Malice, Teresa

Università di Bielefeld

Dr. Teresa Malice is research assistant (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the chair of contemporary history at Bielefeld University. She is currently working on a diaristic history of gender, community and violence in fascist societies, exploring dozens of women's diaries written in Germany, Italy, and Austria between the 1920s and the 1950s (working title: "Gender, Community and Violence in Fascist Societies. A Diaristic History (1922-1950)". There, she explores daily forms of violence against both Jewish and non-Jewish women, as well as mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion, and societal responses towards them, starting from subjective experiences. She is affiliated with the "Balzan Bystanding Project" at Bielefeld University. In Spring 2021, she has been Senior Fellow at the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. She received her PhD in 2019 at the University of Bologna, in cotutelle with Bielefeld University, with a dissertation on practices of town twinning between Italian "red" cities and the German Democratic Republic between the 1960s and 1970s. Her research appeared as a book in 2023 ("Transnational Imaginations of Socialism. Town Twinning and Local Government in "Red" Italy and the GDR", De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2023). She also has published on women and gender relations within communism, in Italy and in the Emilia-Romagna region. Teresa has studied History at the University of Bologna (2008-2013) and at the Humboldt University in Berlin (2012). In the past few years, she has been visiting fellow at Aarhus University, Denmark (2018) and start-up fellow at the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (2015). Between 2013 and 2020 she has worked as a researcher and public historian at the Historical Institute for the Study of Resistance and Contemporary History in Parma, Italy (ISREC Parma), and has cooperated with the Gramsci Foundation in Bologna.