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

Academic position:

-          Competition Sector: 10/D3 – Lingua e letteratura latina (Latin Language and Literature)

-          Scientific-discipline Sector: L-Fil-Let/04 – Lingua e letteratura latina (Latin Language and Literature).

 

Role seniority: 37 years;

after University of Rome “Tor Vergata“ degree in Latin Literature (1985, highest honor cum laude), from 1987 to 2012: Research Fellow with tenure (Ricercatrice confermata);

since the 21 December 2012: Associate Professor (Prof. Associato) of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”;

since 2020, qualified as full Professor for the sector of Latin Language and Literature;

from 2012 Member of the Doctoral School in “Studi Umanistici”, now “Antichità classiche e loro fortuna”.

University and Departments:

University of Rome “Tor Vergata”:

-          Department of “Lingue e letterature moderne e comparate”;

-          Department of “Antichità e tradizione classica”;

-          Department of “Studi Umanistici”;

-          Department of “Studi letterari, filosofici e di storia dell'arte”.

 

She has taught History of Latin Language, Latin Language, Latin Philology and Classical Tradition in Modern Literatures.

Her studies concern Latin Literature, mainly of Late Antiquity and Comparative Literature.

She has to her credit numerous publications which concern in particular the Latin poetry of late antiquity with specific reference to Ausonius, Claudianus, Rutilius Namatianus, the Anthologia Latina, the Peruigilium Veneris, Dracontius.

She has participated as a speaker at numerous conferences.

 

Her books include:

Didone mascherata. Per il codice genetico di Emma Bovary, ETS (1996);

‘Terei puellae’: metamorfosi latine, ETS (2007);

‛Simulacra amoris’ − Percorsi intertestuali, NEA (2008);

Decimo Magno Ausonio, Hepitaphia heroum, a cura di T. Privitera, ETS (2019).