Matthew D'Auria

Matthew D’Auria is an Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of East Anglia (UK). Matthew graduated in International and Political Studies at the University of Naples, l’Orientale. He then completed his PhD, focusing on French national narratives in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, at University College London. Before joining UEA, he taught and conducted research at Sciences Po – Paris, the University of Salerno, and UCL. His main research interest is the relationship between images of the nation and discourses about Europe in the modern age. Matthew is currently working on two major research projects. The first is a comparative and transnational history of nationhood and nationalism in France, Italy, and Spain from the early eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. His second major publication project is a work on Benedetto Croce and how his ‘napoletanità’, his sense of Italianess, and his Europeanism influenced his work.