Phd in STUDIES IN MEDIAEVAL PHILOLOGY, PALEOGRAPHY, ROMANCE
STUDIES

email: gaia.tomazzoli@uniroma1.it
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building: Lettere e Filosofia, p.le Aldo Moro 5
room: 425, Dipartimento di Studi Europei

Gaia Tomazzoli is a tenure-track researcher at the Department of European Studies since 2025 (LIFI-10/A - Italian linguistics). She earned her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Sapienza University of Rome (BA in Italian Language, Philology, and Literature, 2011; MA in Textual Sciences, 2014). During the 2012-2013 academic year, she attended King’s College at the University of Cambridge through the Erasmus program. She obtained her PhD from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in 2018, where she wrote a thesis under the supervision of Saverio Bellomo and Eugenio Burgio. Her dissertation on Dante’s figurative language won the Paola Rigo Prize from the Ateneo Veneto for the best doctoral thesis in Dante studies and was published in 2023 by Edizioni Ca’ Foscari.
During her PhD, she spent a research period abroad at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (2017). She later worked as an Italian language lecturer at the Département d’Études Italiennes et Roumaines of Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris (2018-2020), then as a research fellow at the University of Pisa within the PRIN 2017 Hypermedia Dante Network project (2020-2021), and finally, she was a fixed-term researcher (RTDa) at Sapienza.
Her research focuses on metaphors and figurative language in Dante and medieval Italian lyric poetry; the rhetoric and language of medieval prophetic texts; digital humanities applied to text editing, linguistic linked open data, and digital libraries; Semantic Web technologies and formal ontologies; feminist criticism; and the language and style of contemporary Italian novels, with particular interest in migrant literature.
She is the editorial secretary of the journal «L’Alighieri» and a member of the editorial board of «TranScript. Traduzione e scrittura nel Medioevo europeo». She is affiliated with CERLIM (Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur la Littérature Italienne Médiévale) and VeDPH (Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities) and has collaborated, or is currently collaborating, on various Italian and international research projects, including: "Archivio Monaci" and "Narrating Women: Misogyny and Philogyny in Medieval and Early Modern Romance and Middle English Narrative" (Sapienza); "Eurotales – Per un Museo/Laboratorio delle voci d'Europa" (Sapienza and the CIVIS consortium); "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 [12th-14th century]" (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, Ca’ Foscari University). Since 2023, she has been vice-PI and unit coordinator for the PRIN PNRR project MITE - Make It Explicit. Documenting interpretations of literary fictions with conceptual formal models (https://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/mite/).
Her contributions have been published in several international journals («L'Alighieri», «Linguistica e letteratura», «Tenzone», «Italianistica», «Umanistica Digitale», «Digital Scholarship in the Humanities», «Chroniques italiennes», «Heliotropia», «Ecdotica») and in collective volumes. She translated Dante’s De vulgari eloquentia, Monarchia, and Questio de aqua et terra from Latin for the Giunti Barbèra edition of Dante’s Works (2021). She has been an invited speaker at numerous conferences and seminars in Italy and abroad (France, UK, Ireland, Spain, Germany, and the US) and has contributed to organizing various scientific events, later editing the publication of their proceedings.