PhD in ITALIAN STUDIES AND ART HISTORY

email: roberto.rea@uniroma2.it
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Roberto Rea is a Full Professor of Italian Literature Philology (L-FIL-LET/13) at the University of Tor Vergata in Rome, where he teaches Italian Literature Philology and Dante Philology for undergraduate and graduate courses. In the spring of 2023, he was a Fulbright Chair Distinguished Lecturer at the University of Chicago.
He has been the coordinator of the PhD program in Italian Studies and Art History since 2024 and the Head of Research at the Department of Literary, Philosophical, and Art History Studies.
He leads as Principal Investigator the biennial PRIN 2022 project "Texts of Uncertain Authorship in Thirteenth-century Italian Lyric Poetry. Methods, Practices, and Tools of Attributive Philology."
He has participated in numerous international conferences and given invited lectures at various institutions and universities in Italy and abroad, including the University of Chicago; University of Notre Dame; Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa; Columbia University; New York University; Accademia dei Lincei; Oxford University; St. Andrews University; Universidade de Santiago de Compostela; Université Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Rivista di Studi Danteschi; the Editorial Board of Cognitive Philology; the Scientific Committee of Critica del Testo; the Scientific Committee of the Centro Pio Rajna; the Scientific and Educational Council of the ICoN Consortium, Italian Culture on the Net; the Scientific Committee of the Center for Medieval Poetry Studies at the Sapienza University of Rome; the Roman Philological Society; and the Board of Directors of the Society of Italian Literature Philologists.
He has published numerous articles and essays on medieval lyric poetry, from the troubadours to Petrarch, on Dante's Vita Nuova and Commedia, on Leopardi's Canti, and on Montale's Danteism. He is the author of the volumes: Studi leopardiani (with Giorgio Brugnoli, Pisa, ETS, 2001); Stilnovismo cavalcantiano e tradizione cortese (Rome, Bagatto, 2007); Cavalcanti poeta. Uno studio sul lessico lirico (Rome, Nuova Cultura, 2008); the annotated edition of Guido Cavalcanti's Rime (with Giorgio Inglese, Rome, Carocci, 2011); the critical edition of Lapo Gianni's Rime (Rome, Salerno Editrice, 2019); the monograph Dante: guida alla Vita nuova (Rome, Carocci, 2020). He also edited the volumes Dal paesaggio all'ambiente. Sentimento della natura nella tradizione poetica italiana (Rome, Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2020) and Dante (with Justin Steinberg; Rome, Carocci, 2020).