Catherine Valenti

Catherine Valenti is a Lecturer in Contemporary History at the Department of History, Heritage, Literature, History (PLH) of the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès. Her research focuses on

• cultural and social history of intellectual elites
• 19th-20th century archaeology history
• reception of Antiquity in political ideologies

Recent publications analyze

• Antiquity's role in far-right ideology
• fictional representations of classical heritage
• institutional academic networks

with particular attention to French-Greek relations.

Notable contributions include

• co-edited proceedings on antiquity reception
• books on literary prizes and criminal history
• articles in Anabases and La vie des idées