Rate My Professor Mark Seymour

Seymour's major publications include his first book, Debating Divorce in Italy: Marriage and the Making of Modern Italians, 1860-1974 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), which analyzes the protracted struggle to reform indissoluble marriage and reveals traditional societal fault-lines from novel viewpoints. His monograph Emotional Arenas: Life, Love, and Death in 1870s Italy (Oxford University Press, 2020), part of the 'Emotions in History' series, uses a sensational Roman murder trial to examine how emotions were experienced, expressed, and shaped after unification. He co-edited the pioneering collection From Sodomy Laws to Same-Sex Marriage: International Perspectives Since 1789 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) with Sean Brady, offering historical insights into shifts in attitudes toward same-sex relationships. Other key contributions feature chapters on global happiness in The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World (2023), royal tours in Royals on Tour (2018), same-sex unions in Italy, and forthcoming works on Italian marriage law from 1770 to 2025 and masculinity from 1770 to 1970. Seymour served as co-editor of the journal Modern Italy from 2015 to 2020 and is on the editorial boards of Modern Italy, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Italia Contemporanea, and Memoria e Ricerca. His work has significantly influenced understandings of personal-political dynamics in modern Italy and beyond.