of the Resistance to the European Union project”) in Fulvio Cortese (ed.). Liberare e Federare: l’eredità intellettuale di Silvio Trentin (“Liberate and Federate: The intellectual heritage of Silvio Trentin”). Florence: Firenze University Press, 2016: 241-252.
  • Virginia d’Albert-Lake, une américaine dans la Résistance. Aspects internationaux et rôle des femmes dans les réseaux(“Virginia d’Albert-Lake, an American in the Resistance. International aspects and women’s role in the networks”). Bulletin de l’Institut Pierre Renouvin 1/ 2014 (N° 39): 113-127.
    URL: https://www.cairn.info/revue-bulletin-de-l-institut-pierre-renouvin1-2014-1-page-113.htm
  • Silvio Trentin, un fédéraliste en guerre contre le fascisme (“Silvio Trentin, a federalist at war with fascism”). Bulletin de l’Institut Pierre Renouvin 1/ 2013 (N° 37): 121-132.
    URL: https://www.cairn.info/revue-bulletin-de-l-institut-pierre-renouvin1-2013-1-page-121.htm
  • Argante Bocchio. Una storia del Novecento (“Argante Bocchio. A story of the Twentieth Century”). l’impegno, year XXXI, new series, n. 2, December 2011: 43-65.

Book Reviews

Public Writing