PAOLA MARIA CARMELA ITALIA
CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Surname: ITALIA
First name(s): PAOLA MARIA CARMELA
Unique researcher identifier: Full Professor – ORCID 0000-0002-6281-7708
Website: https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/paola.italia
Date of birth: 03.11.1966
EDUCATION
1995-1998 PhD in Italian Studies (10th cycle), University of Pisa (Italy)
1994-1995 Scholarship for Graduate Studies Abroad from the University of Pavia, carried out at the University of Geneva (CH).
1991-1992 “Massimo Bontempelli” scholarship from the ‘Lincean Academy’ (Italy)
1990-1991 Bachelor’s degree in Italian Literature from the University of Pavia (Italy).
CURRENT POSITION Full Professor of Italian Philology and Scholarly Editing
9 December 2019 Dep. of Classic Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna (Italy)
PREVIOUS POSITION
2017- Department of Classic Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna (Italy)
2011-2017 Faculty of Latin and Greek, Italian, and Scenic-Musical Studies, Faculty of Literature, the Sapienza University, Rome (Italy)
2005-2011 Faculty of Philology and Literary Criticism, Faculty of Literature, University of Siena (Italy)
AWARDS
2025 Mario Tobino Prize, Viareggio 2025.
2024 Manara Valgimigli Prize for Philology, San Piero in Bagno, 2024.
2023 Costa Smeralda Prize for Gaddabolario, Roma, Carocci, 2022.
2007 International Prize Calabria: Barbara Colli, Paola Italia, Giulia Raboni (2006), for the critical edition Alessandro Manzoni, I promessi sposi, Vol. I. Fermo e Lucia. Prima minuta (1821- 1823), Milano, Casa del Manzoni, 2017 [19.10.2007].
2004 Domenico Rea Prize for Essay Writing 2004 for the volume Il pellegrino appassionato. Savinio scrittore (1915-1925), Palermo, Sellerio.
SUPERVISION OF POST-GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
2015-2026 37 post-graduate (Master’s) students (12 at the Sapienza University of Rome, 25 at the Bologna University), 10 PhDs (4 at the Sapienza University of Rome, 2 at the University of Pisa; 4 at the University of Bologna); Dott.ssa [https://www.disll.unipd.it/category/ruoli/personale-docente?key=6B7D4FE954BC67577FB5E1EFF8220DF0] : MSCF (ITEM, Paris), successfully appointed a Rita Montalcini Fellow and hired as a Junior Researcher and Associate Professor (Padua University) 2019; Dott.ssa [https://www.unimib.it/claudia-bonsi] : post-PhD, successfully hired as a Associate Professor (University of Milano Bicocca); Dott.ssa [https://www.disum.unict.it/corsi/l-20/docenti/milena.giuffrida]a: post-PhD, successfully hired as Junior Researcher (University of Catania) and winner 2025 FIS.
GRANTS AND FUNDINGS
2024-2026 2024–2026 Project Lead for ‘Reading The Betrothed in Beijing’ https://projects.dharc.unibo.it/leggomanzoni/pekino – University of Bologna Facilities Call for Proposals (2024–2025) (Funded budget allocation: 18,000). Project website: https://projects.dharc.unibo.it/leggomanzoni/pekino
2023–2026 Head of the University of Bologna’s local unit for the PRIN 2022 project ‘A digital commentary model for 20th-century literature. The case of Carlo Emilio Gadda’s L’Adalgisa. Disegni milanesi’ [Funded amount: 73.440].
2022-2025 Head of Bologna Unity Leopardi e l'antico PRIN 2020 Project [total Fund: 178.178]
2020 Head of Digital Manuscript: Imagine, 3D and Virtual Restoration (Emilia Romagna Fund High Competences Grant) [total fund: 30.000].
2020- The Italian Art of Political Correctness: Patronage, Censorship, and Authorship in Florentine Renaissance Historiography (1548-1574), Insight Grants (PI Prof. Dario Brancato, Concordia University) – Coapplicant [total fund 96.857].
