Paola Rosa Filisetti

• 2021–2024. PhD Candidate in Classical Philology, Joint Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in “Forms of Cultural Exchange”, University of Trento / Universität Augsburg; Thesis Project: The Stultifera Navis by Jakob Locher (1497): critical edition, translation, commentary. Supervisor: Prof. Sandro La Barbera
• 2021. MA in Modern Philology, summa cum laude, University of Trento
• 2019. BA in Literary Studies and Art History, summa cum laude, Pavia University

• 2021-: Academic tutor for students of Latin at University of Trento
• 2017-18: Academic tutor for students of Italian Linguistics at Pavia University
• 2015-16: Teacher of English as a second language (A1-B1), Bossico Library

– 2025: Fellow scholar at Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae, KU Leuven (1 month)

– 2024: Visiting PhD scholar at University of Zurich, Seminar für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie der Antike, des Mittelaters und der Neuzeit (1 month)

– 2023-2024: Fellow scholar at Ludwig-Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies and Klassische Philologie Universität Innsbruck (11 months, co-supervisor prof. Florian Schaffenrath): https://neolatin.lbg.ac.at/institut/team-profile/ 

– 2023: Visiting PhD scholar at University of Basel, Departement Altertumswissenschaften (2 months, tutor prof. Petra Schierl)

– 2022-23: Visiting PhD scholar at University of Augsburg, Philologisch-Historische Fakultät (6 months, co-supervisor prof. Franz Fromholzer)

– 2019: Erasmus+ student at Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich (5 months, tutor prof. Daniel Mollenhauer)

Renaissance Society of America (RSA)

Society for Classical Studies (SCS)

2023. Research fellowship, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin studies, Innsbruck (2 months)

2023. Erasmus+ grant, Universität Innsbruck (Winter Semester)

2021. Ph.D. fellowship, University of Trento, (fees and maintenance, 3 years)

2019. Erasmus+ grant, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität Munich (Summer Semester)

2017. BA Scholarship, Consorzio del Bacino Imbrifero Montano dell'Oglio (BIM) (fees and maintenance)

– 03/2025. Institut für Klassische Philologie der Universität Würzburg, Congress “NeoLatina 2025 Wissen in der Frühen Neuzeit”. Würzburg, 28-29 March. Paper: “Klassische auctoritates im Dialog mit dem Narrentum in Jakob Lochers Stultifera Navis ”

– 01/2025. Society for Classical Studies (SCS), joint annual meeting, AANLS panel: “Current Research in the World of Neo-Latin Studies”. Paper: “Moralem sensum si nostro carmine sumes: The Reception of Satire in the Stultifera Navis by Jakob Locher” Philadelphia PA, January 2-5

– 06/2024. University of Innsbruck, Final Talk “The Stultifera Navis by Jakob Locher – The Reception of Satire and German Humanism”, LBI Institut für Neulateinische Studien, Innsbruck, 24 June: https://neolatin.lbg.ac.at/news/final-talk-by-paola-rosa-filisetti/

– 10/2023. University of Trento, “Baigner le présent dans le sacré. The reception of myth in literature from antiquity to modernity”, Trento, October 23-25. Co-organizer of the Graduate Conference

– 07/2023. Sapienza University of Rome, Graduate conference “Rethinking Catastrophe in Precarious Times”, Rome, July 6-7. Paper presented: “Meteore e propaganda. I mirabilia di Sebastian Brant nell'Umanesimo tedesco”

– 11/2022. University of Trento, Course of Latin language and literature held by prof. Sandro La Barbera, Trento, November 9. Paper presented: “La ricezione di Ovidio, Tristia e Epistulae ex Ponto, nella Stultifera Navis di Jakob Locher (1497)”

– 11/2022. University of Verona, Graduate conference “Testo, autore, pubblico. Forme di ricezione dall'antichità alla modernità”, Verona, November 24-26. Paper presented: “Giovenale in Germania. La ricezione delle Satire nella Stultifera Navis di Jakob Locher”

– 12/2021. Universität Bamberg, online workshop “Transfer und Transformation. Werk und überlieferungsgeschichtliche Dynamiken im Œuvre von Sebastian Brant”, December 3-4. Paper presented: “Die Rezeption der lateinisch klassischen Quellen in Jakob Lochers Stultifera Navis"