curriculum
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATION
15 June 2023: University Teaching Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) for Full Professorship in Germanic Languages, Literatures and Cultures (10/M1).
13 January 2014: University Teaching Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) for Associate Professorship in Germanic Languages, Literatures and Cultures (10/M1).
1 February 2009 – 31 January 2011: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Doctoral School in Text Science, Section of Germanic Philology and Linguistics, University of Siena (Arezzo). Research area: “La letteratura tecnico-scientifica (Fachliteratur) in area germanica tra medioevo e età moderna”. Research project: “La letteratura dietetico-culinaria di area germanica tra medioevo ed età moderna: analisi ed edizione di alcuni testi”.
10 June 2005: PhD in Germanic Philology and Linguistics, University of Siena (17th doctoral cycle), with a dissertation entitled "La letteratura culinaria in bassotedesco medio. Un'indagine linguistica e storico-culturale sulla base del ricettario di Wolfenbüttel (cod. Guelf. Helmst. 1213)".
2001: Admitted, with scholarship funding, to the PhD programme in Germanic Philology and Linguistics at University of Siena (17th doctoral cycle).
Winter Semester 1999-2000: German Magister degree (Magistra Artium) at the Philosophische Fakultät of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität of Bonn (sehr gut / ottimo).
2 December 1999: Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures (German and English), University of Florence, with a thesis in Germanic Philology entitled "Un manuale di tedesco per Italiani del XV secolo: lo Sprachbuch di Meister Jörg (110/110 cum laude).
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
1 March 2015-present: Associate Professor of Germanic Philology, Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Ferrara.
April 2014-February 2015: Fixed-term Lecturer (RTD-A) in Germanic Philology (L-FIL-LET/15), Faculty of Arts, eCampus University.
2013-2014: Adjunct Professor in Germanic Philology, Faculty of Arts, eCampus University.
2010-2011 to 2013-2014: Adjunct Professor in Germanic Philology, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, later Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Ferrara.
2010-2011: Adjunct Professor in Germanic Philology (teaching collaboration - 24 hours - within the official course held by Prof. Fabrizio Raschellà) Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, University of Siena (Arezzo).
INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE
2026-2027: President of the Joint Committee of Teachers and Students of the Department of Humanistic Studies and member representing the BA programme in Modern Languages and Literatures (L-11).
January 2025 – December 2026: Member of the Executive Board (giunta) of the Department of Humanistic Studies.
November 2024 – present: Deputy Coordinator of the MA programme in Foreign Languages and Literatures (LM-37).
2024-2025: Member of the Joint Committee of Teachers and Students of the Department of Humanistic Studies representing the BA programme in Modern Languages and Literatures (L-11).
July 2022 – present: Coordinator of the double-degree programme between the MA programme in Foreign Languages and Literatures (LM-37) at University of Ferrara and the MA programme Interkulturelle Studien (IKE) at University of Regensburg.
2022-2023: Member of the Joint Committee of Teachers and Students of the Department of Humanistic Studies representing the MA programme in Foreign Languages and Literatures (LM-37).
November 2018 – October 2021: Coordinator of the BA programme in Modern Languages and Literatures (L-11) and member of the Executive Board (giunta) of the Department of Humanistic Studies.
November 2015 – present: Erasmus and International Mobility Coordinator for the Department of Humanistic Studies.
TEACHING
Translation of Medieval Germanic Texts (MA programme) – Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Ferrara – 2024 to present.
German Literature I (BA programme) – Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Ferrara – 2022-2023.
Germanic Philology (BA and MA programmes) – Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Ferrara – 2010 to present.
Germanic Philology (BA and MA programmes) – Faculty of Arts, eCampus University – 2013 to February 2015.
TEACHING ABROAD
13 June 2023 – Invited lecture: Deutsch lehren und Deutsch lernen im späten Mittelalter und in der frühen Neuzeit, Faculty of Language, Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Regensburg.
DOCTORAL PROGRAMMES
Member of the Doctoral Board of the PhD Programme in Human Sciences (SUM), University of Ferrara: 35th cycle (2019-2020) – 40th cycle (2024-2025); 42nd cycle (2026-2027).
TEACHING ACTIVITIES IN POSTGRADUATE AND DOCTORAL PROGRAMMES
25 October 2024 – Lecture for the PhD Programme in Human Sciences, University of Ferrara. Lecture title: “L'edizione dei testi settoriali (Fachtexte) del Medioevo germanico”.
24 October 2024 – Lecture for the PhD Programme in Human Sciences, University of Ferrara. Lecture title: “Problemi e metodologie editoriali del codex unicus di area germanica”
16 May 2024 – Lecture for the PhD Programme in Linguistics, University of Verona and Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Lecture title: "Insegnare e imparare il tedesco tra tardo Medioevo e primo Evo moderno”.
2010 – Specialist seminar for the Doctoral School in Text Science, Section of Germanic Philology and Linguistics, coordinated by Prof. Fabrizio D. Raschellà, University of Siena (Arezzo). Lecture title: “Fachliteratur e Fachsprachen: introduzione ai testi tecnico-scientifici medioevali di area tedesca”.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
2023-2025
The Germanic Reception of Lanfranc’s of Milan Chirurgia magna: Critical Edition and Terminological Commentary of the English and German Branches of the Tradition – Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR), PRIN 2022 call (€296,590). Vice-PI and Head of the Ferrara Research Unit (PI: Chiara Benati, University of Genoa).
2023-2024
“Die Münstersche Grammatik. Neudition und Kommentar” – University of Ferrara, FIRD 2023 call. Research team member (PI: Valerio Furneri, University of Ferrara).
