Phd in STUDIES IN MEDIAEVAL PHILOLOGY, PALEOGRAPHY, ROMANCE
STUDIES

email: gaia.tomazzoli@uniroma1.it
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room: 425, IV piano, Facoltà DSEAI

Gaia Tomazzoli is junior research fellow within the Department of European Studies since September 1st, 2021 (L-FIL-LET/12). She obtained both her BA and MA at Sapienza University (BA in Italian literature, language and philology, 2011; MA in Textual Sciences, 2014); in 2012-2013 she was an Erasmus student at King's College, Cambridge University. She holds a PhD in Italian studies (2018, Ca' Foscari University), and she worked as lector of Italian within the Department of Italian and Romenian Studies of Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris (2018-2020) and as a post-doc fellow at the Universtiy of Pisa, where she collaborated with the PRIN project HDN – Hypermedia Dante Network (2020-2021). Her PhD dissertation, written under the supervision of prof. Saverio Bellomo and prof. Eugenio Burgio, was awarded the Paola Rigo prize (Ateneo Veneto) for the best PhD dissertation on Dante.
Her main research interests are: 1) metaphor and figurative language in Dante and in Medieval poetry; 2) rhetorical and linguistic features of Medieval prophecies; 3) Petrarch's political thought; 4) digital humanities, and notably digital scholarly editions, digital libraries, Semantic Web technologies. She is in the editorial teams of journals «L'Alighieri» «Revue des études dantesques» and «TranScript»; she is affiliated to the CERLIM (Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur la Littérature Italienne Médiévale, Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris) and to the VeDPH (Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities, Ca' Foscari Venice). She is taking part in several research projects, both in Italy and abroad: "Archivio Monaci" and "Eurotales – Museo delle voci d'Europa", Sapienza; "Hypermedia Dante Network", University of Pisa; "Dictamina. Transcription et mise en ligne de sources inédites sur la communication épistolaire italienne médiévale et sur son influence européenne [XIIe-XIVe s.]", École Française de Rome; "BonHUM – Boccace Numérique Humaniste", Université de Tours; "BIFLOW - Bilingualism in Florentine and Tuscan works, ca. 1260 – ca. 1430" ERC Starting Grant at Ca' Foscari Venice.