Role
Professor at the University of Naples L'Orientale.
Bio
A scholar of contemporary Turkey, she has taught Turkish Language and Literature at the University of Naples "L'Orientale" in the undergraduate and graduate programs since 2007 and collaborates as a political analyst with various national and international publications. She earned her PhD in Women's History and Gender Identity in 2008 with a thesis on Turkish labor migration to West Germany (1961-1984).
Previously, she studied in Berlin (Humboldt University, 2005), Istanbul ( Bilgi University , Master in Cultural Studies, 2003), Naples (Bachelor in Political Science, Mediterranean Africa and the Middle East, 2002), and Paris (Erasmus, Inalco, 1999). She was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin and the Türkei-Europa-Zentrum (TEZ ) in Hamburg.
Lea Nocera is a contemporary Turkologist. She is among the first in Italy to combine area-specific expertise—in-depth knowledge of the country, its history, society, and culture, and advanced language skills—with a focus on contemporary phenomena and the analysis of political processes.
Her research on contemporary Turkey focuses on social and cultural history; gender studies, urban studies, and social mobilization. In particular, both academically and professionally, she has focused on civil society and minority rights; she has studied processes of urban transformation in Istanbul. She has extensively studied Turkish migration to Europe.
She is currently working on a research project on cultural relations between Turkey and Europe in the post-war period (project selected under the ERC Starting Grants 2015).
He regularly works to promote the dissemination of knowledge about Turkish politics and society in Italy.
In 2013 he organized the 1st Conference of Italian Turkology.