Teaching Activity
Academic year 2019/2020: Contract professor of Finnish Literature 2 (2nd cycle) (and, in a mutual relationship, Finnish Literature and Culture [2nd cycle] and Cultural Representations of Women and Gender in Finno-Ugric Contexts [Gemma]) and teaching tutor (for the course of Finnish Linguistics and Language), at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LILEC), University of Bologna.
Contract professor of Finnish language I-II (2nd cycle) (and, in a mutual relationship, Finnish literature I-II [2nd cycle]), at the Department of Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies, University of Naples "L'Orientale".
Academic year 2018/2019 (second semester): Contract professor of Finnish Language (2nd cycle) (and, in a mutual relationship, Finnish Literature 1 [2nd cycle], Finnish Literature 2 [2nd cycle], Finno-Ugric Philology 2 [2nd cycle]), at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LILEC), University of Bologna.
Education and Training
04/2019: PhD in DESE – Les Littératures de l’Europe Unie - European Literatures - Letterature dell’Europa Unita (International Curriculum in European Literature), Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LILEC), University of Bologna (final evaluation: excellent cum laude)
10/2017 - 12/2017: Erasmus+ Traineeship at the Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem [Eötvös Loránd University], Faculty of Education and Psychology (Budapest, Hungary)
11/2016 - 07/2017: Research stay at the CELIS research center of the Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA) (Clermont-Ferrand, France)
03/2012 - 09/2012: Researcher with scholarship provided by CIMO (Centre for International Mobility) at the Suomen kielen, suomalais-ugrilaisten ja pohjoismaisten kielten ja kirjallisuuksien laitos [Department of Finnish language, Finno-Ugric and Nordic languages and literatures] of the Helsingin yliopisto [University of Helsinki] (Helsinki, Finland); research and collection of material at the Folklore Archives of the Finnish Literature Society (Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran Kansanrunousarkisto)
06/2011: Master's degree in Modern, Postcolonial and Comparative Literatures, at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Bologna (final grade: 110/110 cum laude, with dignity of publication)
04/2011 - 05/2011: Period of research abroad relating to the Master's thesis at the Archive of Juminkeko-Säätiö (Kuhmo, Finland) guided by the Finnish writer Markku Nieminen, with a scholarship provided by the University of Bologna
06/2010 - 08/2010: Erasmus Placement Internship at the Juminkeko Foundation (Kuhmo, Finland); field research (interviews to eminent experts and bearers of Karelian oral tradition) in Viena Karelia, particularly in the villages of Vuokkiniemi, Haikola and Paanajärvi
03/2008: Bachelor's degree in Foreign Languages and Literature, at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Bologna (final grade: 110/110 cum laude)
08/2005 - 05/2006: Erasmus student at the University of Jyväskylä (Jyväskylä, Finland)
07/2002: Liceo specialising in Classical Studies diploma, at the Liceo Ginnasio Statale G.D. Romagnosi (Parma, Italy) (final grade: 100/100 cum laude)
Presentations and Conferences
Talks in occasion of conferences, symposia and days of study as a member of the Laboratorio Permanente di Studi sullo Sciamanesimo [Permanent Laboratory of Studies on Shamanism], directed and coordinated by Professor Carla Corradi Musi (University of Bologna):
01/03/2018, International Conference on Finno-Ugric Languages (University of Bologna): talk “Gli idiomi careliani e la tradizione popolare” [Karelian idioms and popular tradition];
01-02/03/2012, Conference “Sul cammino delle metamorfosi tra gli Urali e il Mediterraneo. Dal mito alle trasformazioni sociali” [On the Path of Metamorphosis between the Urals and the Mediterranean Sea. From the Myth to the Cultural Transformations] (University of Bologna): talk “Esseri ‘translativi’: casi di metamorfosi nelle fiabe tradizionali della Carelia di Viena” ["Translative" Beings: Cases of Metamorphosis in the Traditional Fairy Tales of Karelia of Viena], plus cooperation in the organization of the Conference;
30/06/2011, “Dia-logo: incontri letterari, tra la Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, le Comunità residenti a Bologna” [Dia-logo: literary meetings, between the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature and the Communities living in Bologna] (Bologna): presentation and reading of some pieces of prose and poetry of the Finnish literature;
