BORN: San Bonifacio (Verona, Italy), 6-1-1968.
PRESENT EMPLOYMENT: Associate Professor in Slavic Studies (Russian Literature) at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Dipartimento LILEC), via Cartoleria 5, 40124, Bologna, tel. 051-217179, fax 051-264722, mobile phone 0039 3387554901, e-mail alessandro.niero@unibo.it [mailto:alessandro.niero@unibo.it]
EDUCATION AND CAREER:
February 1993: graduated at Verona University in Russian Literature with a degree in Foreign Languages and Literature (thesis entitled «Translational problems in the shortstory “X” by Evgenij Zamjatin»)
1995-1999: teaching translation from Russian into Italian at the International Seminar on Russian Language and Culture in Bergamo (Italy).
1999: awarded Ph.D. in Comparative Slavic Literatures at the University of Milan with a dissertation entitled Iosif Brodskij as a poet-translator.
May 2000: Junior Lecturer in Slavic Studies.
2000-2002: appointed Junior Lecturer in Slavic Studies at Bologna University (High School for Interpreters and Translators in Forlì). Activity included courses on various topics related to Russian literature.
2003-2011: appointed Junior Lecturer in Slavic Studies at Bologna University, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature. Activity included courses on various topics related to Russian literature and seminars on literary translation from Russian into Italian.
January 2011: Associate Professor in Slavic Studies.
April 2011-2020: Associate Professor in Slavic Studies at Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature (Bologna University). Activity included courses on various topics related to Russian literature and seminars on literary translation from Russian into Italian.
February 2014: qualified (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) to function as a Full Professor of Slavic Studies.
January 2020: qualified (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) to function as a Full Professor of Slavic Studies.
MAIN RESEARCH THEMES:
1.Russian literature of XX century (in particular Iosif Brodskij as a translator and as a poet).
2.Translation studies (in particular poetry translation).
3.Reception of Russian literature in Italy and viceversa.
4.The “superfluous man” as a literary type in Russian literature of the XIX century.
5. Jurij Lotman.
PAPER DELIVERD AT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS OR CONFERENCES:
Saint Petersburg (1996, 2010), Udine (Italy, 1997), Poreč (Croatia, 1998), Krakow (1998), Tartu (Estonia, 1999, 2002), Lovran (Croatia, 1999), Venezia (2000, 2011), Sassari (Italy, 2001), Warsaw (2001), Forlì (Italy, 2001), Pescara (Italy, 2003), Moscow (2004, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018), Bologna (2004, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017), Rio de Janeiro (2005), Lecce (Italy, 2005), Roma (2009, 2011), Torrimpietra (Italy, 2010), Vietri (Italy, 2010), Padova (2011), Macerata (Italy, 2014), Parma (Italy, 2014), Madrid (2015), Siena (Italy, 2017), Bruxelles (2018), Pisa (Italy, 2019).
BOARDS OF ACADEMIC JOURNALS:
2007-2011: member of the Editorial Board of the journal «Esamizdat. Rivista di Culture dei Paesi Slavi».
2011-2017: member of the Editorial Board of the journal «Comunicare Letteratura».
2018–: member of the Editorial Board of the journal «Europa Orientalis».
2019–: member of the Scientific Board of the journal «L’Ospite Ingrato. Rivista online del Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca Franco Fortini».
2019–: member of the Editorial Board of the journal «Vestnik literaturnogo institura imeni A.M. Gor´kogo».
BOARDS OF ACADEMIC INSTUTUTION:
2008–: member of the DRIST (Dottorato di Ricerca in Scienze della Traduzione, Bologna University), later D.E.S.E. (Doctorat d’Études Supérieures Européennes, Bologna University), now Dottorato LILEC (Bologna University).
2011–: member of the scientific board of the CSAR (Centro Studi sulle Arti delle Russia, Ca’ Foscari University in Venice).
JURIES OF TRANSLATION AND POETIC PRIZES
2012–: member of the jury of «Premio LILEC per la Traduzione Poetica».
2014-2016: member of the jury of «Premio Bella Achmadulina per la poesia russa e italiana».
2017–: member of the jury of «Premio Benno Geiger per la traduzione poetica».
2018: member of the jury of «»Premio Città di Trento per la Poesia e la Traduzione Poetica»
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AWARDS
1998: best thesis (ex aequo) of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature of Verona University for the academic years 1991-92, 1992-93, 1993-94.
2006: award «Premio Nazionale per la Traduzione» of MIBACT (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali e per il Turismo).
2008: international award «Premio “Lerici Pea Mosca”» for the translation and dissemination of contemporary Russian poetry in Italy.
2012: international award «Čitaj Rossiju / Read Russia», for the translation of Russian poetry abroad.
2017: national award «Premio Atelier Vent’anni di Poesia» for translation of poetry.
OTHER ROLES
2013–: editor of the series of contemporary Russian poets «Russia Poetica» («Passigli» Publisher, Florence).
2014–: member of the directive of the Centro di Poesia Contemporanea (Bologna University).
