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Dr Filomena Viviana Tagliaferri

Visiting Fellow

Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

PhD in Historical Studies for Early Modern and Modern Ages – University of Florence (Italy, 2011); MA in Multimedia History and Historiography – University of Roma Tre (Italy, 2007); MA in Humanities, Early Modern History Specialisation – University of Roma ‘La Sapienza’ (Italy, 2005)

Filomena Viviana Tagliaferri is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and Senior Researcher Next Generation EU – FIVIBET. She is Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford, Visiting Fellow of the Oxford Centre for European History (OCEH), and Fellow of the Institute of History of Mediterranean Europe of the Italian National Research Council (ISEM-CNR). Viviana works on people’s mobility and cultural and social pluralism in urban environments in the early modern period. There are three main emphases in her research: an analysis of the changing mentalities in places or periods of cultural overlapping, the way in which cheap print – such as pamphlets and travel accounts – influenced the acceleration of certain historical processes, and the performance of cultural identity in urban spaces. Her current research project – Fivibet (www.fivibet.eu) – focuses on the social visibility of foreigner groups in early modern London. Her latest book on the role of cheap print in Elizabethan Reformation will be published in Italian at the end of 2025, while her edited volume Visible Strangers: Early modern urban identities, social visibility, and the Mediterranean paradigm will be published by Manchester University Press in September 2025.