Isabelle Richet is Professor Emeritus at Universite¿ Paris Diderot- Paris 7. She received a PhD in History from the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. In recent years, her research has focused on exile and expatriation, especially on British and American expatriates in Italy. She has published several articles in Italian and English on Anglo-American expatriates and the Mussolini regime and has contributed to the volume Rethinking Antifascism. History, Memory and Politics, 1922 to the Present, edited by Hugo Garcia et al. (2016).