Dr Axel Körner
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Reader in Modern European History Office hour: by appointment |
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I am a cultural and intellectual historian of nineteenth century Europe, with strong interests in social and political developments and historiography as well as methodology and theory. Most of my research deals with Italy, France, Germany and the Habsburg monarchy between the late eighteenth and the early twentieth centuries. Particular fields of interest are transnational history, the European Revolutions of 1848 and the history of nineteenth century opera. I am director of UCL's Centre for Transnational History, where my own work concentrates on the relationship between nations and states as well as the transfer of ideas and culture. My most recent book deals with the municipal politics of culture in Italy between Unification and Fascism, including chapters on musical theatre, museums and archaeological excavations, monuments and commemorations. The book argues that in the case of Italy, the Age of Nationalism was also an age of municipalities and transnational cultural exchange. A previous book looked at workers' songs and Labour movements in nineteenth century France and Germany. My books also include an edited collection on the Revolutions of 1848. I am currently finishing a monograph on America in the nineteenth century Italian imagination, including chapters on major political thinkers such as Carlo Catteneo and Mazzini, on operatic representations of the United States and on Italian perceptions of the American Civil War. Together with my colleagues Nicola Miller and Adam Smith I have worked for four years on an AHRC-funded research project 'The American Way of Life. Images of the United States in nineteenth century Europe and Latin America', which will result in a major collective volume. I hold a Maîtrise d'Histoire from the University of Lyon II and a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. In 2007 I was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. and in 2008 a Visiting Professor at the ENS Paris. in 2009 I was a Visiting Fellow at the Remarque Institute of New York University. Areas of PhD Supervision Modern European History (France, Germany, Habsburg Monarchy, Italy) 19th-20th Century Intellectual and Cultural History 19th Century European Labour History Transnational and Comparative History Historical Theory, History of Historiography Students Currently Supervised -Between Revolution and Reform: The 1848 Hungarian national movement and British Liberalism -Subterranean Bourgeois Blues: Urban Folk Music Revivalism in England and America, 1945-1975 Students Previously Supervised -Historical Semantics in Deutscher Werkbund theory and practice 1907-1929 -The American Way of Life: Images of the US in 19th-century Europe and Latin America: a case study of France -European Internationalism(s), 1880-1930: Brussels as a centre for transnational cooperation -Leopold von Ranke and the religious foundation of scientific history Select Publications
-Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy: From Unification to Fascism (2008) (paperback edition 2011) - 'Music of the future: Italian Theatres and the European Experience of Modernity between Unification and World War One', in European History Quarterly (2011) - 'The Experience of Time as Crisis: on Croce's and Benjamin's Concept of History', in Intellectual History Review (2011) 151-169 - 'Local Government and the Meaning of Political Representation: a Case Study of Bologna between 1860 and 1915', in Modern Italy (2005) -ed. 1848 - A European Revolution? International ideas and national memories of 1848 (2000, 2003) - Das Lied von einer anderen Welt: Kulturelle Praxis im französischen und deutschen Arbeitermilieu, 1840-1890 (1997) |
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