2015-2017 Head of Bologna Unity Manzoni Digital Edition [http://projects.dharc.unibo.it/philoeditor/] : Manzoni on line: carte, libri, edizioni, strumenti, PRIN 2015 (PI Prof.ssa G. Raboni, University of Parma); Total funding: €254,000; Bologna Unity Funding: €51,000.
2014-2015 Head of Multidisciplinary Project with Sapienza Physics Department: THESMA PROJECT €20,000.
2009-2011 Digital Critical Edition Study GaddaMAN – C.E. Gadda Literary Manuscripts Collections PRIN 2009 (PI Prof. C. Vela, University of Pavia); Total funding: €86,551; Siena Unity Funding: €36,424.
ORGANISATION OF CONFERENCES
2025 Alma Leopardi 2025. Almost a faithful mirror. Giacomo Leopardi between biography and self-representation. 3rd edition, 19 December 2025 (https://centrostudileopardiani.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/DEF_Alma-Leopardi-25.pdf ).
2024 Constants and Variants in Genetic Criticism, 10–11 May 2024 (https://genesis-2024.github.io/conference/ ).
2023 Lectures on Gadda. The professors of the University of Bologna and ‘The Engineer’, a seminar and documentary exhibition curated by P. Italia (in collaboration with Lorenzo Sabatino), 22 November 2023, 3.00 pm (Aula Forti): Daniela Baroncini, Marco Antonio Bazzocchi, Niva Lorenzini.
2022 Unfinished Works. Interdisciplinary seminar, Bologna, 30 November 2022, 3.00 pm (Aula Forti): Benedetta Zaccarello, Paul Valéry or the Aesthetics of Impossible Fulfilment; Gianfranca Balestra, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Unfinished Work: ‘The Love of the Last Tycoon’; Giorgio Pinotti, Gadda’s Unfinished Works; Simone Celani, “I am a fragment of myself”: Pessoa = Unfinished?
2021 Paris 1937. The Birth of Variant Criticism, Brno, 11 October 2021, Permanent Seminar on Romance Philology, Brno (CZ).
2021 Tobino e Bologna, Bologna 14 maggio 2021 (in collaboration with the Mario Tobino Foundation and the Bologna Centre for Medical Humanities).
2021 Laboratorio Bassani 3: Verso il Giardino, Bologna, 26-27 maggio 2021 (in collaboration with the Giorgio Bassani Foundation).
2020 Italianistica digitale, Convegno internazionale, Bologna, 2.3 ottobre 2020 (https://italianisticadigitale-unibo.github.io/ ).
2019 International Conference: Carte, penne, inchiostri. Imaging, 3D e restauro digitale, Bologna, 6 December 2019 (http://www.ficlit.unibo.it/it/eventi/carte-penne-inchiostri.-imaging-3d-e-restauro-digitale - [http://www.filologiadautore.it/wp/chi-rti-project/#stampa] ).
2019 Intorno all’Infinito, Seminario Internazionale di Studi, Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, 25 October 2019 (http://www.bnnonline.it/index.php?it/22/eventi/674/intorno-allinfinito - [http://www.filologiadautore.it/wp/2019/09/20/seminario-internazionale-studi-intorno-all-infinito-biblioteca-nazionale-napoli-25-ottobre-2019/] ).
2016 Conference: Manoscritti 2.0. Filologia, Paleografia e nuove tecnologie, Rome 20 May 2016 (http://www.filologiadautore.it/wp/manoscritti-2-0/ - [http://www.filologiadautore.it/wp/2016/06/02/video-manoscritti-2-0/] )
2015 International Conference + Workshop: ECD/DCE. Edizioni Critiche Digitali/Digital Critical Editions and Workshop Photonics for Humanities, Rome 27 March 2015 ( [http://www.filologiadautore.it/wp/2015/05/13/ecddce-edizioni-a-confrontocomparing-editions/] ).
PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES BY INVITATION
26–28 February 2026 ‘The “Monstrous Tangle of Reality”’. Gaddian Patterns between Philosophy and Literature, Keynote Speaker at Intrecci – Dynamics, Structures, Motifs, Graz, 2026 (https://italianistiktag2026.uni-graz.at/it/), Graz (A).
2–4 October 2025 Genetic Patterns: between repetition and innovation, Keynote Speaker at VI Conference Theme, “Genesis and Mimesis”, Vilnius University, 2025, Vilnius (LI).
7–9 March 2024 P. Italia and G. Raboni, The Manzonionline portal and digital teaching projects, Categories: training, transformation, inter(action) – Conference on Italian Studies, Albert-Ludwig-Universität Freiburg, Seminar on Romance Philology, Freiburg (D).
29 September 2023 ‘A Grammar of Corrections’, in Genesis 2023 – Taipei, ‘The Draft and Its Environs: From the Writer’s Desk to the Desktop’ (Taipei).
6 March 2023 Carlo Emilio Gadda’s Giornale di guerra e di prigionia, lecture in Rebecca Falkoff’s course at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (USA).
4 March 2023 Presentation at Casa Italiana Zerilli Merimò (C.E. Gadda’s Giornale di guerra e di prigionia, Milan, Adelphi, 2023 (https://casaitaliananyu.org/events/carlo-emilio-gaddas-giornale-di-guerra-e-di-prigionia), New York (USA).
2 March 2023 “Trenches and concentration camp writings: the case of C.E. Gadda’s *Journal of War and Imprisonment* (new edition)” – Series: Spaces of Creativity, Creating Space. CCR (https://kreatywnosc.polonistyka.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/pracownia/czlonkowie-zespolu) (Jagiellonian University) (PL).
26–28 May 2022 Mapping the Author, Panel at STS’s 2022 International Interdisciplinary Conference (“Cultural Mappings”) hosted by Loyola University Chicago, 26–28 May 2022, with Sergio Parussa and Giulia Raboni, Chicago (USA).
25.03.2022 Dante and the XIX Century, Lincean Academy for 2021 “Dante 700” Celebrations (Invited International Conference).
17–19 March 2022 The double text. The history of “alternative variants” in the Italian tradition, in Histories of the Holograph: From Ancient to Modern Manuscripts and Beyond, Jesus College, Ship Street Centre, Oxford (UK).
10–12 March 2022 Editions, Translations, Transmissions. ‘That Awful Mess’ by Carlo Emilio Gadda, University of Oxford, 10–12 March 2022, Oxford (UK).
8 March 2022 The Italian Tradition of Authorial Philology and Variant Criticism, OCTET (Oxford Centre of Textual Editing and Theory), Faculty of English, St Cross Building, 5.00 pm, Oxford (UK).
1 October 2021 Moving Texts. Philology and Digital Humanities, Naples, 1 October 2021 (Invited talk: ‘Towards a digital “variant criticism”’) Naples (IT).
24–26 November 2021 Ecdotics and Authorial Philology, 10th International Congress ‘Lope de Vega’: Editing Lope, 30 Years On, Pro Lope, Barcelona (ES).
2 November 2020 Paola Italia and Giulia Raboni, ‘Authorial Variants: The Italian Case’, Oxford – Italian Studies, Italian Research Seminar TEAMS Channel. Oxford (UK) [https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/access/content/group/modlang/general/weekly_roundup/MT20/29.10.2020/Italia-Raboni%20Varianti_%20d_autore-1.pdf]
8, 15, 22 and 29 October 2020 Author-centred philology. Intensive online course, CUSO PhD in Italian Studies (Fribourg, Geneva, Lausanne) [https://italiano.cuso.ch/index.php?id=3409&L=0&tx_displaycontroller[showUid]=4999] Lausanne (CH)
21–22 November 2019 The Text in Motion. Towards a Grammar of Rewriting, Keynote lecture as part of ‘Italian Literary Texts in Motion. Works with Multiple Versions’, Doctoral Seminar – Pio Rajna Study Centre, Rome, 21–22 November 2019, Pio Rajna Study Centre, Villa Altieri, Viale Manzoni 47, Rome (IT).
