Alessio Ponzio

Alessio Ponzio

Alessio Ponzio

Position

Visiting Assistant Professor

Academics

Contact

Department of History
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL A1C 5S7

Office: A4003
Email: aponzio@mun.ca

Teaching

Before coming to Memorial University, I was an Assistant Professor of Modern European History and the History of Gender and Sexuality at the University of Saskatchewan (5 years, limited term). In addition to my academic appointments in North America, I have also been teaching LGBTQ+ Studies at the Università di Torino (Italy) since April 2022.

I bring a wide range of academic and research experience that allows me to teach broadly in the areas of modern European history (since the nineteenth century), history of European empires, modern German history, modern Italian history, history of fascisms, history of genocides, history of the Holocaust, transnational history, history of media, history of youth and education, history of gender and sexuality, queer history, trans* history, and queer studies.

 

Research Interests

I am the author of several articles and two books, one in Italian and one in English, devoted to Fascist youth education. The monograph Shaping the "New Man": Youth Training Regimes in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, published by the University of Wisconsin Press – George L. Mosse series – in 2015 (paperback in July 2017), changes our understanding of the pedagogical dimension of German-Italian relations under Fascism by exploring the extensive cross-fertilization that took place in the field of youth education between Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.

I am currently completing my third monograph - Scandalous Practices - based on my Michigan dissertation. This book, under contract with Temple University Press for publication in their "Sexuality Studies" series, offers a unique analysis of the history of post-fascist male same-sex sexualities in Italy.

One of my new projects, funded by a Canadian SSHRC Insight Development Grant, explores how 1950s Italian homophiles engaged with European and North American organizations to challenge the social, cultural, and religious discrimination they faced at home. An essay based on this research will shortly be published in the forthcoming book Transnational LGBTQ+: Networks and Activism in Europe and the Americas, 1940s-2000s.

 

Publications

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 Selected Articles and Book chapters:

  • “Die Führerschaftsausbildung in der Hitlerjugend und in den Italienischen Jugendorganisationen”, Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken 1 (2009), 489-511.
  • “L’Accademia della Farnesina: un esperimento di pedagogia totalitaria nell’Italia fascista (1927-1943)”, Mondo contemporaneo 1 (2008), 35-66.
  • “A Forgotten Story: The Training for the Teachers of Physical Education in Italy during the Fascist Period”, Sport in Society 1 (2008), 44-58.
  • “Corpo e anima: sport e modello virile nella formazione dei giovani fascisti e dei giovani cattolici nell’Italia degli anni Trenta (1931-1938)”, Mondo contemporaneo 3 (2005), 51-104.

Selected Reviews

  • Gabriella Romano, Italian Fascism’s Forgotten LGBT Victims. Asylums and Internment, 1922-1943, Journal of the History of Sexuality (forthcoming)
  • Keith Rathbone, Sport and physical culture in Occupied France. Authoritarianism, agency, and everyday life, Journal of Modern History (forthcoming)
  • Sebastian Huebel, Fighter, Worker, and Family Men. German-Jewish Men and Their Gendered Experiences in Nazi Germany, 1933-1941, Central European History, 56, n. 3 (2023)
  • Rachel Hope Cleves, A Life Beyond Sexual Morality, Canadian Journal of History / Annales canadiennes d’histoire, 56, 2 (2021)
  • The Holocaust and Masculinities. Critical Inquiries into the Presence and Absence of Men edited by Björn Krondorfer and Ovidiu Creangă, Central European History, 54 (2021).
  • John Champagne, Queer Ventennio. Italian Fascism, Homoerotic art and the Nonmodern in the Modern, Journal of Modern Italian Studies (2020)
  • Goran Miljan, Croatia and the Rise of Fascism: The Youth Movement and the Ustasha during WWII, American Historical Review (2020): 1107-1108.
  • Eden K. McLean, Mussolini’s Children. Race and Elementary Education in Fascist Italy, Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth (2020): 453-455.
  • Benjamin G. Martin, Nazi-Fascist New Order for European Culture, American Historical Review (2018), 314-315.

 

EDI Initiatives