Full professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Bologna since 2016. His research activity focuses on Gothic and Lombard languages and literatures; the reception and rewriting of the Germanic cultural tradition in modern and contemporary times; and Germanic cultural aspects within early medieval texts. It also deals with the relations between Germanic culture within the broader context represented by the medieval European world. Analyzes Germanic texts with philological, linguistic and comparative methodologies in order to recover the cultural context in which they were produced and/or copied.
Education
Graduated in Foreign Languages and Literature in 1989 from the University of Verona, in 1994 he obtained a PhD in Germanistics (Germanic Philology) (administrative seat: University of Florence).
Academic career
Since 1995 he has been researcher of Germanic Philology at the University of Padua remaining in service until 1999; in that year he moved to the University of Ferrara becoming, in 2005, associate professor of Germanic Philology. In 2008 he moved to the University of Bologna where he became full professor of Germanic Philology in 2016.
Teaching activities
Since 1995, he has been continuously teaching as the holder of various seminars and teachings for first four-year, then three-year and master's degree courses in both Germanic Philology and Nordic Literature.
He is currently Professor in Germanic Philology and Nordic Literatures for the degree programs in Foreign Languages and Literatures (three-year), Humanities (three-year), and Modern, Comparative and Postcolonial Literatures (master's) at the University of Bologna.
Since the 35th cycle (a.y. 2019/20) he has been a member of the teaching board of the PhD Text Sciences from the Middle Ages to Modernity: Medieval Philologies, Paleography, Romance Studies (Roma La Sapienza)
Scientific activity
She has participated in numerous national and international research programs including PRIN 2002 (2002108943_002): Rewriting and intertextuality: metamorphoses, interferences and reinterpretations of the medieval text; PRIN 2006 (2006105904_005): Composition, transmission and instability of the medieval Germanic text: new criteria and models of edition. He was coordinator, for the University of Ferrara, of the European Thematic Network ACUME2 Interfacing Science & Literature, Subproject 3, Scientific Myth-making, Travelling the World. Scientific Discoveries and Narrative Discourses, Travel Literature (2006-2008). He was a member of the Scientific Committee of the international project Building Europe. Columbanus and his legacy (2012-2015).
Institutional activities and academic appointments
From November 2018 to April 2021, he was deputy director of the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LILEC)
Since 2018, he has been a member of the Research Committee of the (LILEC).
From April 9, 2015 to 2020: Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Library of the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LILEC).
From 03/19/2013 to 02/15/2019: member of the University Quality Presidium of the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna.
From 01/23/2013 to 2018: member of the Seat Joint Teaching Commission - Bologna Seat, School of Languages and Literatures, Translation and Interpretation
From May 2015 to May 2018: vice-director and member of the Board of the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LILEC).
From 2012 to 2015: member of the School Joint Teaching Committee of the School of Languages and Literatures, Translation and Interpretation
From 09/18/2012 to 02/15/2019: member of the University Group for the Quality Assurance of Teaching of the Alma Mater Studiorum -University of Bologna.
From 18.10.2012 to 30.09.2015: vice-coordinator of the Course of Studies in Foreign Languages and Literatures of the School of Languages, Interpreting and Translation of the Alma Mater Studiorum -University of Bologna.
a.y. 2010-11 -2011-12: member of the Working Group on Teaching Quality (Quality Assurance) of the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna.
a.y. 2008-09 - 2011-12: Member of the Joint Teaching Commission of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna and delegated by the Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures to chair the commission.
From November 1, 1998 to October 31, 2000: member of the Board of Directors of the University of Padua.
From November 1, 2003 to October 31, 2005: member of the Research Council of the University of Ferrara.
From November 1, 2003 to October 31, 2005: member of the Board of Directors of the University of Ferrara.
From November 2004 to October 2006: member of the Library Council of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Ferrara.
From September 1, 2005 to October 31, 2006: acting vice-president of the Degree Course in Foreign Languages and Literature
Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Ferrara.
From November 1, 2007 to October 31, 2008: Chair of the Faculty Permanent Working Table for Educational Planning of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of the University of Ferrara.
From November 1, 2007 to October 31, 2008: member of the University Commission for the Electronic Record of Examinations of the University of Ferrara.
Membership in scientific and editorial committees.
Edits the series Texts of the Germanic Middle Ages at the Meltemi publishing house.
He is a member of the scientific committee of the series Medievalismi at Edizioni dell'Orso.
He is a member of the scientific committee of the Borealia series of Pisa University Press.
He has been a member of the editorial board of the international journal "Ri.L.Un.E." since 2014.
He was coordinator of the scientific committee of the first issue of the journal "Filologia Germanica / Germanic Philology" (2009); from 2009 to the end of 2014 he was a member of the editorial board of the journal "Filologia Germanica / Germanic Philology". Other activities
From 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2014, he is an advisory member of the board of the Italian Association of Germanic Philology (A.I.F.G.)
Since 1.1.2021 he has been president of the Italian Association of Germanic Philology