Dr Alessandro de Arcangelis

BIOGRAPHY

Dr Alessandro de Arcangelis is a Lecturer in Intellectual History at University College, London, with a particular focus on transnational encounters, cross-cultural exchanges, and Europe’s global entanglements. His research is especially concerned with the study of modern historical imaginations, and investigates the emergence, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of new ways of conceptualising the past, interpreting the present, and imagining the future, in connection with broader experiences of social and political change, revolutionary upheavals, and mechanisms of global integration. He is especially interested in debates on philosophy of history, the history of historiography, as well as the links between temporal concepts and the evolution of modern political ideas.