2016-2017
Die Münstersche Grammatik. New Edition and Commentary – University of Ferrara, University Research Incentive Fund (FIR) 2016. Principal Investigator.
AWARDS
2012: Award “Piergiuseppe Scardigli” for the monograph Die deutsche Bearbeitung der Epistula Anthimi de observatione ciborum. Edition und Kommentar (Göppingen: Kümmerle Verlag, 2011).
2000: Award for the best thesis in Germanic Philology defended in 1999, awarded by the Associazione Italiana di Filologia Germanica (AIFG).
EDITORIAL AND SCIENTIFIC BOARDS
- Member of the Scientific Board, Diorama medievale book series (Padova University Press) (2025–present)
- Member of the Scientific Board, UnifeStum. Book Series of the Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Ferrara (Mimesis Edizioni) (February 2019-December 2025)
ORGANISATION OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES
2025a
Organiser of the 51st Annual Conference of the Associazione Italiana di Filologia Germanica (AIFG) “Critica del testo e filologia germanica: specificità e problematiche dell’edizione dei testi germanici medievali”, University of Ferrara, 28-30 May 2025.
2025b
Co-organiser of the session “Fourteenth-Century and Later Vernacular Translations and Adaptations of Latin Medical and Surgical Texts”, 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 8-10 May 2025.
2024
Member of the organising committee of the 50th Annual Conference of the Associazione Italiana di Filologia Germanica, “Educazione e formazione nel Medioevo germanico”, Florence, 7-9 February 2024.
2023
Principal Organiser of the session “The Vernacular Translations of Lanfranc of Milan’s Surgical Works,” 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 11-13 May 2023 .
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES
2025
“Filologia e Medicina II. Curare i testi della medicina medievale”, Genova, 16-17 dicembre 2025.
2024a
“La consapevolezza metalinguistica in didattica nel corso dei secoli. Vecchi e nuovi approcci a confronto”, Convegno annuale CIRSIL, Trento, 17-19 ottobre 2024.
2024b
“Scuole scrittorie del Medioevo germanico. XXIV Seminario avanzato in Filologia germanica”, Torino, 16-18 settembre 2024.
2024c
“Miracles and Wonders, Science and Faith in the Pre-Modern Age: The Experience of Transcendence – Reality or Imagination”, 22nd International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Arizona, 3-4 maggio 2024.
2024d
“Educazione e formazione nel medioevo germanico”, 50° Convegno annuale dell’Associazione Italiana di Filologia Germanica (AIFG), Firenze, 7-9 febbraio 2024.
2023a
“More than Words: Lexical Variation and Change across Cultures, Time, and Space”, 13th International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology (ICHLL), Salerno, 27-29 settembre 2023.
2023b
“Textual Transformations I: Translating Medieval Texts Today”, 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 11-13 maggio 2023.
2023c
“Human and Natural Worlds in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time: From Ecocriticism to Pre-Modern Anthropology”, 21st International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Arizona, 28-29 aprile 2023.
2022a
“Traductio et Traditio. La transmissió del saber en l’edat mitjana”, II Congrés Internacional, Universitat d’Alacant/Universidad de Alicante, 6-8 luglio 2022.
2022b
“Food and Health in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: Textual Evidence from the English and German Traditions” (Panel Discussion), 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 9-14 maggio 2022.
2022c
“Globalism and Meeting Foreign Worlds in the Pre-Modern Era”, 20th International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Arizona, 30 aprile-1 maggio 2022.
2022d
Seminario CIRSIL – XX anniversario, Bologna, Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Moderne (LILEC), 28 gennaio 2022.
2018
“Maestri di lingue tra metà Cinquecento e metà Seicento”, Convegno annuale CIRSIL, Università per Stranieri di Siena, 12-13 aprile 2018.
2016
“Dietetica e medicina tra Medioevo e Rinascimento”, Ferrara, 15 aprile 2016.
2015
“Mat i mellomalderen”, Università di Bergen / Bryggens Museum, 3 novembre 2015.
2014
“Aspetti della letteratura tecnica nel Medioevo tedesco”, Ragusa Ibla, 23 maggio 2014 (Hybläer Studientage der Germanistik II / Giornate iblee della germanistica II – Catania – SDS di Lingue e Letterature straniere di Ragusa).
2013a
“Der Koch ist der bessere Arzt - Zum Verhältnis von Diätetik und Kulinarik im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit”, Internationale Tagung veranstaltet vom Institut für Germanistik der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Graz, 20.-22. Juni 2013.
2013b
“Dee, profetesse, regine e altre figure femminili nel Medioevo germanico”, XL Convegno dell’Associazione Italiana di Filologia Germanica, Cagliari, 29-31 maggio 2013.
2009
“I Germani in Tacito. X Seminario avanzato in Filologia germanica”, Torino, 14-18 settembre 2009.
2008
“La letteratura tecnico-scientifica nel Medioevo germanico: Fachliteratur e Gebrauchstexte”, XXXV Convegno dell’Associazione Italiana di Filologia Germanica (AIFG), Perugia, 4-6 giugno 2008.
2007
“Lettura di testi tedeschi medioevali. VIII Seminario avanzato in Filologia germanica”, Torino, 17-21 settembre 2007.
MEMBERSHIPS
Associazione Italiana di Filologia Germanica (since 2001)
Medieval Philology, University of Bergen (since 2014)
Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca sulla Storia degli Insegnamenti Linguistici (CIRSIL) (since 2014).
