Dr. Diego Lucci

Lecturer, American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

Diego Lucci (Naples, Italy, 1977) is Assistant Professor of European Intellectual History and Philosophy at the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG), where he started to work in 2006. Prior to his appointment at AUBG, he taught at the University of Naples “Federico II”, where he received his Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2004, and at Boston University, where he worked as a Research Fellow in 2004 and as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 2005-06. In 2007 he also worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri – St. Louis.  He has lectured and done research at a number of institutions in Europe and the United States, including Villanova University, the University of Iceland, University College London, the British Library, the State Central Archive in Prague, the University of Bologna, the University of Parma, and the Italian Institute for European Studies.

Dr. Lucci’s research activities are mainly, but not exclusively, related to European Intellectual History, with special focus on religious issues and on European views of other cultures. He is the author of the book Scripture and Deism: The Biblical Criticism of the Eighteenth-Century British Deists (2008) and the co-editor of the volume La memoria del male (The Memory of Evil, 2006), concerning twentieth-century genocides. He has published a number of articles in accredited academic journals. He is also the co-editor of the Italian Enlightenment thinker Luigi Castiglioni’s Memoirs, which will appear in 2008.

His most recent writings are two articles on eighteenth-century British deism: “Judaism and Natural Religion in the Philosophy of William Wollaston,” recently published by the British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and “Judaism and the Jews in the British Deists’ Attacks on Revealed Religion,” submitted to Hebraic Political Studies.

He is currently working on two articles, concerning respectively the views of Islam in early modern English religious thought, and recent historiographical perspectives on the Enlightenment. He is also planning a volume in English on Enlightenment views of the others, a project that he will undertake in the next few years. He will hence teach courses and deliver papers on topics related to this theme in order to share the results of his ongoing research with students and colleagues.

Contact Diego Lucci at: dlucci@aubg.bg