Angela Tarantino graduated in Lingua e Letteratura rumena at Sapienza, Università di Roma. She was awarded her Ph.D. in “Filologia romanza e italiana” in 1990; since 2002 she has been Associate Professor in Lingua e Letteratura rumena (2002-2013 Università di Firenze; dal 2013 presso Sapienza-Università di Roma).
She in particularly interested in Medieval and Modern Rumanian Literature, in particular the age of its first modernization, on which she has published widely.
She translated poetry and narrative, both modern and contemporary.
From 2016 to 2018 she was President of the Associazione Italiana di Romenistica (AIR).
She has been directing the periodical “Romània Orientale” since 2015.