Education

.1996: Degree in "Letters and Philosophy" with a classical focus, obtained at the University of Genoa. Vote: 110/110 cum laude.

2000: Two-year specialisation diploma in "Archivistics, Latin palaeography and diplomatics", obtained at the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities - State Archives of Genoa.

2000: Qualification diploma for teaching literary subjects, Latin and Greek in secondary schools and high schools, obtained by competitive examination.

2003: PhD in "Greek and Latin Philology", obtained at the University of Genoa.

Academic career and teaching activities

Academic career

On 19 October 2018, he obtained the National Scientific Appointment as First-Band Professor for the field of Medieval and Humanistic Latin Literature (L-FIL-LET/08)

On 5 April 2018 he obtained the National Scientific Appointment as First-Band Professor for the field of Latin Language and Literature (L-FIL-LET/04).

Since 1 July 2016 she has been Associate Professor of Latin Language and Literature (L-FIL-LET/04) at the Dept. of Humanities of the University of Trento.

From 2013 to June 2016 she was Aggregate Professor of Latin Language and Literature (L-FIL-LET/04) at the Dept. of Humanities of the University of Trento.

On 7 January 2014 she was awarded the National Scientific Appointment as Second-Band Professor for the field of Medieval and Humanistic Latin Literature (L-FIL-LET/08)

On 23 December 2013 she was awarded the National Scientific Appointment as Second-Band Professor for the field of Latin Language and Literature (L-FIL-LET/04).

From 1 April 2008 to 2013 she was a Researcher on permanent contract in the field of Latin Language and Literature (L-FIL-LET/04) at the same Department, where she was confirmed in tenure in November 2011.

 

Teaching activities

At the University of Trento:

Since academic year 2018-2019: holder of the courses of Latin Literature (LT), History of Latin Theatre (LT), Latin Philology (LM)

Academic year 2017-2018: holder of Latin Literature (LT), Latin Literature (LM) and Latin Philology (LM) courses

a.y. 2016-2017: holder of Latin Literature (LT), Latin Philology (LM) and Latin Translation Laboratory courses

Academic year 2015-2016: holder of the courses in Latin Literature (LT) and Latin Philology (LM)

2015: lecturer for the TFA in Didactics of Latin Literature and Language (class A051).

Academic year 2014-2015: holder of courses in Latin Philology (LM), Latin Literature I and II (LT), History of the Latin language (LT).

Academic year 2009-2010 / 2010-2013: holder of the courses of Latin Philology (LM) and History of the Latin language (LT).

Academic year 2012-2013 to date: member of the Teaching Board of the Doctoral School in "Le forme del testo" (formerly "Studi umanistici") at the University of Trento, curriculum "Testi greci e latini".

In the academic year 2013-2014: lecturer for the Percorso Abilitante Speciale (PAS) in Didactics of Latin Literature and Language (class A051).

Academic year 2012-2013: lecturer for the Active Formative Apprenticeship (TFA) in Didactics of Italian Literature and Language (classes A043, A050, A051)

In the academic years 2007-2008 and 2008-2009: holder of the courses in Latin Literature (LT) and Latin Philology (LS).

At the University of Genoa:

04.2006-05.2006: Teaching support for the Course in Latin Literature at the University of Genoa.

Academic year 2002-2003 to date: Activity as lecturer for the subjects "Theatre and dramaturgy of Antiquity" and "Greek and Latin theatre traditions".

At the Società per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino (S.I.S.M.E.L.) - Florence:

06.2011: Teaching activity at the "Postgraduate specialisation course in medieval Latin philology and literature". Lecture topic: "La tradizione favolistica latina nella Disciplina clericalis di Pietro Alfonsi".

At the Province of Trento - Centre for Continuing Education and Professional Update of Teachers (Rovereto):

02.2019-05.2019: Organisation and teaching activities in the Teacher Training Course "Latin and Europe".

10.2011-11.2011: Teaching activity in the "Training course for trainers in the Italian language". Topic of the lessons: "Italian in comparison with the classical languages".