7 November 2019 The Method of the Infinite. Digital Philology, Imaging and 3D, Doctoral Seminar at USI in Lugano (University of Italian Switzerland), 7 November 2019: with Roberta Priore (3 hrs), Lugano (CH).
3–31 October 2019 “Those Associated with Crime”. Philology, Literature and Psychoanalysis in Carlo Emilio Gadda’s Eros and Priapus, SEMINAR at the SCUOLA GALILEIANA DI STUDI SUPERIORI (University of Padua) – DEPARTMENT OF MORAL SCIENCES, 3–31 October 2019 (15 hrs), Padua (IT).
12-13.11.2018 Digital authorial philology. From Manzoni to Gadda, Digital ecdotics and new critical approaches to the text, Colloque internationale, Liège, 12-13 November 2018, Université de Liège, Liège (BE).
19.10.2018 At the origins of the "critique of scrapbooks", in "Génétique dans le monde" au congrès decinquenaire de l¹ITEM - La critique génétique comme processus, Congrès international du centonaire dell'ITEM (1968-2018), 17-20 October, Paris (FR).
16-17.10.2018 True and false modern manuscripts. Case studies from Italian Literature, Technology, and Handwritten Cultural Heritage: Opportunities, Issues, and Questions, International Workshop, Bologna, University Library, Via Zamboni 33-35, Bologna (IT).
October 8, 2018, "Li associati a delinquere." Gadda's Voices in "Eros and Priapus," in "With Another Voice." Echoes, Variations, and Dissonances in Literary Expression, International Doctoral Seminar, Pisa, October 8-10, 2018, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (IT).
June 16, 2018, The Digital Novel, in "Born Digital" Editions and Texts: Methodological Issues and Work Prospects, International Conference on Digital Philology, Verona, June 15-16, 2018, Verona (IT).
April 26, 2018, "A “Creative Station.” A journey into Savinio's laboratory through manuscripts, papers and drafts, CIMA Savinio's Study Day, Lecture on Invitation, New York (USA).
19.04.2018 Fake Texts and Wiki Editions: Towards a Sustainable Digital Philology, in Textual Philology Facing Liquid Modernity: Identifying Objects, Evaluating Methods, Exploiting Media, Sapienza University of Rome – PhD Program in Philology and History of the Ancient World / Departments of Ancient World Studies and of Greco-Latin, Italian, and Performing Arts Studies; International Conference, April 18–20, 2018, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, Rome (IT).
26.01.2018 La filología de autor. Edición de textos e historia de la lengua [Authorial Philology: Textual Editing and the History of the Language], invited lecture for the International PhD Program “Lenguas, Textos y Contextos,” Granada (ES).
11.2017 International Fellowship, Wellesley College, featuring the lectures: November 6, “Manuscripts as Fingerprints of Creative Thinking and Sustainable Digital Humanities,” Pendleton East 239; November 9, 2017, “Narcissistic Ego and Voltage Drop: Science, Politics, and Psychoanalysis in Carlo Emilio Gadda’s *Eros e Priapo*,” Collins Cinema (sponsored by ECCO, the Department of Italian Studies, and the Blended Learning Initiative); Wellesley – Boston (USA).
06.04.2017 “The Voltage Drop”: Scientific Metaphors and Models in Carlo Emilio Gadda’s Eros e Priapo, in III National Conference on Mathematics and Literature: Words, Formulas, Emotions, April 5–7, 2017, Department of Mathematics, Fisciano, Salerno (IT). [http://www.dipmat2.unisa.it/iniziative/mlac2017/files/Programma-Convegno.pdf]. Streaming recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARjBeT5Z_ko. 17.03.2017 La philologia de author, in V Jornadas sobre editiÓn de textos e historia de la lengua: Filología y Ecdótica (Universidad de Sevilla, Aula Magna de la Facultad de Filología), Sevilla (ES).
