The Faculty Council of the PhD Programme includes distinguished professors and researchers active in their field of study.
LITERARY CURRICULUM
- L-FIL-LET/14 Literary Criticism and Comparative Literatures:
Stefano Brugnolo (PO) - L-FIL-LET/15 Germanic philology
Marco BattagliaMarco Battaglia (marco.battaglia@unipi.it; Orcid: 0000-0002-1069-2034) is Full Professor of Germanic Philology and Nordic Literatures at the University of Pisa. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Studi Germanici at the IISG – Rome and Chief-editor of the journal Filologia germanica – Germanic Philology. His main research interests are the relationship between ‘barbarians’ and the classical world, Germanic mythology and law, Old Norse literature and the Nibelung-Volsungic cycle, Medievalism, and the role of Germanic myths in the construction of national identities.
- L-LIN/03 French Literature:
Gianni IottiAntonietta SannaAntonietta Sanna (antonietta.sanna@unipi.it; ORCID: 0000-0002-7563-0045) enseigne la Littérature française à l’Université de Pise. Elle a conduit des recherches sur le théâtre du XVIIe siècle, sur la littérature du XIXe et du XXe siècles. Elle a publié de nombreux essais sur l’œuvre de Paul Valéry ainsi que sur ses inédits. Elle s’est intéressée à la réception de l’œuvre écrite de Léonard en France du XVIIIe au XXe siècles. Membre de l’Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes/ENS – CNRS, elle travaille sur la critique génétique, la numérisation des sciences humaines et le multilinguisme dans la création littéraire. Actuellement elle collabore à l’édition italienne des œuvres de Stéphane Mallarmé.Antonietta Sanna teaches French literature at the University of Pisa. She has conducted research into seventeenth-century theatre and nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. She has published numerous essays on the work of Paul Valéry and his unpublished works. She has studied the reception of Leonardo’s written work in France from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. A member of the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes/ENS – CNRS, she works on genetic criticism, the digitisation of the humanities and multilingualism in literary creation. She is currently working on the Italian edition of the works of Stéphane Mallarmé.Barbara SommovigoBarbara Sommovigo (barbara.sommovigo@unipi.it; ORCID: 0000-0001-9583-657X) is an Associate Professor of French Literature. Her research activity primarily focuses on two distinct lines: French comic theater from the late 17th century to the first half of the 18th century, and, in the domain of French-language literatures, she is interested in Algerian literature in French (with a focus on female writing). - L-LIN/05 Spanish Literature:
Ignacio ArellanoIgnacio Arellano (iarellano@unav.es; ORCID: 0000-0002-3386-3668) is a Full Professor at the University of Navarra. He has founded several specialized journals and book series on the Golden Age. He is a member of the scientific committees of numerous journals in the field (Criticón, ÍNSULA, Edad de Oro, Rivista di Filologia e Letteratura Ispaniche…), and he served as the Secretary-General of the Asociación Internacional Siglo de Oro from 1990 to 1996 and as its President from 1996 to 1999. Currently, he holds the honorary position of President of the same association. He has published around 200 books and over 400 scientific articles, most of which focus on the Golden Age.Catedrático de la Universidad de Navarra. Fundador de varias revistas y colecciones especializadas en el Siglo de Oro. Miembro de los consejos de numerosas revistas de la especialidad (Criticón, ÍNSULA, Edad de Oro, Rivista di Filologia e Letteratura Ispaniche…). Secretario General de la Asociación Internacional Siglo de Oro (1990-1996) y Presidente de la misma (1996-1999). Actual presidente de honor de esta asociación. Ha publicado unos 200 libros y más de 400 artículos científicos, la mayoría sobre el Siglo de Oro.Federica CappelliFederica Cappelli (federica.cappelli@unipi.it; ORCID: 0000-0002-9720-9374) teaches Spanish Literature at the University of Pisa. She mainly investigates the literature of the Golden Age and the work, in prose and verse, of Quevedo, as well as its reception and transmission. She also studies the Golden Age theater (critical editions of plays by Mira de Amescua and Lope de Vega) and the minor picaresque: she is the author of the first complete Italian translation of Espinel’s Marcos de Obregón (2011). She is also interested in the narrative of the Spanish Republican exile and especially in the work of Aub and Sender; in this field of research, she wrote several essays, an anthology of exile short stories translations (2008) and the Italian translation of Relatos fronterizos (2014) and El fugitivo (2018), both by Sender.Federica Cappelli es profesora de Literatura Española en la Universidad de Pisa. Sus investigaciones se han centrado principalmente en la literatura del Siglo de Oro y, en particular, en la obra, tanto en prosa como en verso, de Quevedo, así como en su recepción y transmisión. Se ha ocupado también de teatro del siglo XVII, con ediciones críticas de obras de Mira de Amescua y Lope de Vega, y de la picaresca menor: es suya la primera traducción integral al italiano de la Vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón de Espinel (2011). También se interesa por la narrativa del exilio republicano y especialmente por la obra de Aub y Sender, ámbito en el que ha publicado numerosos ensayos, una antología de traducciones italianas de cuentos (2008) y la traducción al italiano de Relatos fronterizos (2014) y El fugitivo (2018) de Sender.
