Current position
- Associate Professor (Academic discipline: L-FIL-LET/11 Contemporary Italian Literature).
Career
- 2021: National Scientific Qualification (ASN) to function as 1st level Professor in Contemporary Italian Literature.
- 2016-2019: Senior assistant professor (RTD b).
- 2012: National Scientific Qualification (ASN) to function as 2nd level Professor in Contemporary Italian Literature.
Teaching experience
- 2019- (present): Professor of Forme del testo poetico, Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (6 cfu).
- 2018- (present): Professor of Seminar of Contemporary Poetry “Officina di poesia”, second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (6 cfu).
- 2016- (present): Professor of Contemporary Italian Literature, first cycle degree programme in D.A.M.S. - Drama, Art and Music Studies (L) (12 cfu).
- 2018/2019: Adjunct Professor of Italian Twentieth-Century Poetry (LM) (1), second cycle degree programme in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (LM) (6 cfu).
- 2015/2016; 2016/2017; 2017/2018: Adjunct Professor of Metrics and Contemporary Verse Theory, second cycle degree programme in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (LM) (6 cfu).
Teaching assistance
- 2012-2018: 18 lectures (for a total of 45 lecture hours) in the Laboratory (LM) “Officina di poesia” (Prof. Niva Lorenzini).
- 2001-2014: organization and holding of 13 seminars (for a total of 250 lecture hours) for the course of Contemporary Italian Literature (L) (Prof. Niva Lorenzini).
- 2001-2016: Teaching Assistant for the courses Contemporary Italian Literature (L) and Italian Poetry of the Twentieth Century (LM) (Prof. Niva Lorenzini).
Education
- 2005: Ph.D. in Italian Studies at the University of Bologna, Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies. Dissertation title: Materiali per un commento e un’edizione critica a «IX Ecloghe» di Andrea Zanzotto; Tutor: Niva Lorenzini.
- 1998: Degree in Modern Literatures at the University of Bologna, Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies (110/110 cum laude).
Research fellowships
- 2012-2015: 4 year Research fellowship (University of Bologna, Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies). Research topic: Commento e testualità nella letteratura contemporanea.
- 2008-2010: 2 years Research fellowship (University of Bologna, Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies). Research topic: Lo spazio della scrittura. Letteratura in area veneta tra otto e novecento.
- 2005-2007: 2 years Post-Doctoral fellowship (University of Bologna, Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies).
- 2002-2003: Marco Polo Program fellowship for a six-months research period (15th October 2002-15th april 2003) at University of Oxford, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages.
- 2001-2005: 4 years Doctoral fellowship in Italian Studies (University of Bologna, Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies).
Organizational and scientific committees activities (selection)
- 2019, 7h May: International Conference Antonio Porta: nel fare poesia, Bologna, Biblioteca Comunale dell’Archiginnasio, Sala dello Stabat Mater - Aula III di via Zamboni 38 [Scientific Committee Coordinator].
- 2019, 10h April: International Conference Andrea Zanzotto e la critica: prospezioni e consuntivi, Biblioteca Comunale dell’Archiginnasio, Sala dello Stabat Mater [Scientific Committee Coordinator].
- 2015, 23th June: International Conference Per Edoardo Sanguineti. Ritratto in pubblico, Bologna, Biblioteca Comunale dell'Archiginnasio [Organizational Secretary and Scientific Committee Coordinator].
- 2016, 10th february: Conference "Come si agisce" tra parola e immagine: incontro con Nanni Balestrini, Bologna, Biblioteca Comunale dell’Archiginnasio, Sala dello Stabat Mater [Organizational Secretary].
- 2014, 10th-12th October: International Conference Andrea Zanzotto, la natura, l'idioma, Pieve di Soligo-Solighetto-Cison di Valmarino [Organizational Secretary and Scientific Committee Coordinator].
- 2013, 4th December: Conference Per Vittorio Sereni, Bologna, Biblioteca Comunale dell'Archiginnasio [Organizational Secretary].
- 2013, 27th November: Conference Zanzotto e Bologna, Bologna, Biblioteca Comunale dell'Archiginnasio [Organizational Secretary].