10.03.2017 Digital philology. WIKI and Philoeditor critical edition, in The experience of the text. Archives, concordances and philology in the digital aga [http://www.disum.unict.it/it/content/lexperience-del-testo-archivi-concordanze-e-filologia-nellera-digitale] Catania (IT).
20.12.2016 Where is Authorial Philology Headed? (Dove va la filologia d’autore?), SFLI Study Day, Florence, Palazzo Strozzi – L’altana (SNS), Florence (IT).
01–02.12.2016 Geo-graphic Papers: Prose Writers at Work (Carte geo-grafiche. Prosatori al lavoro), in *Systems in Motion: Avant-text and Variants—From the Author’s Workshop to the Critical Workshop* (Sistemi in movimento. Avantesto e varianti, dal laboratorio d’autore al laboratorio critico), University of Pavia–ITEM, Collegio Ghislieri, Pavia (IT) [http://www.item.ens.fr/journees-detude-si/].
28–29.09.2016 Errors 2.0 (Errori 2.0), in *Philology and Error* (La filologia e l’errore), Sapienza University of Rome, Aula degli Organi Collegiali, Rome (IT) [https://news.uniroma1.it/28092016_1000].
30.05–01.06.2016 Authorial Philology in the 17th Century: The Editions of Federico Ubaldini (Filologia d’autore nel Seicento: le edizioni di Federico Ubaldini), in Philological Activity in Italy between the 15th and 17th Centuries (L’attività filologica in Italia tra Quattro e Seicento), Sapienza University of Rome – British School at Rome, Rome (IT).
20.05.2016 The Gadda Case (Il caso Gadda), in Manuscripts 2.0: Philology, Paleography, and New Technologies (Manoscritti 2.0. Filologia, Paleografia e nuove tecnologie), concluding conference of the multidisciplinary THESMA PROJECT (Sapienza Ricerca 2014), Rome (IT).
http://www.filologiadautore.it/wp/manoscritti-2-0/
17–18.05.2016 “Eros and Priapus”: Text and Urtext*—A Philological Workshop (“Eros e Priapo”, testo e Urtext: un laboratorio filologico), in Textual Forms: Publishing and Philology in Italy between the 19th and 20th Centuries (Le forme del testo. Editoria e filologia in Italia tra Otto e Novecento), PhD Program in “Philology, Italian Literature, and Linguistics,” Florence (IT).
12–14 May 2016 “A Sort of Poem”: Strategies of Vision and Narration in Bassani, in Giorgio Bassani: The Passion for Images (International Colloquium), Université Paris-Sorbonne, Maison de la recherche, Paris (FR).
11 May 2016 Editing Bassani, in How Was Giorgio Bassani’s ‘The Garden of the Finzi-Continis’ Born? (Seminar), Université Grenoble Alpes, LUHCIE, Stendhal Building, Grenoble (FR).
9 May 2016 Digital Authorial Philology: The Gadda Case, in Digital Critical Editions: Experiences, Challenges, and Perspectives—Comparing Traditions in Italy and Germany (International Workshop), Joint PhD Program in Linguistic and Literary Studies (Universities of Udine and Trieste), Trieste (IT).
02.12.2016 Bassani's reader and the Deliliers case, Bassani dans son siècle, Colloque international organisé à l'occasion du centenaire de la naissance de Giorgio Bassani, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, CIRCE (Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur la Culture des Echanges), Paris (FR).
23.11.2015, Stratigraphies et variants: nouvelles perspectives autour de la philologie d'auteur, Le séminaire suivi par la présentation du project Thesma Lieu: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 – Center Censier, Salle Las Vergnas (3eétage), Séminaire « Critique génétique et philologie d'auteur. Rencontre(s) méthodologique(s), Paris (FR).
