Dr Eleanor Chiari from University College London and the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies at the University of London School of Advanced Studies has joined the team of bloggers.

Her interdisciplinary research interests center on cultural memory, material culture and oral history. She has specialized in the social and cultural history of the city of Turin (with a particular focus on the 19th and 20th century; on the history and representation of the Second World War; mass migrations; the anni di piombo ). Her oral history research has addressed questions of collective forgetting, civil war, trauma and state violence. Her articles, based on research she conducted for her recently completed PhD, relate to prisons, memory and space, dark tourism and the consumption of violence. She is currently preparing her dissertation for publication.