Institutional assignments:

from March 2020: Delegate of the Department of Humanities and Philosophy for Orientation.

from 17 April 2019: Member of the Executive Committee of the International Doctoral School "Forms of Cultural Exchange".

from 1 October 2018 to 12 April 2019: Coordinator of the Humanities Teaching Area

since 1 July 2017: Deputy Coordinator of the Doctoral School of the University of Trento "The Forms of the Text".

2017 -: Head of international trilateral agreement between University of Trento - Department of Humanities and Philosophy / International Society for the Study of the Latin Middle Ages (S.I.S.ME.L., Florence) and The Charles Singleton Centre - Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MA)

2017 -: Responsible for bilateral international agreement between University of Trento - Department of Humanities and Philosophy and Swarthmore College (Philadelphia, PA)

2016 -: Responsible for framework agreement for research activities, excellence training, publishing and dissemination of scientific knowledge in the field of medieval Latin studies between the University of Trento - Department of Humanities and Philosophy and the International Society for the Study of the Latin Middle Ages (S.I.S.ME.L.)

2016 -: Responsible for the Erasmus agreement with the University of Murcia (teaching Latin Literature and Latin Philology).

2015 -: Member of the Timetable Commission, responsible for the courses of study "Historical and philological-literary studies" and "Philology and text criticism".

2015 -: Responsible for the TFA for competition class A051.

2014 -: Head of Erasmus agreement with the University of Besancon (Classical disciplines).

11.2014: Member of the Evaluation Commission of the University of Trento for access to the 2015 TFA for competition class A051.

10.2014: Member of the Evaluation Committee of the University of Trento for the final examination of the Percorso Abilitante Speciale (PAS) for competition class A051.

06.2014: Responsible for the curriculum "Greek and Latin texts" of the Doctoral School "The forms of the text" of the Dept. of Humanities and Philosophy of the University of Trento.

05.2014: Responsible for the fields of Antiquistics and Mediolatinistics within the framework of the Scientific Productivity Evaluation 2009-2013.

10.2013: Member of the Commission for the evaluation of the minimum requirements for admission to the Three-year Degree Course in "Historical and Philological-Literary Studies".

06.2013: Member of the Evaluation Commission of the University of Trento for the final examination of the TFA for the competition class A051.

2012-2013: Member of the Timetable Commission, responsible for the study courses "Historical and philological-literary studies" and "Philology and text criticism".

09.2012-10.2012: Member of the Assessment Commission of the University of Trento for access to the 2013 Tirocinio Formativo Attivo (TFA) for competition class A-051 (Literary subjects and Latin for secondary schools).

07.2011: Member of the Evaluation Committee for the "Bernardo Clesio" Merit Board of the University of Trento for the classical field.

06.2009-06.2013: Member of the "Study Trips" Commission of the Dept. of Literature and Philosophy of the University of Trento.

Conferences and lectures

.Partecipazione in qualità di relatrice ai seguenti seminari, congressi e incontri di studio internazionali e nazionali:

  • Age! Derecho, socieda y cultura en la comedia de Plauto”, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Madrid, 14-16 Decembre 2022). Titolo della relazione: “Miles gloriosus. Riflessi della società e della cultura romana attorno al 200 a.C.” (invited conference).
  • Ciclo di incontri: “Gli animali nel mondo antico”, AICC - Associazione Italiana di Cultura Classica, Delegazione della Svizzera italiana (Mendrisio, 10.11.2022). Titolo della conferenza: “Gli animali della favola antica” (invited conference).
  • “Il femminile nel Medioevo", Congresso di studi in ricordo di Ferruccio Bertini, SISMEL - Società Internazionale per il Medioevo latino (Firenze, 30 settembre 2022). Titolo della relazione: “Regine e principesse nell'Asinarius”.
  • "Et in cothurnis prodit Aesopus nouis. On the interaction between ancient fable and literary genres". International Conference, University of Graz (Graz, September 23-25, 2021). Titolo della relazione: “Das Theater von Phaedrus” (invited conference).
  • “Teatro y propaganda. Formas de expresion en el drama griego y la tradicion clasica". Congreso Internacional GRATUV 2022, Universidad de Valencia, Departement de Filologia clasica (Valencia, 2 y 3 de mayo, 2022). Titolo della relazione: “El teatro ‘propagandístico’ de Terencio” (invited conference).
  • “Un art plus ke li deable: Marie de France, poétesse et fabuliste”, Colloque internationale, Université Paris-Est Créteil (Paris, 18-19 novembre 2021). Titolo della relazione: “La tradizione del Romulus e le favole di Maria di Francia” (invited conference).
  • “La condizione femminile nel teatro antico”, Congresso internazionale Istituto nazionale del Dramma Antico/Rivista "Dioniso" 2021 (Siracusa, 18-19 ottobre 2021). Titolo della relazione: “Immagini di donna in Terenzio e Rosvita” (invited conference).
  • “Otros circuitos teatrales en el siglo XXI”, Congreso Internacional, Universidad Complutense (Madrid, 18-20 ottobre 2021). Titolo della relazione: “Fedra de Séneca: la escena 2016-2017".
  • Giornata di studi Codex "Manoscritti in Toscana: temi e testimoni" (Firenze, 14 novembre 2019). Titolo della relazione: "I manoscritti toscani del favolista latino Aviano" (invited conference).
  • 23° Congresso della "Societé Internationale Renardienne" (Praha, 11-14 luglio 2019). Titolo della relazione: "Il re Leone da Fedro a La Fontaine (e Walt Disney)".
  • Internationale Tagung "Fabel und Predigt im Mittelalter und fruhen Neuzeit" (Erlangen, Friedrich Alexander Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, 15-16 Mai 2019). Titolo dell'intervento nel “Workshop zur Tagung”: “I manoscritti favolistici latini” (invited conference).
  • Seminario presso l'Universidad de Granada, Facultad de Leteras, Dep. de Filologia latina (28 marzo 2019). Titolo della relazione: "Il Re Leone da Fedro a Walt Disney" (invited conference).
  • Seminario presso l'Universidad de Murcia, Facultad de Letras, Dep. de Filologia clasica (26 marzo 2019). Titolo della relazione: "La favola latina nella Spagna medievale" (invited conference).
  • Convegno "Mito, favola, fiaba. Testimonianze linguistiche, tradizioni culturali, cornici pedagogiche" (Enna, Università Kore, 7-8 novmbre 2018). Titolo della relazione: "Animali sui banchi di scuola: le favole dello pseudo-Dositeo" (invited conference).
  • Congresso internazionale "CLASTEA IV. Clàsicos en scena ayer y hoy" (Santiago de Compostela, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 25-27 ottobre 2018). Titolo della relazione: "Ovidio a Broadway" (invited conference).
  • Congresso internazionale "La Fontaine et la culture européenne. Au carrefour des Fables" (Paris, Université Sorbonne, Paris IV, 4-6 ottobre 2018). Titolo della relazione: "Avianus et La Fontaine".
  • 22° Congresso della "Societé Internationale Renardienne" (Reading, University of Reading, 13-16 luglio 2017). Titolo della relazione: "Animali parlanti nelle favole di Fedro".