November 18, 2015, War Papers, in Gadda's War: Texts, History, Interdisciplinary Conference, Department of Letters, Arts, History, Society, University of Parma, Parma (IT).
June 12-13, 2015, The Betrothed's Genetic Analytic Edition: A New Way to Study Texts, The Mechanic Reader, Siena-Certosa di Pontignano, Centre for Comparative Studies, Siena (IT).
April 23, 2015, Stratigraphies and Authorial Variants: From Manzoni to Gadda, in Four Conversations on Philology, Biblioteca Ambrosiana - Università Cattolica di Milano, Milan (IT).
March 27, 2015, Paola Italia and Giorgio Pinotti, Wiki Gadda in ECD/DCE Edizioni a confronto/Comparing Editions, with a Photonics for Humanities Workshop, Department of Greco-Latin, Italian, Scenic-Musical Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, March 27, 2015, Rome (IT).
March 19-20, 2015, "Authoral Philology, Genetic Criticism, and Variant Criticism: Diachrony, Synchrony, and Taxonomy," in Manuscrits italiens du XVIIIe siècle: une approche génétique, Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, Paris (FR).
28–29 Jan. 2015 Twentieth-Century Philology; How Contini Worked, lecture series at the Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) in Pisa, Pisa (IT).
9 Dec. 2014 Digital Critical Editions (ECD) and Analytical Genetic Editions (EGA): Two Case Studies – The Digital Metamorphosis /2, Archives, Libraries, Philology, 9–10 December 2014, University Library of Sassari, Sassari (IT).
2–3 Dec. 2014 Terahertz Imaging of Unreadable Manuscripts – International Workshop Thz-ARTE, ENEA, 2–3 December 2014, Frascati, Rome (IT) http://www.frascati.enea.it/thz-arte/abstracts/Wed-II-02%20Italia_Ortolani_manuscripts.pdf.
11 Nov. 2014 Handwriting, Authorship, Authenticity, in *A carte scoperte: Eugenio Montale and the “Diario postumo”: A Forgery?*, Bologna, 11 November 2014, Archiginnasio Library, Stabat Mater Hall [http://www.ficlit.unibo.it/it/eventi/a-carte-scoperte] Bologna (IT).
18–19 Sept. 2014 Paola Italia and Fabio Vitali, Textual Variants and Versioning: Between Textual Bibliography and Computer Science, AIUCD2014 – Humanities Research Methodology in the Digital Ecosystem – Bologna [http://aiucd2014.unibo.it/] Bologna (IT).
21, 28 May – 4 June 2014 School of Advanced Studies (SSAS) at Sapienza University of Rome, Lecture Series: How to Create a Critical Edition – Rome (IT). 30.01.2014 Demonstrating (and Refuting) the Best Working Hypothesis, Inter-doctoral seminar: Demonstrating, Arguing, and Refuting in the Humanities, Alma Mater Studiorum, Advanced School of the Humanities, Bologna (IT).
08–09.11.2013 The New “Eros and Priapus” – Conference organized by the Doctoral School in Italian Civilization, *Cantieri testuali*: Gadda, Institute of Italian Studies, Lugano (CH).
07.06.2013 Terre emerse: the works of Carlo Emilio Gadda, Ne varietur Conference. 1st Symposium on the Editing of Complete Works, Autonomous University of Barcelona,June 7, 2013, "A cura de" Research Group (SGR 552 – AGAUR), Barcelona (ES) http://www.catedramariustorres.udl.cat/materials/biblioteca/preceptives/index.php .
23.05.2013 The Gadda Case: From the Bugiardone and Eros e la Banda to Eros e Priapo, Authorial Rewritings: Literary Creation through Macro-textual Variants, Research Seminar – Sapienza University of Rome [https://www.uniroma1.it/it/node/16368] Rome (IT).
15-17.02.2012 Editing 20th-Century Literature: Issues and Proposals. Featuring two case studies: Gadda and Montale; Wiki Gadda: editing the first draft of Eros e Priapo (1944–1946) (with practical exercises), Doctoral lecture within the ERASMUS Programme – Teaching Staff Mobility, Edinburgh (UK).
