Phd in STUDIES IN MEDIAEVAL PHILOLOGY, PALEOGRAPHY, ROMANCE
STUDIES

email: nadia.cannata@uniroma1.it
phone: 0649913869
building: Facoltà di Lettere, Sede Centrale Piazzale Aldo Moro
room: 22

Prof. Cannata graduated from the University of Roma “La Sapienza” in 1985 and was awarded her D.Phil. at the University of Oxford in 1991. She has been Post-Doctoral Fellow of the British Academy, Lecturer in Italian Studies at Oxford University and at the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Reading (1991-2001). She then joined the Dipartimento di Studi Americani, Europei e Interculturali where she currently teaches. During the academic year 1997-1998 she was a Fellow at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence and in 2001-2002 held a Leverhulme Trust Grant from the British Academy. Her research interest span from the history of the printed book in Italy during the early Renaissance and its bearing on the history of Italian literature and language in the same period, to matters regarding the critical edition and textual analysis of vernacular and neo-latin poetry; textual bibliography; the relationship between literature and fine arts during the early Renaissance; linguistic treatises and the teoria cortigiana in the Cinquecento; public script in late Antiquity and Early Modern Europe. She has also published on womens’ writing in the Renaissance and the Novecento. Lately she has worked on Medieval epigraphy in Romance Europe and on the relationship between orality and writter records.
She is one of the coordinators of the Mueseum Project EUROTALES and has edited the first ever volume dedicated to Language Museums in the World (Routledge, 2020)