Biography 个人简介
Fabio De Leonardis holds a BA+MA in Foreign Languages and Literatures (English, Russian, French) and a PhD in Theory of Language and Sciences of Signs from the University of Bari (Italy) and an MA in Russian and Eurasian Studies from the European University at St. Petersburg (Russia). In the spring of 2014 he was Wayne Vucinich Fellow at the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Stanford University (USA). His research interests can be regrouped around three axis: one is political discourse analysis; the second one is the symbolic realm of nationalism, especially in its interaction with post-colonial contexts, literature and the arts in general; the third one are Russian and Eurasian studies. He is a member of the editorial staff of the online scientific journal Nazioni e regioni. Studi e ricerche sulla comunità immaginata [Nations and Regions. Studies and Researches on Imagined Community], which he co-founded in 2012 and co-edited until December 2021. Besides researching, he has also carried out an intensive translation activity. His most recent publications are Nation-building and Personality Cult in Turkmenistan: The Türkmenbaşy Phenomenon, New York-Abingdon, Routledge, 2018; “Memory and Nation-Building in Georgia”, in Rico Isaacs – Abel Polese (eds.), Nation-Building and Identity in the Post-Soviet Space. New Tools and Approaches, New York-Abingdon, Routledge, 2016, pp. 25-38.