  • Seminario internazionale "Itinérances de la fable (II). Transmissions, transferts et transactions. Séminaire de l’équipe Fabula numerica du Labex Obvil (Paris, Université Sorbonne, Paris IV, 4 maggio 2016). Titolo della relazione: "Nouvelle approches des Fables de Phèdre (Ier siècle)" (invited conference).
  • Seminario internazionale "Fable Style" (American Academy in Rome, 21 aprile 2016). Titolo della relazione "I rifacimenti mediolatini di Fedro" (invited conference).
  • Seminario per la Scuola di Dottorato in "Letterature e Culture classiche e moderne" della Scuola di Scienze Umanistiche dell'Università di Genova (Genova, 12 aprile 2016). Titolo del seminario "Imparare il greco e il latino nel IV secolo: gli Hermeneumata dello pseudo-Dositeo" (invited conference).
  • 21° Congresso della "Societé Internationale Renardienne" (Zuerich, 15-20 luglio 2015). Titolo della relazione: "Nunc ergo incipiam fabulas scribere Aesopias: le favole degli Hermeneumata pseudo-Dositheana".
  • VII Simposium Ciceronianum (Arpino, 8 maggio 2015). Titolo della relazione: "I 'Sinonimi di Cicerone'. Storia di una falsa attribuzione" (invited conference).
  • Convegno Internazionale "Ut pictura poesis: intersezioni di arte e letteratura" (Trento, 15-17 ottobre 2014). Titolo della relazione: "Ut poesis pictura? Il Prudenzio illustrato del ms. Leidensis Vossianus 8° 15" (invited conference).
  • 16° Convegno annuale della Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino "La letteratura d'intrattenimento nel Medioevo latino" (Firenze, 22 marzo 2013). Titolo della relazione: “La parodia degli autori tardoantichi nell’Ecbasis captivi” (invited conference).
  • Seminario Internazionale "Sparsa colligere et integrare lacerata: centoni, pastiches e la tradizione greco-latina del reimpiego testuale" (Trento, 21-22 marzo 2013). Titolo della relazione: "Non simplo stamine texam: citazioni virgiliane nell’ “Ecbasis cuiusdam captivi per tropologiam" (invited conference).
  • 19° Congresso della "Societé Internationale Renardienne" (Aix-en-Provence, 21-24 settembre 2011). Titolo della relazione: "La rappresentazione del corpo animale nelle illustrazioni delle favole fedriane e avianee dell’XI secolo”.
  • 6° Convegno dell'Internationales Mittellateiner Kommitee "Auctor et auctoritas in Latinis Medii Aevi litteris" (Napoli - Benevento, 10-14 novembre 2010). Titolo della relazione: "L’auctoritas plautina nelle “Derivationes” di Osberno di Gloucester".
  • Seminario Internazionale Villa Vigoni "Expertise des textes agiographiques mérovingens dans leurs plus anciennes versions manuscrites conservées" (Loveno di Menaggio, 11-14 aprile 2010). Titolo della relazione: "La Passio Eulaliae Emeritensis (BHL 2700)”.
  • 5° Congresso Internacional de Latim Medieval Hispanico (Barcelona, 7-10 septiembre 2009). Titolo della relazione: "Fonti tardoantiche (e classiche?) dei carmi di Valerio del Bierzo".
  • Traduzione e divulgazione: le prime versioni del "Principe" in età moderna (Genova, 30 settembre 2008). Titolo della relazione: "La traduzione latina di Silvestro Tegli (1560)” (invited conference).
  • 28° Congresso Internazionale di Studi Umanistici Piceni (Sassoferrato [AN], 4-7 luglio 2007). Titolo della relazione: "La tradizione di Nevio comico attraverso il Cornu copiae di Niccolò Perotti" (invited conference).
  • 5° Convegno dell'Internationales Mittellateiner Kommitee "Interpreting Latin Texts in the Middle Ages" (Toronto, 1st-6th August 2006). Titolo della relazione: "La riscrittura come forma di interpretazione: il caso delle rielaborazioni mediolatine di Aviano".
  • 4° Congresso Internacional de Latim Medieval Hispanico (Lisboa, 12-15 outubro 2005). Titolo della relazione: "Eugenio di Toledo e l’Ecbasis captivi".
Other work