- 2013, 16th-17th October: International Conference Cinquant'anni del Gruppo 63. Storia, bilanci, prospettive (Bologna, Biblioteca Comunale dell'Archiginnasio – Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies) [Organizational Secretary].
- 2009, 14th-15th May: International Conference Antonio Porta: il progetto infinito, Bologna, Biblioteca Comunale dell'Archiginnasio [Organizational Secretary and Scientific Committee Member].
- 2006, 23th November: International Conference Andrea Zanzotto: un poeta nel tempo, University of Bologna, Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies [Organizational Secretary and Scientific Committee Coordinator].
- 2005, 7th October: [with S. Colangelo] International Conference Sanguineti: la parola, la scena, University of Bologna, Laboratori DMS.
Invited Speaker at international/peer-reviewd Conferences, Seminars (selection)
- 24 aprile 2019: Research Seminar (2 hours) about Andrea Zanzotto, held at the Departamento de Estudios Románicos, Franceses, Italianos y Traducción (Facultad de Filologia), Universidad Complutense di Madrid (ES).
- 24 aprile 2019: lezione (due ore) su Amelia Rosselli for the course "Poesía Italiana del Siglo XX" ("Grado en Lenguas extranjeras y sus literaturas") held by Prof.a Aurora Conde Muñoz, at the Facultad de Filología of Universidad Complutense di Madrid (ES).
- 28th April 2017: 75 minutes lecture on Amelia Rosselli's Variazioni Belliche in the Séminaire L'œuvre de rupture dans la poésie contemporaine italienne, part of the cycle of seminars Opera contro: «l’œuvre de rupture contemporaine», Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (F).
- 13th – 14th November 2014: International Conference Nel «melograno di lingue». Andrea Zanzotto: plurilinguismo, traduzione, Colloque International, Université de Lorraine, Campus Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Nancy; title of the speech: Quasi «fuori idioma». Figure dell'indicibilità in Andrea Zanzotto.
- 10th-12th October 2014: International Conference Andrea Zanzotto, la natura, l'idioma, a cura del Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Italianistica dell'Università di Bologna, Pieve di Soligo-Solighetto-Cison di Valmarino; Title of the speech: «napalm dietro il paesaggio».
- 12th April 2013:· International Conference The American Association for Italian Studies, 33rd Annual Conference, University of Oregon & Valley River Center, Eugene, Oregon (USA); title of the speech: L'«automa» lirico di Variazioni Belliche.
- 25th October 2012: International Conference Hommage à Andrea Zanzotto, poète colloque, lectures, concert, témoignages, Institut Culturel Italien de Paris, 73, rue de Grenelle – 75007 Paris; title of the speech: Zanzotto − la poesia, al limite.
- 15th May 2009: International Conference Antonio Porta: il progetto infinito, Università di Bologna, Archiginnasio, Sala dello Stabat Mater; title of the speech: «Rapporti» tra verso e prosa.
- 23th November 2006: International Conference Andrea Zanzotto: un poeta nel tempo, Bologna, Biblioteca del Dipartimento di Italianistica; title of the speech: Le «funzioni insospettate» della poesia.
- 14th October 2006: International Conference Andrea Zanzotto tra Soligo e laguna di Venezia, Venezia, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Pieve di Soligo – Venezia, Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore; title of the speech: Andrea Zanzotto: il luogo della poesia.
- 8th June 2006: International Conference «Se dalle tue labbra uscisse la verità». Amelia Rosselli a dieci anni dalla scomparsa, Firenze, Circolo Fratelli Rosselli; title of the speech: «Perché io non voli»: immagine di uno stile in formazione.
- 25th February 2003: Research Seminar on Metaphor and subjectivity in Zanzotto, Rosselli and Porta (Taylor Institution, University of Oxford).
- 13th October 2001: International Conference Poetry in Italy in the 1960's and 1970's, University College London, Institute of Romance Studies; title of the speech: Le IX Ecloghe di Zanzotto, tra le «parentesi innumeri» di un'ininterrotta poesia.
