Publications

This is a list of my publications.

They are arranged according to broad topics I have written about. 

OPERA & POLITICS

I have published several contributions focusing on La Scala opera house in Nineteenth century 

‘The Structure of Space and the Display of Hegemony at La Scala at its Origins, during Napoleonic period and Restoration’, The European Legacy: Towards New Paradigms, Vol.19, No. 1, January 2014 (AHCI indexed journal). 

‘The Risorgimento of La Scala: conspiracy and barricades’ in Roberto Illiano (ed.) “Studies on Italian Music History”. Vol. 8 Brepols Publishers (September 2013).

‘Was Opera in Italy the Nineteenth Century's Pop Music? Diverse Aspects of Opera in Milan before Italian Unification’, in Katalinic, V. Tuksar, E., White, H, eds., Musical Theatre as High Culture? The Cultural Discourse on Opera and Operetta in the 19th Century, Zagreb: HMD (Croatian Musicological Society), 2011, pp. 125-142.

I have also published on the function of music across borders and how the function of opera changed in Italian and Turkish identity politics

 ‘The Function of Opera across Borders: Italian and Turkish Identity Construction’, co-written with Bezen Coskun; Anglistica, special issue Guarracino, S. And Vitale, M., eds ‘Music across borders’, 2009, Vol.13, No. 2, pp. 59-70. Available online at:

http://www.anglistica.unior.it/content/music-and-performance-identity

ITALIAN IDENTITY POLITICS & the ARTS

‘I discorsi di cuori migranti in Italia: la rappresentazione dell’amore nei racconti degli scrittori migrant pubblicati da El-Ghibli’, September 2013.

‘The Politics of Disarray in Nanni Balestrini: Poetics, Referent and Musical Structure’ 
co-written with Raffaele Taddeo, in Mosaici: The Learned Journal of Italian Poetry, No. 4, April 2013. Mosaici is indexed in CELJ.

GENDER & NATIONALISM

‘Introduzione. Che Genere di Nazione?’ in Laura Guidi and Maria Rosa Pellizzari (ed.) 
Nuove Frontiere per la Storia di Genere, Atti del V Congresso SIS, (on print).

Raffaella Bianchi

I am assistant professor in political science

at Suleyman Şah University in Istanbul

where I teach European history,

Introduction to political science

and Music & Politics.

I am interested in identity politics, 

European cultural history 

and the intersections between music & politics.

I wrote a Ph.D in Politics, History and International Relations 

at Loughborough University (UK) 

with a thesis entitled: 

‘The Political Role of La Scala during the Risorgimento: 

hegemony and subversion, 1814-1848’. 

I participated in a number of international conferences, 

published contributions to edited books on gender, the Risorgimento and Nineteenth century opera, 

as well as articles in peer-reviewed journals, namely 

Anglistica, 

Mosaici: The Learned Journal of Italian Poetry

The European Legacy: Towards New Paradigms.