Phd in CIVILIZATIONS OF ASIA AND AFRICA

email: federica.casalin@uniroma1.it
phone: 0688378040
building: Complesso Marco Polo
room: 326

Education
• 09/2005-08/2007: Post-PhD position with fellowship;
• 11/2001-07/2005: PhD with scholarship at Sapienza University of Rome;
• 07/2001: Bachelor degree in Oriental Languages and Civilizations (110 with honours).

Qualifications and Appointments
• 01/2021-01/2024: Coordinator of the Doctoral program in Civilizations of Asia and Africa, Sapienza;
• 05/2021: National Scientific Qualification (ASN) as Full Professor, Sector 10/N3;
• Since 02/2021: Member of the Scientific Board of the 2nd level Master in Specialized Translation at the Department “Italian Institute of Oriental Studies (ISO)” (hereafter ISO), Sapienza;
• Since 03/2020: Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at ISO;
• 11/2014-11/2015: Scientific coordinator of Sapienza’s working unit for the National Training Program for Teachers of Chinese at Secondary Schools (TFA) (2nd edition);
• 11/2012-11/2013: Scientific coordinator of the Sapienza working unit TFA (1st edition);
• 09/2014: National Scientific Qualification (ASN) as Associate Professor, sector 10/N3;
• Since 03/2007: Long-term Researcher (L-OR/21).

Fellowships and Scholarships
• 08/2016-12/2016: Residential fellowship, Center for Chinese Studies, Taipei. Project: "Information Channels in Late Qing China: exploring the dissemination of information about Italy in the Chinese sources published from 1859 to 1911";
• 10/2009-12/2009: Residential fellowship, Center for Chinese Studies, Taipei. Project: "Rome in Chinese Sources";
• 09/2005-08/2007: Post-Ph.D Fellowship, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Taiwan; project: “The Introduction of Western Economic Thought in China and its Impact on the Formation of Modern Chinese Lexicon (1818-1898)”;
• 09/1999-07/2001: Scholarship of the Government of the People's Republic of China to study at People's University in Beijing;
• 09/1995-06/2000: scholarship for merit at the University College "Lamaro Pozzani" of the National Federation of the Knights of Labor;
• 07/1994: Scholarship from the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa for a one-week pre-university orientation course in Cortona (AR).

Research Grants:
a) as Principal Investigator:
- 09/2022-12/2023: PI of the project "Teaching Chinese Literature in Italy (ILeCI): materials, methods, experiences and perspectives" (conference held on 3-4 February 2023)
- 11/2019-05/2023: PI, “Forgotten Classics: the Italian Translation of Pre-Imperial and Imperial Chinese Literature between 1845 and 1945” (2019–21), financed by the Research Call Program of Sapienza, hereafter shortened to RCPS (team: 3 p.);
- 09/2019: Project director of the international conference “Visions of 'Humanity' and 'Letters'. Chinese Culture and the Two Tides of Western Learning, from the Late Ming to Early Modern Times" (Sapienza 02-03/09/2020), with a competitive grant from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation (Taiwan, 22.700€) and the co-financing of Sapienza, Academia Sinica, Kansai University, Nanjing University, National Cheng-chi University.
- 11/2015-11/2017: PI, “Italy during the Great War seen through the Pages of the Chinese Periodical Press (1915–18)”, financed by RCPS (team: 4 p.).
- 11/2014-1/2015: PI of the project “The Reign of Italy in the intellectual and journalistic debate at the end of the Qing Dynasty (1900-1911)”, financed by RCPS (team: 3 p.).
- 11/2012-11/2013: PI of the project “Images of Italy in the Late Qing Sources”), financed by RCPS (team: 3 p.);
- 10/2010-11/2012: Partner Project Coordinator of the European Project “EBCL - European Benchmark for Chinese Language” for Sapienza, Lifelong Learning Programme, project n° 2010-4147. Financed by EACEA of the European Commission (grant reference: 511644-UK-KA2MP).
- 11/2010-11/2011: PI of the project “The History of the Diplomatic Relationships between the Reign of Italy and the Qing Dynasty”, with Naples CNR, financed by the RCPS (team: 5 p.).

B) as a component:
- 11/2020-11-2023: “The Oriental School of Rome: History, Figures, Cultural Scene, Manuscript and Book Collections”, financed by the RCPS; PI: Bruno Lo Turco.
- 11/2017-11/2020: "Libri di viaggio e reportage: Immagini e stereotipi dell'Italia nella produzione odeporica e giornalistica cinese tra il 1866 e il 1928", financed by the RCPS; PI: Alessandra Brezzi.

Editorial Boards and Referee Experience
Since 2014: Editorial board of the bilingual journal Confucius Institute, Chinese-Italian edition
Since 2013: Editorial board of Rivista degli Studi Orientali (Journal of Oriental Studies), Class A.
2020-2022: blind reviewer for “Sulla via del Catai” (Class A); “InVerbis” (Class A); “Annali di Ca’ Foscari (Class A).

Memberships:
2011-2015: Treasurer and Member of the Board of the Italian Association of Chinese Studies
Since 2010: Counsellor of the “World Scholarly Association for the History of Chinese Language Teaching”
Since 2005: member of the European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS)
Since 2009: member of the Doctoral Board at ISO
Since 2003: member of the Italian Association of Chinese Studies

Doctoral Tutorship:
- Candidate: R. Vinci, “The Image of Italy in the Shenbao” (discussed: 04/2017).
- Candidate: Jiang T., “The EBCL Project for Chinese Language: an Assessment of Descriptors for Oral Reception at Levels A1-A2” (discussed: 04/2016).
- Candidate: M. Turriziani, “Kang Youwei’s Yidali youji” (discussed 09/2016).
- Candidate: L. Cesarino, “Courtesan poetry in the Quan Tangshi” (discussed 04/2013).

Visiting professor:
23/11/2018-09/12/2018: Research Center for Chinese Cultural Subjectivity, National Cheng Chi University, Taiwan;
16/03/2010-22/03/2010: Teaching Staff Mobility, Erasmus Program at Ghent University.

CONFERENCES:
From 2003 to today, more than 40 scientific conferences in Italy and abroad; invited as a guest to 7 of them.