Stephen Gundle (Leicester, England, November 23, 1956), is a British cultural historian and film scholar.
In 1993, he took up a post at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he rose to become Professor of Italian Cultural History.
He was principal investigator on large AHRC-backed research projects into the cult of personality of the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini[6] and into the practices of Italian film producers in the postwar decades.
[9] He has held several visiting professorships in France including at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (SciencesPo).
[11] In 2004 he was made an Ufficiale dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana (Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic).