Francesca Zantedeschi
Visiting Scholar

Francesca Zantedeschi is a cultural historian specializing in the history of national movements in Europe, the history of the humanities from the nineteenth century onwards, and national stereotyping. She has held a postdoctoral research grant from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Amsterdam (ARTES).

At the Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam, she is completing the project ETHNOSCHISM, which examines the North–South divide in Europe between 1914 and 1929 and explores how ethnotypes shaped knowledge production and political relations. As part of this project, she is preparing the volume National Characters in the Roaring 1920s (co-edited with Joep Leerssen) and an article on Thomas Mann’s Pariser Rechenschaft (1926), which investigates Mann’s reflections on French and German cultural perceptions in the tense postwar years, addressing themes of reconciliation, cultural anxiety, and the challenges of rebuilding trust in a divided Europe.