Phd in PHILOLOGY AND HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT
WORLD

email: angela.cinalli@uniroma1.it
phone:
building: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, II piano
room: L-057

Angela Cinalli is a is a Researcher in Greek Language and Literature (Rtd-B, HELL-01/B) at Sapienza University.
She graduated from the University of "G. D’Annunzio" of Chieti in 2005 and earned her Ph.D. in Philology and History of the Ancient World from Sapienza University in 2012. She further specialized in Greek Paleography at the Vatican School of Paleography, Diplomatics, and Archival Studies.
Cinalli was awarded a research fellowship at the École Française d’Athènes and held postdoctoral research positions at the Center for Epigraphical and Paleographical Studies at The Ohio State University (2013) and the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University (2014). Her collaboration with the CHS at Harvard continued beyond the initial postdoctoral appointment and laid the foundation for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship (PTANOIS POSIN project, no. 843186), conducted between April 2020 and March 2023 in cooperation between the Department of Ancient Sciences at Sapienza and the Center for Hellenic Studies.
In 2021, she was awarded the National Scientific Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) for Associate Professorship (II Fascia) in Greek Language and Literature (Bando D.D. 2175/2018, Sector 10/D2, L-FIL-LET/02), with unanimous approval by the examining committee.
Cinalli serves as a peer reviewer for several academic journals and research institutions, including Greek and Roman Musical Studies, Mnemosyne, Rivista di Filologia Antica e Medievale, and Axon.
Her principal line of research—developed within the framework of the MSCA-IF-GF project and also supported by the AIEGL Géza Alföldy Research Award (2018)—focuses on the performative arts and itinerant literature of the Hellenistic period. Through epigraphic sources, her work aims to reconstruct a significant yet largely submerged chapter in the cultural and literary history of the ancient world. On these themes, she has authored numerous contributions, including the monograph ΠΤΑΝΟΙΣ ΠΟΣΙΝ. Poeti vaganti, intellettuali e musici del periodo ellenistico, I. Delo e le Cicladi («Quaderni dei Seminari Romani di Cultura Greca» 31, Quasar ed., 2022), which was awarded the sixth edition of the “Giancarlo Susini Prize” promoted by Epigraphica. Periodico internazionale di epigrafia.
She is currently preparing the second volume of the project, focused on itinerant cultural expressions of the Hellenistic period attested at the sanctuary of Delphi. Additional studies on performance practices and spaces, textual preservation, cultural memory transmission, and ancient music have recently been published or are forthcoming. Her research on ancient music also benefits from musical training at the Conservatorio “S. Cecilia” in Rome.
Further research interests, developed through fieldwork and collaborative projects, concern epigraphic practices and funerary culture in Cyrene and Cyprus. Cinalli has contributed several studies and published inscriptions resulting from recent discoveries and surveys carried out within the archaeological missions of the University of "G. D'Annunzio" of Chieti in Cyrenaica and Cyprus.
In 2015, she published the monograph Τὰ ξένια. La cerimonia ufficiale di ospitalità cittadina (Collana Studi e Ricerche 27, Studi Umanistici – Antichistica, Sapienza University Press, Rome).