The Faculty
Dr Isabel DiVanna
Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of History
Møller Centre, Churchill College
Churchill College
Storey's Way
Cambridge
CB3 0DE
Biography:
Isabel has two doctorates in History, one from the University of Manchester and one from the University of Cambridge.
Subject groups/Research projects
- Modern European History:
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19th century French intellectual history
- Political Thought And Intellectual History:
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French intellectual history (18th-19th c), philosophy of history
- World History:
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19th century intellectual history.
Departments and Institutes
Teaching
Isabel is an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of History, where she lectures on specific topics for various Papers, including Paper 17 (European History 1700-1890), Paper 20 (History of the Political Thought 1700-1890), Paper 21 (Empires and World History) and Paper 23 (World History since 1900)
Other Professional Activities
She convenes the Wolfson College Humanities Society during term-time.
Key Publications
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Books
- Writing History in the Third Republic. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 2010.
- Reconstructing the Middle Ages. Gaston Paris and the Development of Nineteenth-century Medievalism. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 2008.
- In Preparation: Transatlantic Exchanges: Positivism and the Intellectual History of the Brazilian Empire.
Edited Books
- Historicising the French Revolution (co-editor with Tim Blanning et al). Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 2008.
Edited Special Journal Issue
- Intellectual Networks and Exchanges: In Theory and In Practice (forthcoming, Journal of the History of European Ideas, 2012).
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- ‘Reading Comte across the Atlantic: intellectual exchanges between France and Brazil and the question of slavery’, forthcoming, Journal of the History of European Ideas, Special Issue, Intellectual Networks and Exchanges: In Theory and In Practice, 2012.
- ‘The Strange Nationalism of Hippolyte Taine’, forthcoming, in B. Sudlow (ed). Nationalisms, National Identities and Nationhoods, Transaction, 2012.
- ‘Politicizing National Literature: the Scholarly Debate around La Chanson de Roland in the Nineteenth Century,’ Historical Research, February 2011.
- ‘Historicising the French Revolution and its aftermath: the case of Ernest Lavisse,’ in Historicising the French Revolution, 2008.
- ‘The Early Days of Romania and the Progress of Romance Philology in France, in S. Ridyard (ed), Interpreting the Middle Ages. Essays on Medievalism. Sewanee, 2005.
Encyclopaedia Entries
- “Positivism,” in N. Salkind (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Research design. Thousand Oakes, Sage Publishing, 2010.
Other Publications
She has published a few dozen book reviews for French History, Rethinking History, the Canadian Journal of History, Nineteenth-century French History, The Historical Journal, amongst others.