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Silvia Ferrara

Professoressa ordinaria

Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Italianistica

Settore scientifico disciplinare: L-FIL-LET/01 CIVILTA EGEE

Curriculum vitae

1. PERSONAL INFORMATION

Researcher ORCID 0000-0003-2498-7666

Date of birth 12/05/1976

ERC project: https://site.unibo.it/inscribe/en

Wikipedia: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvia_Ferrara

Presentation on my research:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlrRuruwWro&t=16s (ENG)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Okhj2G0n3UE&t=11s (IT)

SHORT BIO

Specialised on ancient writing systems, Silvia Ferrara has developed multi-stranded techniques on the decoding of the Aegean Bronze Age scripts, the earliest in Europe, and published the results on international peer-reviewed journals. She is also an expert on the invention of writing in the world, Mesopotamia, China, Mesoamerica and Egypt. She has published two monographs with Oxford University Press, and a wide array of articles in the top-end tier journals in the field. Her latest monograph, Origins of Writing in the Eastern Mediterranean, is in the works with Oxford University. Another book with Feltrinelli, La Grande Invenzione was published in October 2019 and has been translated in 7 countries, in the USA with the title The Greatest Invention (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, out on the 22 March 2022), UK (Picador), Germany (Beck), France (La fabuleuse histoire de l’invention de l'écriture, Seuil published in January 2021), Spain (Anagrama), Greece (Patakis) and China (Chonquing). As of 2021, she is writing another book for Feltrinelli.

Invited as keynote to more than 100 international conferences, she also gives master-classes all over the world.

In 2017 she was awarded an ERC Consolidator grant for a project entitled INSCRIBE (Invention of Scripts and their Beginnings, which will run to 2024) https://site.unibo.it/inscribe/en. With her team Ferrara sheds light on the invention of writing from a multi-disciplinary comparative approach comprising archaeology, anthropology, cultural evolution, linguistics, cognitive studies and decipherment strategies. In 2020 her team deciphered the mathematical values of the fractions in Linear A, a writing system from the island of Crete.

She is a member of the National Committee of Guarantors for Research (CNGR), sole member responsible for the Humanities (SH), https://cngr.miur.it/componenti/.

2. CURRENT POSITIONS

2018 – Full Professor of Aegean Philology, Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna.

2017– Principal Investigator, ERC Consolidator Grant INSCRIBE (Invention of Scripts and their Beginnings)

2019 – Member, National Committee of Guarantors for Research (CNGR), Ministry of Education, Italy

2019 – Resident Member, Institute of Advanced Studies (ISA) Humanities, University of Bologna

2019 –Senior Research Fellow, Sapienza School for Advanced Studies (SSAS), Sapienza University of Rome.

2019 –Member of the Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Centre, University of Bologna.

3. PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2017 – 2018 Associate Professor of Aegean Civilisations, Classics Department, Sapienza University of Rome.

2013 – 2019 Junior Research Fellow, Sapienza School for Advanced Studies (SSAS), Sapienza University of Rome.

2011 – 2017 Assistant Professor of Aegean Civilisations - Rita Levi Montalcini Program, Rientro dei Cervelli, Classics Department, Sapienza University of Rome.

2006 – 2010 Junior Research Fellow in Archaeology, St John’s College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

4. EDUCATION

2001 – 2006 PhD in Classics, Department of Greek and Latin, University College London, United Kingdom, ‘The Undeciphered Cypro-Minoan Script: An Interdisciplinary Approach’. Supervisor: Professor John Bennet.

1999 – 2001 MPhil in Classics and Archaeology, Classics Department, University of Oxford, United Kingdom (transferred to PhD in 2000).

1995 – 1999 University College London, Institute of Archaeology: 4-year BA in Archaeology, Classics and Classical Art (First Class Honours, top of the 1999 class).

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