26.01.2011 Authorial Philology and Web 2.0: Gadda as a Case Study. Study day at the Doctoral School of the French-speaking University of Belgium, Université Libre de Bruxelles – Faculty of Philosophy and Letters – Department of Languages and Literatures – CP 175 – Avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50-B-1050 [Textual Genetics, http://www.fusl.ac.be/fr/pdf/Agenda/longreedepliant.pdf] Brussels (BE). 04.30.2010 Editing Landolfi, history methods problems, Tommaso Landolfi: a tribute co-sponsored by the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and Stony Brook University with the cooperation of the international journal, GRADIVA and the Center for Italian Studies. Welcoming Remarks: Professors Mario B. Mignone and Luigi Fontanella, Stony Brook University, New York (US) http://www.disp.let.uniroma1.it/fileservices/filesDISP/Programma_Stony_Brook.pdf.
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
2025 Member of the Quality Assurance Committee (QA Committee) for the DHDK degree programme.
2022 Public Engagment Referee (University of Bologna Public Engagement Observatory).
2021 Public Engagment Referee (Classic Philology and Italian Studies Department, University of Bologna (Italy).
2019- Quality Assurance Committee, Classic Philology and Italian Studies Department, University of Bologna (Italy).
2019- Level II Degree “Italianistica” Orientation and Traineeship Activities Committee, Classic Philology and Italian Studies Department, University of Bologna (Italy).
2018- Level II Degree “Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge” Scientific Commitee, Classic Philology and Italian Studies Department, University of Bologna (Italy).
2017-2019 Erasmus + Research Night Coordinator for Classic Philology and Italian Studies Department, University of Bologna (Italy) with [https://corsi.unibo.it/magistrale/ItalianisticaCultureLetterarieLinguistica/bacheca/2017-09-notte-dei-ricercatori-29-settembre-2017] .
COMMISSIONS OF TRUSTS
JOURNALS
2026 “Pròdìgi”, scientific committee [Editors: Francesca Tomasi, Andrea Severi] https://prodigi.unibo.it/.
2024 “Limina”, scientific committee [Editors: Elisabetta Tonello and Ciro Perna] https://edizioni.libreriauniversitaria.it/libro/limina-intorno-al-testo-2024-2/ Open Access.
2022– “Leopardiana”, scientific committee [editor: Laura Melosi; scientific committee: Fabiana Cacciapuoti, Marco Dondero, Franco D’Intino, Alberto Folin, Christian Genetelli].
2021– “Culture Digitali”, scientific committee [editors: Carmine Marinucci, Pamela Giorgi, Olimpia Niglio, Maria Teresa Natale, Angelo Argento]. [https://www.diculther.it/rivista/comitato-scientifico/]
2019– ‘Digital Humanities’, Scientific Committee Reviewer Panel [editor: Fabio Ciotti]. [CLASS A].
2018- European Book Review and Contributing Editors – Editorial Committee of the international Journal “Textual Cultures” (OJS) [http://textual-cultures.org/masterhead/]
2016- Editorial committee of the international journal "Genesis" (ITEM’s journal, Paris) [http://genesis.revues.org/%20] .
2014-2018 Editorial committee of the international Journal “Annali Manzoniani” (National Centre for Manzonian Studies) ( [http://annali.casadelmanzoni.it/index.php/annali] ).
2010- Editorial and Co-editorship [2014-] committee of the journal “Ecdotica”, University of Bologna (Italy) () [http://www.ecdotica.org)] .
2010 Design and editorship of the Authorial Philology portal [http://www.filologiadautore.it/] and the didactic channel WIKI GADDA YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/user/wikigadda]
BOOK SERIES
2020- “Officina d’autore”, Officina Libraria Editore [co-editors: Claudia Bonsi and Maria Villano].( https://www.officinalibraria.net/catalogo/collana/23=).
