Bruna Bianchi

Bruna Bianchi is Associate Professor at Venice University, where she teaches Women's History and Gender Studies, and History of Contemporary Political Thought. Her work focuses largely on the military experience of soldiers and officers in World War I and on the involvement of civil society in war, looking particularly at the construction of a social discourse designed to justify violence on civilians in the law, in military thought and in state propaganda. Geraldine Ludbrook is Researcher at...See more

Bruna Bianchi is Associate Professor at Venice University, where she teaches Women's History and Gender Studies, and History of Contemporary Political Thought. Her work focuses largely on the military experience of soldiers and officers in World War I and on the involvement of civil society in war, looking particularly at the construction of a social discourse designed to justify violence on civilians in the law, in military thought and in state propaganda. Geraldine Ludbrook is Researcher at Venice University, where she teaches English Language and Linguistics. Her research focuses on a range of issues related mainly to language testing, English as a Lingua Franca, and teacher foreign language training. She is also interested in language and gender in an interdisciplinary context. Bruna Bianchi and Geraldine Ludbrook are Co-Editors in Chief of the Journal DEP: Deportate, esuli, profughe, an on-line interdisciplinary journal on gender studies and women's history. See less