Giulia Fiore

Giulia Fiore holds a PhD in Classics from the University of Bologna, where she graduated in Classical Philology in 2016, after spending a year at University College London, and where she is currently teaching assistant. Her research focuses on Greek tragedy, Aristotle’s Poetics, and the early modern reception of ancient drama and poetics, with particular interest in emotional responses to tragedy, moral agency, and the intersections of ethics, literature, philosophy of emotions, and the cognitive humanities. She has held research posts at the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance in Tours, at the Warburg Institute in London, at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama Oxford, and at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici in Naples, and has published widely on early modern interpretations of Senecan and Sophoclean Oedipuses, Antigones, and the Poetics. She is the recipient of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship with a project titled TragEmA: Tragic Emotions in the Anthropocene. The Ethical Urgency of Rethinking Ancient and Modern Pity through Citizen Humanities, which she will carry out at the University of Strasbourg (2026-2028).