Italian National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor in Italian higher education system (ASN) in the following discipline:
– Academic recruitment field 10/G1 (now GDS 10/GLOT-01) Theories and history of languages, discipline L-LIN/01 (now GLOT-01/A) Historical and general linguistics, gained unanimously by the committee (ASN 2023–2025, 3rd term) on March 7, 2025;
– Academic recruitment field 10/D2 (now GDS 10/HELL-01) Greek language and literature, discipline L-FIL-LET/02 (now HELL-01/B) Greek language and literature, gained unanimously by the committee (ASN 2023–2025, 6th term) on June 9, 2026.
High school diploma at Liceo classico statale G.B. Impallomeni in Milazzo, 2007.
Bachelor of Arts in the Classics at the Catholic University in Milan, 2010. Thesis in Greek language and literature.
Master of Arts in the Classics at the Catholic University in Milan, 2012. Thesis in Greek language and literature.
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at the University of Macerata (Italy) and the University of Cologne (Germany), joint title, 2017. Dissertation on divine names in the Cyclades.
Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Greek Meter and Linguistics at Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC, in 2019–20 with a 6-month appointment extension.
Journalist since 2016. Dancer in ballet and Indian classical dance (bharatanāṭyam).
Visiting Professor in Applied Linguistics, module in Phonetics and Phonology, at Bona Sforza University – Institute of Advanced Studies in Language Mediation in Bari, from the academic year 2023–2024.
Member of the Inter-univeristy Research naMec (Asian Nomadic Cultures, Mobility and Environment Studies Center – Mongolian Culture Center), of the Department of History, Archaeology, Geography, Fine and Performing Arts (Sagas) at the University of Florence and of the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Industries (Dusic) at the University of Parma, from the academic year 2023–2024.
PUBLICATIONS
2011. Un occhio vedico sulla Bayadère. Stratagemmi. Prospettive Teatrali 20:37–62. [link]
2013. Shakespeare sulle punte: drammaturgia del Sogno di una notte di mezza estate di George Balanchine. Stratagemmi. Prospettive Teatrali 27:11–40. [link]
2017. Theran hικεϲιοϲ (6th c. BC) and Homeric ἱκετήσιος: Evidence for a Zeus ‘of the Foreigners’ in Archaic Greece. In: Felicia Logozzo and Paolo Poccetti (eds.). Ancient Greek Linguistics. New Approaches, Insights, Perspectives. 775–790. Berlin: De Gruyter. [link]
2020. The Circle of Fame: Apollo, the Corps de Ballet, and the Song of the Muses at Delphi. Classical Inquiries (June 11). [link]
2020. The Rhythm of Greek Oral Poetry: Prosody, Accentual Groups and Metrical Anomalies. CHS Research Bulletin 8. [link]
2020. Zeus Δέκτερος ‘Benevolent, Welcoming’ from Thera and Proto-Indo-European ‘Right’. In: David Goldstein, Stephanie W. Jamison and Brent Vine (eds.). Proceedings of the 31st Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (Los Angeles, November 8th–9th, 2019). 229–245. Hamburg: Buske. [link]
2021. (with Giovanna Rocca). La lamina aurea Schøyen MS 5236. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 217:1–16. [link]
2021. La volontà infallibile di Delfi. Un occhio linguistico sugli oracoli di fondazione coloniale. Parma: Athenaeum. [link]
2022. (with Davide Astori). Quindici lezioni di linguistica. Parma: Athenaeum. [link]
2022. The Good and the Evil: An Avestan Central Theme in a Peripheral Romani Folk-tale through Language and Myth. Poli-Femo 23:87–106. [link]
2023. Mourning Friends and Sacred Marriages: The Lamentations of Gilgameš and Akhilleus between Poetry, Religion and Linguistics. Pasiphae 17:221–232. [link]
2023. Singin’ in the Night: German Nachtigall with Its Cognates and Delocatival Compounding with “Night” in Proto-Germanic and Proto-Indo-European. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 83.1:26–44. [link]
2023. Miceneo ma-ka (Knossos) e l’epiteto cretese Welkhanos: qualche riflessione di linguistica, poetica e onomastica indoeuropea. Paideia 78:703–708. [link]
2023. Noam Chomsky, William Stokoe and Their Linguistic Theories from the 1950s to the 1970s: The Parallel Revolution?. In: Davide Astori, Domenico Giuseppe Muscianisi and Rachele Sprugnoli (eds.). Tra(ns-)durre Stokoe in Italia. Storia, stato dell’arte ed eredità di un progetto. 55–72. Parma: UniNova. [link]
2024. The Name “Jesus” in Iberia: A Linguistic and Cultural Study in Onomastic Taboo. In Oliviu Felecan & Alina Burgheșiu (eds.), Name and Naming. Proceedings of the Sixth International conference on Onomastics "Name and Naming: (In)correctness in Onomastics" (Baia Mare, September 5–7, 2023). 153-172. Cluj-Napoca: Mega. [link]
2024. Language Use and Iconicity in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo (182–206): Meter and Poetics, Orality and Storytelling. AION-Linguistica n.s. 13:121–145. [link]
2024. The Word Taboo in Languages and Cultures: The Case of Proto-Indo-European “Left”. L’Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria 32.3:39–60. [link]