07/11/2009, 48° Federal Meeting F.I.L.D.I.S. “La professionalità della donna oggi e domani” [Women's professional competence nowadays and tomorrow] (Bologna): presentation of Carla Corradi Musi's paper “La donna dagli archetipi mitici alle trasformazioni sociali” [Women from mythical archetypes to social changes];
01/04/2009, Symposium “Miti e metamorfosi. Sirene, dee, sibille, donne contemporanee. Dagli archetipi femminili alle trasformazioni sociali” [Myths and metamorphosis. Sirens, goddesses, sibyls, contemporary women. From female archetypes to social transformations] (University of Bologna): talk “Tra acqua, terra e cielo con la donna-anatra nera” [Among water, ground and sky with the woman-black duck];
14/10/2008, Conference “Lungo la via dei simboli e dei miti nella tradizione sciamanica: dagli Appennini alle Ande” [On the way of the symbols and myths in the shamanic tradition: from the Apennines to the Andes] (Bologna): involvement in the round table conference;
07/04/2008, Day of study “Uomo e ambiente naturale nella tradizione sciamanica” [Mankind and natural environment in the shamanic tradition] (University of Bologna): talk “Natura e totemismo nella fiaba finnico-careliana Musta sorsa (L’anatra nera)” [Nature and totemism in the Finnish-Karelian fairy tale Musta sorsa (The black duck)];
28/11/2007, Symposium “Acqua tra mito e realtà” [Water between myth and reality] (University of Bologna): presentation and reading of pieces of the Baltic-Finnic tradition, with images and filmed sequences on shamanism and the natural habitat in Eurasia (archive of the "Laboratorio Permanente di Studi sullo Sciamanesimo").
Seminars and seminar lectures
06-08/09/2017: DESE PhD programme seminars, held at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LILEC) of the Univeristy of Bologna; presentations: Autour du thème de la métamorphose dans le Chansonnier de Pétrarque (analyse textuelle) [Around the theme of metamorphosis in Petrarch's Chansonnier (textual analysis)] and Traduire le Chansonnier de Pétrarque en finnois et en hongrois : analyse comparée de quelques exemples (traductologie) [Translating Petrarch's Chansonnier into Finnish and Hungarian: comparative analysis of some examples (Translation Studies)]
26/10/2016: Seminar lecture (2 hours) on the theme “I narratori della Carelia di Viena” [The narrators of Viena Karelia] addressed to the students of Finno-Ugric philology (Master's and Bachelor's degree), held at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LILEC) of the University of Bologna
06-09/09/2016: DESE PhD programme seminars, held at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LILEC) of the University of Bologna; presentations: L’éros et l’illicite dans les premières décennies du XXe siècle. Réflexions sur les littératures hongroise et finlandaise dans le contexte européen (histoire de la littérature) [Eros and illicit in the first decades of the twentieth century. Reflections on Hungarian and Finnish literature in the European context (History of literature)] and L’idée d’éros dans les premières décennies du XXesiècle. Points de vue d’intellectuels hongrois et finlandais (histoire des idées) [The idea of eros in the first decades of the twentieth century. Points of view of Hungarian and Finnish intellectuals (History of ideas)]
12-13-14/10/2015: Seminar on the theme “La tradizione ugrofinnica e la sua continuità metamorfica. Dalle ‘radici’ alle interpretazioni contemporanee” [The Finno-Ugric tradition and its metamorphic continuity. From the "roots" to the contemporary interpretations] addressed to the students of Finno-Ugric philology (Master's and Bachelor's degree) of the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LILEC) of the University of Bologna, given at LILEC
10/12/2014: Seminar lecture “Sciamanesimo e Settentrione” [Shamanism and North] (presentation of the volume in question) addressed to the students of Finnish language and literature and of Finno-Ugric philology of the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LILEC) of the University of Bologna, given at LILEC
28/11/2012: Seminar lecture “La rappresentazione del viaggio nell’aldilà nelle fiabe di Viena” [The representation of the journey to the other world in Viena fairy tales] addressed to the students of Finnish language and literature and of Finno-Ugric philology of the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LILEC) of the University of Bologna, given at LILEC.