Enrico Di PastenaEnrico Di Pastena (enrico.dipastena@unipi.it; ORCID: 0000-0002-7313-7759) is Full Professor of Spanish Literature and member of the Steering Committee of the select Research Group Prolope (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), co-editor of the journal Anuario Lope de Vega. Texto, Literatura, Cultura and director of the contemporary theatre series La maschera e il volto. He has made critical editions of plays by L. de Vega, A. Moreto and J. Pérez de Montalbán. He is the author of studies about Siglo de oro drama, naturalistic novel and contemporary poetry. He has traduced in Italian language works by di A. Moreto, L. Alas “Clarín”, F. García Lorca and J. Mayorga, among others.Enrico Di Pastena es Catedrático de Literatura Española y miembro del Comité Directivo del Grupo de Excelencia Prolope (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), codirector del Anuario Lope de Vega. Texto, Literatura, Cultura y director de la colección bilingüe de teatro contemporáneo La maschera e il volto. Ha realizado ediciones críticas de obras de L. de Vega, A Moreto y J. Pérez de Montalbán. Es autor de estudios sobre teatro áureo y contemporáneo, novela decimonónica y poesía contemporánea. Ha traducido al italiano textos de A. Moreto, L. Alas “Clarín”, F. García Lorca y J. Mayorga, entre otros.Daniela PierucciDaniela Pierucci (daniela.pierucci@unipi.it) teaches Spanish literature. She trained at the University of Pisa where she holds the position of associate professor in the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics. In the past she carried out studies on the comic literature of the Golden Age and the eighteenth century; for several years she has devoted herself to the study of Restoration fiction (of which she translated two novels) and Romantic poetry.Daniela Pierucci enseña Literatura Española. Se formó en la Universidad de Pisa, donde ocupa el cargo de profesora titular en el Departamento de Filología, Literatura y Lingüística. En el pasado ha realizado estudios sobre la literatura cómica del Siglo de Oro y del siglo XVIII; desde hace años se dedica al estudio de la ficción de la Restauración (de la cual ha traducido dos novelas) y la poesía romántica.
- L-LIN/06 Hispano-American Language and Literatures:
Alessandra GhezzaniAlessandra Ghezzani (alessandra.ghezzani@unipi.it; ORCID: 0000-0002-5754-9964) teaches Hispano-American Literature at the University of Pisa. Her research interests are on modern and contemporary Spanish-American narrative, representation of cultural processes in essays and chronicles of the 19th century, essay argumentation, and fictional procedures. She has investigated the work of Rubén Darío and has translated his Raros for the first time in Italy (ETS, 2012). Concerning with most recent narrative, in addition to several articles on J. Cortázar, A. Carpentier, R. Arenas, Cabrera Infante, C. Peri Rossi, she studied extensively the work of Borges and published the monographs Borges critico letterario. Strutture e procedimenti discorsivi (ETS, 2008) y Leggere Borges (Carocci, 2023).Alessandra Ghezzani enseña Literatura Hispanomericana en la Universidad de Pisa. Sus intereses se concentran en la narrativa hispanoamericana moderna y contemporánea, la representación de los procesos culturales en los ensayos y las crónicas del siglo XIX, la argumentación ensayística y los procedimientos ficcionales. Ha investigado la obra de Rubén Darío y ha traducido por primera vez en Italia sus Raros (ETS, 2012). Con respecto a la narrativa más reciente,además de varios artículos sobre J. Cortázar, A. Carpentier, R. Arenas, Cabrera Infante, C. Peri Rossi, ha estudiado detenidamente la obra de Borges y ha publicado las monografías Borges critico letterario. Strutture e procedimenti discorsivi (ETS, 2008) y Leggere Borges (Carocci, 2023). - L-LIN/08 Portuguese and Brasilian Literature:
Clara RowlandClara Rowland (clararowland@gmail.com; ORCID: 0000-0002-7530-0935) is an associate professor of Brazilian Literature at the Universidade Nova in Lisbon and a member of the IELT Research Centre. She conducts research mainly in the field of comparative studies, focusing on issues of representation and materiality in modern literature and cinema. She is the author of, among others, A forma do meio: livro e narração em Guimarães Rosa (2011), Falso Movimento: ensaios sobre escrita e cinema (2016).Valeria ToccoValeria Tocco (valeria.tocco@unipi.it; ORCID: 0000-0002-2776-2094) is full Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Literature at Pisa University. She works on literature from the 16th-17th centuries (e.g., Camões) to the 20th century (e.g., Pessoa, Almada Negreiros). She is also dedicated to translation studies and translation (she won two literary transaltion prizes). She is the author of, among others, the annotated edition of Os Lusíadas (2001) and Breve storia della letteratura portoghese dalle origini ai giorni nostri (2011).
