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John Dickie

Professor in Italian Studies

email: j.dickie@ucl.ac.uk
phone: +44 20 7679 3988
internal-phone: 33988

Office Hours: On research leave during the academic years 2009-10 and 2010-11.

Research areas: representations of the Italian South, Italian nationalism and national identities, cultural history of liberal Italy, cultural and critical theory, organized crime, Italian food.

Publications include:

• Darkest Italy: The Nation and Stereotypes of the Mezzogiorno, 1860-1900 (1999)

• Cosa Nostra. A History of the Sicilian Mafia (2004)

• Delizia! A History of the Italians and their Food (2007)

• Una catastrofe patriottica. 1908: il terremoto di Messina (2008)

• He is currently working on a new book about organized crime. 

Further information and a full list of publications are available on IRIS

John Dickie's personal website

John Dickie discusses his new book Blood Brotherhoods on youtube.