PhD in CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY AND ITS RECEPTION: ARCHAEOLOGY,
PHILOLOGY, HISTORY

Francesca Romana Nocchi is RTDB in Latin Language and Literature (L-FIL-LET/04) at the Department of Literary, Philosophical and Art History Studies at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’.

She graduated in Latin Literature at the ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome. She obtained her PhD in Classical Philology and Ancient History (‘Sapienza’ University of Rome), as well as a second PhD in History, Literature and Territory (‘University of Cassino and Southern Lazio’). She specialised in education in the ancient world at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, obtaining a two-year postgraduate degree in ‘The Teaching of Latin Language and Culture’. She is a member of the editorial boards of Rationes Rerum. Rivista di Filologia e Storia (Edizioni Tored) and the Editorial Series ‘Classici latini per l'Università’ (Bologna University Press). She has participated as a speaker at various national and international conferences, held seminars at Italian and foreign universities, and organised Study Conferences. She has taught in the TFA and PAS Latin Language and Literature courses. She obtained the National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor in SSD - 10/D3 - Latin Language and Literature, as well as the Qualification aux fonctions de Maître de Conférences au titre de la Section 8 – Langues et Littératures Anciennes. Her interests centre on three areas that are complementary:

1) Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria, Latin declamation and education in antiquity;

2) epigrammatic poetry from the Republican to Imperial periods;

3) Late Antique poetry and its connections with rhetorical education.

She has published various monographs, contributions in scientific journals and collected works.

Her essays include ‘Tecniche teatrali e formazione dell’oratore in Quintiliano’ (De Gruyter 2013); ‘Commento agli Epigrammata Bobiensia’ (De Gruyter 2016); ‘Quintiliano. Modelli pedagogici e pratiche didattiche’ (Morcelliana 2020). Together with Antonio Stramaglia she has edited the publication of M. Winterbottom’s ‘Scritti Minori’ (Papers on Quintilian and Ancient Declamation, Oxford University Press 2019).

She actively participates in international projects. In particular, she is a member of the ‘Groupe International de Recherche sur la Poésie de l’Antiquité tardive et du Moyen-Âge’ - GIRPAM, an international network of universities, headed by the Universities of Strasbourg and Lyon, that deals with the literary production of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, from the 4^th to the 15^th century. She is also a member of the Laboratoire ‘Centre de Recherche sur la Littérature des Voyages’ (CRLV), under the direction of Sylvie Requemora, Université Aix-Marseille.