- L-LIN/10 English Literature:
Nicoletta CaputoNicoletta Caputo (nicoletta.caputo@unipi.it; ORCID: 0000-0002-3675-5435) teaches English Literature at the University of Pisa. She holds a PhD in English Studies from the Universities of Pisa and Florence, and she has been Folger Shakespeare Library Research Fellow. She has published articles and a volume on Tudor drama (Playing with Power, 1998); essays on Shakespeare, on nineteenth-century stage history, on Romantic fiction and on contemporary English theatre and fiction (on Angela Carter, on Martin Amis and on feminist rewritings of history), as well as a monograph on Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus (New Wine in Old Bottles, 2010). Her volume Richard III as a Romantic Icon: Textual, Cultural and Theatrical Appropriations was published in 2018 in Peter Lang’s series “Romantic Studies. Theories and Practices”.
Fausto CiompiFausto Ciompi (fausto.ciompi@unipi.it; ORCID: 0000-0002-7014-8807) is Associate Professor at the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics (University of Pisa), where he teaches English Literature and Contemporary English Literature. He co-edits Synergies: A Journal of English Literature and Cultures and Soglie. Rivista Quadrimestrale di Poesia e Critica Letteraria. He has been involved in various research projects including “The Reception of Conrad in Italy”, as part of the European project The Reception of British and Irish authors in Europe, coordinated by Professor Elinor Shaffer (University of London). His areas of research include Romantic poetry, modernism, contemporary English literature, postcolonial literature, the fiction of Joseph Conrad and the poetry of T.S. Eliot. Among his publications: Mondo e dizione. La poesia in Gran Bretagna e Irlanda dal 1945 a oggi (ETS, 2007), Conrad: Nichilismo e alterità (ETS, 2012) and T.S. Eliot: il sangue e l’inchiostro. Una biografia poetica e intellettuale (Carocci, 2024)
Nathalie CochoyRoberta FerrariRoberta Ferrari (roberta.ferrari@unipi.it; ORCID: 0000-0001-6145-0222) is Professor of English Literature at Pisa University Her research interests range from 18th-century literature to Modernism and Postmodernism. She has published volumes and essays on the beginnings of female professional writing, the early 18th-century novel, Gothic fiction, the Romantic essay, contemporary drama and narrative. She has also devoted specific attention to the study of travel literature and to Anglo-Italian cultural relations.
Laura GiovannelliLaura Giovannelli (laura.giovannelli@unipi.it; ORCID: 0000-0001-7439-520X) is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics, University of Pisa. She co-edits the scientific journal Synergies: A Journal of English Literatures and Cultures and the book series InCarnations. Studi e prospettive sull’Ottocento britannico (ETS). She is also part of the Editorial Board of the annual journal Inerba. Primi passi nei testi and a founding member and vice-president of the Italian Oscar Wilde Society (IOWS). Her research fields cover British Aestheticism, Wildean Studies, Anglo-American Modernism, Postmodernism, Ecocriticism, and postcolonial literature. She is the author of more than one hundred studies, which have appeared in national as well as international contexts. Among her books are Nadine Gordimer (2013), “A Green Thought in a Green Shade”: Immaginario letterario e ambiente (2020, co-edited with Roberta Ferrari), and Wilde World. Una tavola rotonda su Oscar Wilde (2022, co-edited with Pierpaolo Martino).
