Professor Robert Lumley
Professor of
Italian Cultural History
Head of Department
email: r.lumley@ucl.ac.uk
phone: +44 20
7679 3026
internal-phone: 33026
Office Hours: Term One Tuesdays 11.30-12.30; Wednesdays 11.30-12.30 (or by appointment via email)
Research
areas: Cultural history of 20th century Italy; Arte Povera; experimental films of Yervvant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi.
Publications include:
- The Museum Time-Machine (ed, 1987); L'industria del museo (1989, 2005)
- Culture and Conflict in Postwar Italy (ed. with Zygmunt Baranski, 1990)
- Umberto Eco, Apocalypse Postponed: Writings on Media and Culture (1994)
- States of Emergency: Cultures of Revolt in Italy 1968-78 (1990); Dal '68 agli anni di piombo (1998)
- Italian Cultural Studies: An Introduction (ed. with David Forgacs, 1996)
- Italian Journalism. A Cultural Anthology (1996)
- The New History of the Italian South (ed. with Jonathan Morris, 1997); Oltre il meridionalismo (Carocci, 1998)
- Italian Cityscapes. Culture and Urban Change in Contemporary Italy (ed. with John Foot, 2004); Citta' visibili (Il Saggiatore, 2007)
- Arte Povera, Tate Publications, 2004
- Marcello Levi: Ritratto di un collezionista/Marcello Levi: Portrait of a collector. Dal Futurismo all'Arte Povera/From Futurism to Arte Povera,Turin, (with Francesco Manacorda,2005 ).
- Entering the Frame: Cinema and History in the Films of Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi (Oxford, Peter Lang, 2011)
Further information and a full list of publications are available on IRIS
