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