2017- Co-editorship (with S. Albonico and G. Raboni) of the Series “Filologia d’autore”, Carocci editore (Rome, Italy) (http://www.filologiadautore.it/wp/collana/ - [http://www.filologiadautore.it/wp/collana/] ).
2014- Co-editorship of the Paper/Web Series “BITeS” Biblioteca Italiana Testi & Studi, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Roma (www.bitesonline.it).
2011- Co-editorship (with Giorgio Pinotti and Claudio Vela) of the Opere (Works) of Carlo Emilio Gadda, Adelphi editore (Milan, Italy) ( [http://www.filologiadautore.it/wiki/index.php?title=Pagina_principale] ).
MEMBERSHIP OF CENTRES AND ACADEMIC SOCIETIES
2025 Judge for the “Maria Corti” Literary Prize (http://centromanoscritti.unipv.it/attivita/attivita-in-corso.html).
2023– Judge for the Biennial Marino Moretti Prize for Philology, History and Criticism in the field of Italian literature (https://casamoretti.it/casa-moretti/premio/).
2023 Judge for the Lattes-Grinzane Prize (https://fondazionebottarilattes.it/premio-lattes-grinzane-2023-verso-la-cerimonia-del-14-ottobre/).
2021- Centro Studi Carlo Emilio Gadda (CSG) Scientific Commitee - Università degli studi di Pavia (external expert member) ( [https://centrostudigadda.unipv.it/] ).
2020- ALDINA scientific committee – Archivi Digitali Nativi (http://www.aiucd.it/aldina-archivi-letterari-digitali-nativi/ ) ( [https://aiucd.github.io/aldina/notizie.html] ).
2020-2025 Alma Mater Cultural and Creative Industrial interaction Centre ( [https://da.unibo.it/it/ricerca/progetti-di-ricerca/progetti-in-ambito-nazionale/c-r-i-c-c] ).
2020- Alma Mater Research Institute for Human-Centered Artificial intelligence ( [https://centri.unibo.it/alma-ai/it] ).
2019 Judge for the Gadda Prize – Established Scholars, organised by the Edinburgh Journal of Gadda Studies (https://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/delc/italian/sis-2019/edinburgh-gadda-prize).
2019- Digital Advanced Research Centre ( [https://centri.unibo.it/dharc/en/centre/centre-people] ) Scientific Commitee, University of Bologna (Bologna, IT).
2014-2019 Scientific Committee of the National Centre for Manzonian Studies (Milan, Italy) [http://www.casadelmanzoni.it/]
FELLOWSHIPS
· 24–30.10.2022 Fellowship at the University of Lisbon (Erasmus Teaching Exchange) “How do they work? Presentation of the ‘Authorial Philology’ collection” (Rome, Carocci, 2017–) 24 October, 12 noon–1 pm (Seminar at the Faculty of Arts); 2. Authorial Philology and Variant Criticism. The Italian case 24 October, 2–5 pm. (Seminar course “History of Textual Scholarship”); 3. Authorial Philology and New Technologies 25 October, 2–5 pm; Presentation of the project: “Cards on the table” (Bologna, BUP, 2021), 25 October, 5–6 pm. (Seminar course “Production of Texts”) Lisbon (P).
· 18.02.2022-20.03.2022 Fellowship Oxford St. Hugh's College, EP Mobility Ougoing Fund - Oxford University (UK).
· 04.2019-05.2019 Fellowship Concordia University (Outgoing Mobility Alma Mater Bologna-Concordia University and Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal) The "Neapolitan notebook" and the method of "Infinity" by Leopardi Concordia University - Montreal (CA).
· 1-30.11.2017 International Fellowship, Wellesley College with lectures: Sponsored by the ECCO, the Department of Italian Studies and the Blended Learning Initiative; Wellesley - Boston (USA).
· 2011-2012 ‘Twentieth-century Editing: problems and proposals. within ERASMUS PROGRAMME- Teaching Staff Mobility - Edinburgh (UK).