Other scientific and cultural activities
28/06/2019: Participation in the "I Boreali" Festival, organized by the Iperborea publishing house: talk "Vento dal nord. L'epica quotidiana dei Mumin" [Wind from the North. The daily epic of the Mumin], together with Noemi Vola and Emilio Varrà (Bologna)
29-30/10/2018: International Conference “L’Europa in divenire. Cultura, cittadinanza, lingua, spiritualità” (University of Bologna): member of the organizational committee
12-13-14/10/2016: International Seminar “Raconter l’Europe” organized by the Universities of Bologna, Strasbourg, Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar, Haute-Alsace of Mulhouse, and Aristotele of Salonicco (European project “Erasmus Mundus – CLE Culture Letterarie Europee”), held in Cesenatico (Italy): member of the organizational committee
11/2015 - 02/2016: Tutoring (during the “Seminario su fumetti europei” [Seminar on European comics]) on transcription and editing of the interview to Giacomo Nanni, realized in the context of the International Comics Festival BilBOlBul (9th edition, 19-22 November 2015, Bologna): G. Ferrari, G. Mangelli, D. Vichi (ed.), “Il tratto e la forma. Incontro con Giacomo Nanni” – Moderatore Alessio Trabacchini (The line and the form. Meeting with Giacomo Nanni – Moderator Alessio Trabacchini), in A. Sebastiani (ed.), Grammatiche. Narrazioni, linguaggi, fumetto. Incontri con Giacomo Nanni, Lilli Carré, Richard McGuire, Benoît Preteseille, David B., José Parrondo [Grammars. Narrations, languages, comics. Meetings with Giacomo Nanni, Lilli Carré, Richard McGuire, Benoît Preteseille, David B., José Parrondo], Bologna, Casa editrice Emil di Odoya (I libri di Emil), 2016
16/11/2015 - 12/12/2015: Participation at the advanced seminar “Cultura e lingua estone” [Estonian culture and language] (20 hours), held by Dr. Katrin Veiksaar in the context of the School of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Interpreting and Translation, at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University of Bologna
25/07/2015: Participation for the Iperborea publishing house in "Profondo Nord", a day-event dedicated to the memory of the Finnish director and critic Peter Von Bagh, organized by Mammut Film, with the meeting-presentation entitled “Autori finlandesi tra ironia e disincanto” [Finnish authors between irony and disenchantment] (Bologna)
23/07/2015: Participation in the “Cuore di Ghiaccio” Festival (Teatri di Vita, Bologna, 22 July - 2 August 2015), with the presentation “Sulle orme del cane bianco. Le fiabe della Carelia di Viena” [Following the footsteps of the white dog. The fairy tales of Viena Karelia], with final musical accompaniment (instrument: kantele), and dialogue with Stefano Casi
26/07/2014: Phone-interview at TRS Radio's programme “Il posto delle parole” [The words' place], as editor of the Finnish novel Chi ha ucciso la signora Skrof? [Who Murdered Mrs. Skrof?] (Iperborea 2014)
20/12/2013: Report on the event “Sándor Márai a Napoli” [Sándor Márai in Naples] published on the website of the "Associazione culturale Italo-Ungherese in Emilia-Romagna" (www.aciuer.com). The work, entitled “Nel segno del tricolore”, is the report of the meeting with the director Gilberto Martinelli, present at the showing of his documentary film “Sándor Márai e Napoli – Il sapore amaro della libertà” (event organized on the 9th of December 2013 at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University of Bologna, in occasion of the "Anno Culturale Ungheria-Italia 2013")
16/12/2013: Presentation and introduction of the Finnish director Selma Vilhunen's documentary "Laulu" (Song)", at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University of Bologna
09/12/2013: Presentation and introduction of the Finnish director Miia Tervo's documentary “Santra ja puhuvat puut (Santra and the talking trees)” and première of the video “La sopravvivenza della tradizione nella Finlandia di oggi” [The survival of the tradition in today's Finland], edited with Evelin Faelli and Francesca Romagnolo (Laboratorio Permanente di Studi sullo Sciamanesimo), at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University of Bologna
12/2013: Realization of the video “La sopravvivenza della tradizione nella Finlandia di oggi” together with Evelin Faelli and Francesca Romagnolo (Laboratorio Permanente di Studi sullo Sciamanesimo)
08/2010: Interview for the Finnish daily newspaper Kainuun Sanomat (interviewer: journalist Aino Tiirikkala), during the Erasmus Placement Internship carried out at the Juminkeko Foundation (Kuhmo, Finland); the article has been published in the Cultural section of Kainuun Sanomat
01-15/12/2008: collaboration in the realization of the Cineforum "Finlandia" held in the study room in via Gandusio 10 Bologna, with the contribution of the University of Bologna.
Memberships
Member of the Laboratorio Permanente di Studi sullo Sciamanesimo [Permanent Laboratory of Studies on Shamanism] formerly of the University of Bologna, directed and coordinated by Professor Carla Corradi Musi
Member of the Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura [Finno-Ugrian Society]
