Research & Publications
I research women's work in post-WW2 France and Italy. I use oral history and film studies methodologies.
I am currently developing the project: The Vincentian Lab. Crisis, gender, and generational change in a World Catholicism (1940-present). This transnational project will collect a large database of oral histories with religious. It brings together a team of 5 researchers from UK, US, and France. My focus in this project will be on gendered religious work.
Monographs
Derounian, F. (forthcoming) Women’s Work in Italy 1945-65: In oral history and film. Bristol: Intellect.
Journal Articles & Book Chapters
Derounian, F. (2021) Il lavoro delle donne e la rinascita nazionale nel cinema del secondo dopoguerra. Il caso delle mondine. In De Santi, C. & Colleoni, F., eds. Cinema, History and Society /Cinema, Storia e Società. Manziana: Vecchiarelli Editore.
Derounian, F. (fall 2019) Seamstresses in the City: Modernity, Mobility, and Anxiety in Post-World War Two Italian Film. Annali d’Italianistica, vol. 37.
Derounian, F. (2018) Professed Professionals: How nuns conceive of their work in Post-World War Two Italy. Studies, vol. 107 (427).
Honours & Awards
British-Italian Society Prize 2019 for the chapter Religious in Oral History
Most Engaging Module Award 2018 for the module Visual Culture & the Information Society, University of Gloucestershire