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Francesco Scalora
Position
Ricercatore a tempo det. art. 24 c.3 lett. A L. 240/2010
Structure
Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali: archeologia, storia dell'arte, del cinema e della musica (DBC)
Address
PIAZZA CAPITANIATO, 7 - PALAZZO LIVIANO - PADOVA
Telephone
Francesco Scalora graduated in Classical Studies from the University of
Palermo, where he received also his Master’s Degree in Byzantine, Medieval
and Modern Greek Philology (2011). He holds a Ph.D. in Greek-Latin Philology
and History of the Ancient Mediterranean from the University of Palermo and
in Modern Greek Philology from the University of Crete (2015).
He has served
-as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Modern Greek History at the University of
Athens, 2015-2018;
-as a Fellow at the Academy of Athens (K.&E. Ourani Foundation, Petrou Chari
Foundation), 2017-2018;
-as a Research Collaborator at the National Hellenic Research Foundation
(Institute of Historical Research - Section of Neohellenic Research),
2018-2019;
-as a Research Fellow in Modern Greek Studies at the Department of Cultural
Heritage of the University of Padua, 2019-2021;
-as a Research Fellow in Philhellenism at the Center for Hellenic Studies of
the Harvard University, 2021;
-as an Associate in Philhellenism at the Center for Hellenic Studies of the
Harvard University, 2022.
He currently teaches Modern Greek language and literature at the University
of Padova.
Notices
Office hours
Su appuntamento, accordandosi via email con qualche anticipo.
Teachings
MODERN GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, AA 2025 (LE02104802)
HISTORY OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY GREEK CULTURE, AA 2025 (SUQ5108887)
MODERN GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, AA 2024 (LE02104802)
Publications
Francesco Scalora is the author of the books:
-"Sicilia e Grecia. La presenza della Grecia moderna nella cultura siciliana
del XIX secolo" (ISSBI 2018);
-"Voci dall'Egeo" (Palermo University Press 2020);
-"Scolari greci all'Università di Padova. XV sec.-1570" (Cleup 2020);
-"Atene 1821-1827 nel Diario di Cesare Vitali" (ISSBI 2021);
- (ed.), "Il Risorgimento greco e l'Italia" (ISSBI 2022);
- (ed.), "Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio - La Martorana: da fondazione normanna
a parrocchia di rito greco" (ISSBI 2023);
- (ed., with E. Liosatou), "Libri, storie e parole fra Venezia e la Grecia.
Miscellanea di scritti in memoria di Mario Vitti" (Edizioni Ca’ Foscari
2024);
- "Po si zoqë t’kukuvacës / ndë një çerdhe të shkretuarë..." Studime
mbi gjuhën, letërsinë dhe kulturën arbëreshe ["Come nati di civetta in
un nido abbandonato..." Studi sulla lingua, la letteratura e la cultura
arbëreshe] (Tirana 2024);
- "La fortuna di Solomòs nell'Ottocento italiano" (ISSBI 2025);
- (ed., with A. Coppola), "Cottunio e l'aristotelismo neoellenico a Padova
nel XVII secolo" (Cleup 2025);
- (ed., with M. Caracausi), "La Grecia moderna all'Università di Palermo"
(Palermo University Press 2025).
Research Area
-Philology and modern Greek literature
-Modern Greek translations
-Italian Philhellenism and literary Philhellenism
-Greek student presence in Padua (15th-19th centuries)
-Greek diaspora in Italy (15th-19th centuries), networks and literary
production
-Greek-Albanian communities in Italy (15th-19th centuries), networks and
literary production
-Modern Greek identity, history of ideas and cultural transfers (15th-19th
centuries)
-Italian Press and the Modern Greek Studies (19th-20th centuries)
-Travelogues in Greece - Travellers' views (18th-19th centuries)
-Change of place-names in Italy and in Greece (19th century)
-Italian Occupation of Dodecanese Islands (1912-1943)
Thesis proposals
I can tutor theses on
-Philology and Modern Greek literature
-Modern Greek translations
-Italian Philhellenism and literary Philhellenism
-Greek student presence in Padua (15th-19th centuries)
-Greek diaspora in Italy (15th-19th centuries), networks and literary
production
-Greek-Albanian communities in Italy (15th-19th centuries), networks and
literary production
-Modern Greek identity, history of ideas and cultural transfers (15th-19th
centuries)
-Italian Press and the Modern Greek Studies (19th-20th centuries)
-Travelogues in Greece - Travellers' views (18th-19th centuries)
-Change of place-names in Italy and in Greece (19th century)
-Italian Occupation of Dodecanese Islands (1912-1943)
Other theses proposals related to the language, literature and culture of
Modern Greece may also be suggested.