Etta MaddenBiancamaria RizzardiSara SonciniSara Francesca Soncini (sara.soncini@unipi.it; ORCID: 0000-0002-6680-5202) is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Pisa. Her main research interests lie in contemporary British and Irish drama, Shakespeare’s afterlife (performances, translations, adaptations), Restoration and 18th-century theatre culture. She is the author of Playing with(in) the Restoration, on modern-day revisions of Restoration drama (ESI 1999), Forms of Conflict: Contemporary Wars on the British Stage (University of Exeter Press 2015), Le metamorfosi di Sarah Kane: 4.48 Psychosis sulle scene italiane (Pisa University Press 2020) and, more recently, The School for Scandal. Superfici, (Mimesis 2022; with S. Greenup). Her edited volumes include Myths of Europe (Rodopi, 2007), Crossing Time and Space: Shakespeare Translations in Present-Day Europe (Plus 2008) and Shakespeare and Conflict: A European Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan 2013).
- L-LIN/13 German Literature:
Alessandro FambriniAlessandro Fambrini (alessandro.fambrini@unipi.it; ORCID: 0000-0001-9520-1574): Born in Seravezza (LU), on September the 8th 1960. Academic Training: Master in Languages with Summa cum laude (Laurea in Lingue), University of Pisa, 1984; PHD in German Language and Literature, University of Pavia 1993;Post-Doc Fellowship, University of Turin 1993-1994: 1995: Assistant Professor of German Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Trento; 1998: Founding editor and chair of Osservatorio critico della Germanistica; 2000: title of Associate Professor of German Language and Literature; Associate Professor of German Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Trento; 2004-2005: Chair of the Graduation course (“Corso di laurea”) in Modern Languages and Literatures; July 2010: Ordinary degree; 2014: Full Professor of German Literature at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Trento; 2015: Ordinary Professor of German Literature at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Pisa.
Serena GrazziniSerena Grazzini (serena.grazzini@unipi.it; ORCID: 0000-0003-1765-9576) is Professor of German Literature at the University of Pisa and Co-Editor of the literary journal literatur für leser:innen (until 2022 literatur für leser). She has studied at the University of Pisa and Tübingen. She awarded a first doctorate in German Studies at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg and a second doctorate in Cultural Memory and European Tradition in Pisa. She has been Research Fellow at the universities of Halle-Wittenberg, Regensburg and Mainz, where she afterwards taught German-language literature for three semesters. Her published books and articles focus on German-speaking literature from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, on the relationship between literature and culture, and on the pathetic grotesque as a figure of modernity. She also works on Jewish-German literature, on mythology, reception studies and literary theory. More information can be found here.Serena Grazzini ist Professorin für Deutsche Literatur an der Universität Pisa (Italien) und Mitherausgeberin der germanistischen Zeitschrift literatur für leser:innen (bis 2022 literatur für leser). Sie hat an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg und an der Universität Pisa promoviert. Ihr Forschungsinteresse richtet sich historisch auf die Epochen vom Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegewart, theoretisch auf Literatur und Kultur, literarische Komik und Mythologie. Die Schwerpunkte ihrer Veröffentlichungen liegen auf der deutschsprachigen Literatur des 19. und des 20. Jahrhunderts (u.a. Büchner, Musil, Johnson, Handke), deutschsprachig-jüdischen Autor:innen (u.a. Hildesheimer, P. Weiss, Kafka), auf Mythenforschung, literarischer Komik und Poetiken des Widerspruchs, dem Heimat-Diskurs in der Literatur vom Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts bis heute sowie auf literaturtheoretischen Paradigmen (u.a. Strukturalismus und Kulturwissenschaften). Weitere Infos zur Person und zur Forschung finden Sie hier.
Jörg RobertFrancesco RossiFrancesco Rossi (francesco.rossi@unipi.it; ORCID: 0000-0003-4724-0151) is Associate Professor of German Literature at the University of Pisa. He has collaborated with several international research institutes and has been Humboldt-Fellow. His research concerns the German 18th century, the classical-romantic, modern and contemporary literature, translation studies, the theory and history of literary and non-fiction genres, the Italian-German literary transfer. His publications include : Gesamterkennen (Würzburg 2011) e L’età romantica Letteratura tedesca tra Rivoluzione e Restaurazione (Roma 2023).Francesco Rossi ist Assoziierter Professor für deutsche Literatur an der Universität Pisa. Er hat mit mehreren internationalen Forschungsinstituten zusammengearbeitet und war Humboldt-Stipendiat. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind das deutsche 18. Jahrhundert, die Klassik, die Romantik, die Moderne, die Gegenwartsliteratur, Übersetzungsforschung, Theorie und Geschichte der literarischen und essayistischen Gattungen, der italienisch-deutsche Literaturtransfer. Zu seinen Veröffentlichungen gehören: Gesamterkennen (Würzburg 2011) und L’età romantica Letteratura tedesca tra Rivoluzione e Restaurazione (Roma 2023).
