Davide Pilloni

Davide Pilloni is a doctoral student of the 41st cycle of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures: Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Bologna, where he studies Russian electronic literature (in russian seteratura) and the Russian web-environment of the 90s. His doctoral research explores Russian texts published directly on the web and how they differ from traditional printed literature.

He earned a MA in Foreign European, American and Postcolonial Languages and Literatures from Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, where he graduated with a dissertation on the military, scientific and colonial role of the city of Verny in the Russian Imperial context of the second half of the XIX century, and a BA in Modern Languages and Cultures from University of Genoa, where he graduated with a dissertation on the comparison between the perception of the Caucasus in Aleksandr Pushkin’s prose and verse production.

In 2022 and 2023 he received two scholarships to undertake teaching internship in Italian as a foreign language in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) and Almaty (Kazakhstan) and in 2025 he obtained the CEDILS certification for teaching Italian to non-native speakers.