Contact
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80134
Italy
ABOUT
Valentina Marcella is Lecturer in Turkish Studies at L’Orientale University of Naples. She was previously Research Fellow at the Istanbul Studies Center of Kadir Has University, Istanbul, and Visiting Researcher at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. She obtained her PhD in History and Civilization from the European University Institute of Florence. Her dissertation on the political role of satire in the aftermath of Turkey’s 1980 coup was awarded the James Kaye Memorial Prize for Best Thesis in History and Visuality. She has a background in Middle Eastern (L’Orientale) and Turkish Studies (SOAS). Her research interests cover satire, authoritarian regimes, counterculture, urban development, and Italo-Turkish relations. She is co-founder of the cultural association and online magazine "Kaleydoskop - Turchia, cultura e società".
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Turkish Studies
19th-21st Centuries
Cultural Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Turkey
All Middle East
Education
DPhil
| 2015
| History and Civilization
| European University Institute
MRes
| 2010
| History and Civilization
| European University Institute
MA
| 2008
| Languages and Cultures of the Near and Middle East
| School of Oriental and African Studies
BA
| 2006
| Islamic and Mediterranean Studies
| L'Orientale University of Naples
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