- L-LIN/17 Romanian Language and Literature:
Emilia DavidEmilia David (emilia.david@unipi.it; ORCID: 0000-0003-2943-3873) is Associate Professor in Romanian Language and Literature at the University of Pisa. She received in 2006 a PhD in Italian Literature at the University of Turin, which focuses on the relationship of the Romanian avant-garde with Futurism and with Dadaism, and in 2015 she obtained a PhD in Romanian Studies, after a joint doctoral programme and PhD thesis carried out at the Universities of Bucharest and Turin, which explores as a main topic the poetry of the “’80 Generation” and, in particular, the Matei Vişniec poeticity, as well as the bilingualism of his theater and its reception in France. She has dedicated five monographs to these themes and several essays to other representatives of the Romanian literary exile: Norman Manea e Herta Müller.Emilia David predă Limba și Literatura Română la Universitatea din Pisa în calitate de Conferențiar Dr. deține un Doctorat în Literatură Italiană obținut la Universitatea din Torino (2006) și dedicat relațiilor culturale ale avangardei românești cu futurismul și dadaismul, iar în 2015 a obținut un doctorat în Studii românești, realizat în cotutelă la Universitățile din București și din Torino, aprofundând poezia Generației 80 și, în special, poetica lui Matei Vișniec, precum și bilingvismul teatrului său și receptarea acestuia în Franța. A dedicat acestor teme cinci studii monografice și mai multe articole științifice altor reprezentanți ai exilului literar românesc: Norman Manea și Herta Müller.
- L-LIN/21 Slavonic studies:
- Francesca RomoliFrancesca Romoli (francesca.romoli@unipi.it; ORCID: 0000-0003-4994-7062) is Associate Professor of Slavistics at the University of Pisa. She graduated cum laude from the University of Florence and received her PhD from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. She has worked at the Universities of Florence, Urbino, Bari and Milan. Her research focuses on Eastern Slavic literary civilisation from the origins up to the 16th century. She has participated as a speaker in over 40 conferences in Italy and abroad and is the author of over 80 publications.Франческа Ромоли – доцент кафедры славистики Пизанского университета. Она окончила Флорентийский университет с отличием и получила степень доктора философии в Римском университете «Ла Сапиенца». Работала в университетах Флоренции, Урбино, Бари и Милана. Ее исследования посвящены восточнославянской литературной цивилизации от истоков до XVI в. Она участвовала в качестве докладчика в более чем 40 конференциях в Италии и за рубежом и является автором более 80 публикаций.Marco SabbatiniMarco Sabbatini(marco.sabbatini@unipi.it; ORCID: 0000-0002-8837-6592) teaches Russian Literature and Culture at the University of Pisa (Department of Philology Literature and Linguistics). Ph.D. in Slavic Studies at the University of Rome, La Sapienza (XVI cycle), Post-doc at the University of Salerno (2004), from 2004 to 2007 he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Perugia and Macerata (2004-2007). He was a Researcher at the University of Macerata (2007-2017). His research interests concern Russian Literature, Culture and History. He is a specialist of XX century Russian Literature (poetics and theory), Russo-Italian cultural emigration and relations. He is author of several Italian translation, such us Viktor Krivulin, Concerto a richiesta (2016), and of essays and books about Samizdat, Soviet culture and Unofficial literature (Viktor Nekrasov e l’Italia, 2018; Leningrado underground. Testi, poetiche, samizdat, 2020). He is the scientific coordinator of the book series “Masterskaja 20”, and the scientific co-editor of the Research project Free Voices in the Ussr.
LINGUISTIC CURRICULUM
- L-LIN/01 Glottology and Linguistics: Diego Ardoino, Francisco Javier Ballester Gomez, Philippe Blache, Silvia Calamai, Pietro U. Dini, Rosangela Lai, Alessandro Lenci, Giovanna Marotta, Andrea Nuti, Sebastian Padó, Daniel Alain Petit, Domenica Romagno, Francesco Rovai
- L-LIN/02 Educational Linguistics: Francesca Gallina
- L-LIN/04 French Language and Linguistics: Lorella Sini
- L-LIN/07 Spanish Language and Linguistics: Rosa María García Jiménez, Selena Simonatti
- L-LIN/09 Portuguese and Brasilian Language and Linguistics: Monica Lupetti
- L-LIN/12 English Language and Linguistics: Silvia Bruti, Gloria Cappelli, Belinda Crawford, Denise Filmer, Elisa Mattiello
- L-LIN/14 German Language and Linguistics: Christian Fandrych, Marina Foschi, Marianne Hepp, Patrizio Malloggi
- L-LIN/21 Slavonic studies: Viktoria Lazareva