.Direction of series:

Co-director with Paolo Gatti of the international series "FABULA. Fables from Antiquity to Modern Times', published by SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo - Florence.

Planning of conferences, conventions, seminars:

Internatioal conference: “Fable between East and West” (Trento, 11-13 October 2022).

International conference "Seneca. Il futuro della scena" (Trento, 29 November - 1 December 2021).

International congress "Poison. Knowledge, uses and practices" (Trento, 10-12 December 2019).

International conference "Talking animals II. Literature, theatre, drawings" (Trento, 17-18 April 2018).

International conference "Talking animals. Literature, theatre, song" (Trento, 5-6 April 2016)

International Seminar "Greek and Latin Texts in Fragments: Methods and Perspectives" (Trento, 13-14 October 2015)

International Study Conference "Phaedrus and the Latin Fable between Antiquity and the Middle Ages" (Trent, 22-23 October 2013)

Study Conference "Groups, Crowds, People on Stage" (Rovereto-Trento, 3-4 October 2011)

 

Third mission activities:

Delegate of CUSL (Consulta Universitaria di Studi Latini) for the Province of Trento for "Latin Certification" (since 2018).

Planning and coordination of the cycle of meetings "Teatro sotterraneo" on the theme "Il soldato fanfarone", in collaboration with the Centro Culturale Santa Chiara (Trento, Spazio Archeologico Romano del SAS, November 2019 - March 2020).

Planning and coordination of the meeting with Nuccio Ordine, "Men are not islands. I Classici e l solidarietà umana" (Rovereto, Biblioteca Civica Tartarotti, 28 May 2019).

Planning and coordination of the teacher training course "Latin and Europe", in collaboration with IPRASE (Trento-Rovereto, February-May 2019).

Planning and coordination of the series of meetings "Animali parlanti" (Genoa, Fondazione per la Cultura Palazzo Ducale, January-February 2019).

Planning and coordination of the cycle of meetings "Teatro sotterraneo" on the theme "Sosia a teatro", in collaboration with the Centro Culturale Santa Chiara (Trento, Spazio Archeologico Romano del SAS, November 2018-April 2019).

Planning and coordination of the meeting with Franco Cardini, "The Middle Ages at the roots of European culture" (Rovereto, Biblioteca Civica G. Tartarotti, 22 October 2018).

Festival "In una notte d'estate". 20th edition: "Paths and metamorphoses of myth". Introduction to the play "Aulularia" by Plautus, adapted by Mario Marchi and directed by Daniela Ardini (Genoa,11-12 July 2017) (sub praelo).

Planning and coordination of the initiative "Two days with Claudio Magris": theatrical performance based on 'Lei dunque capirà' by C. Magris, with E. Pozzi (Trento, Centro Santa Chiara, Teatro Cuminetti, 23 January 2017); round table discussion 'In limine', with the participation of C. Magris (Trento, Dept. of Literature and Philosophy, 24 January 2017)

Planning and coordination of the series of meetings 'Historians and power' (Trento, Dept. of Letters and Philosophy, 6 and 23 November 2016), with the participation of Luciano Canfora, Agostini Paravicini Bagliani and Michel Pastoureau

Planning and coordination of the meeting "Due giorni al tempo di Augusto: la storia, la favola", with the participation of Luciano Canfora and Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (Trento, Dip. di Lettere e Filosofia, 29-30 April 2015)

 

Exhibition and exhibition organisation:

Exhibition "Lupus in tabula: iconographic evolution of fairy tales from the 14th to the 19th century", curated by Paola Pallottino (Rovereto, Biblioteca Civica "G. Tartarotti", 22 October - 8 November 2013) - in collaboration with the Municipality of Rovereto, Biblioteca Civica G. Tartarotti'.

 

Participation in scientific committees:

2022: Member of the scientific committee of the Congreso internacional Reescrituras, lenguajes y públicos de las artes escénicas en el siglo XXI (Madrid, Universidad Autonoma, 3-5 octubre 2022).

 

Participation in research commissions:

Since 2014: Member of the Research Commission of the "Consulta Universitaria di Studi Latini".

 

Participation in assessment registers:

2016: Member of the ANVUR Register of Auditors

Since 2015: Expert of the European Commission

Since 2013: Member of the Register of Auditors MIUR