Enzo Traverso

Enzo Traverso is a leading historian of modern and contemporary Europe. His research focuses on the intellectual history and the political ideas of the twentieth century. He is the author of several books, including The End of Jewish Modernity, Fire and Blood: The European Civil War, Left-Wing Melancholia, The New Faces of Fascism, Singular Pasts: The "I" in Historiography, and Revolution: An Intellectual History, which have been translated into many languages. He regularly writes for Jacobin in the United States, Il Manifesto in Italy, and French and Spanish-language magazines. He taught history and political theory in France for almost twenty years. Since 2013, he teaches at Cornell University. He has also taught as visiting professor in several countries of Europe and Latin America.