Curriculum Vitae
Matteo Leta
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Matteo Leta
Citation names
- Leta, Matteo
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 1C17-F5F7-51EF
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-4596-6330
Email addresses
- leta.matteo.93@gmail.com (Personal)
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Italian (Mother tongue) | |||||
| French | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
| English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
| Spanish; Castilian | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2016/11/01 - 2019/06/28
Concluded
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Doctorat en Littérature et civilisations françaises (Doctorat)
École doctorale Littératures françaises et comparée, France
Sorbonne Université, France |
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2014/10/01 - 2016/07/21
Attended
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Laurea Magistrale in Filologia Moderna (110 cum laude) (Laurea Magistrale)
Università della Calabria, Italy
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2011/10 - 2014/10
Concluded
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Lettere e Beni Culturali Curriculum Classico (Bachelor)
Università della Calabria, Italy
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110 cum laude |
Affiliation
Positions / Appointments
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2024/09/30 - Current | MSCA-COfund Eutopia SIF Postdoctoral Fellowship | University of Warwick, United Kingdom |
| 2024/06/01 - 2024/09/30 | Short-Term Research Grant | Universität Trier, Germany |
| 2023/09/11 - 2024/05/31 | Teaching Fellow in Italian | University College Dublin, Ireland |
| 2021/01/23 - 2024/05/31 | Sessional Lecturer in Italian Literature | Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli, Italy |
| 2021/07/04 - 2022/06/30 | Postdoctoral Fellowship in Italian Studies | University of Toronto, Canada |
| 2020/01/01 - 2020/12/31 | Research Fellowship | Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Italy |
| 2020/01/20 - 2020/03/19 | Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher | Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Germany |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2024/09 - 2026/09 | Science and Renaissance Plays: the Example(s) of Giovambattista Della Porta
945380
Post-doc
University of Warwick, United Kingdom
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European Commission Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions |
| 2024/06 - 2024/09 | The Doctor’s Stage: Doctor-playwrights in the Italian and French Renaissance
NA
Post-doc
Universität Trier, Germany
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Concluded
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| 2020/01 - 2020/03 | Marginality and scientific heterodoxy in the Renaissance: the charlatan between literature, philosophy and medicine
N/A
Post-doc
Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Germany
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Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
Concluded
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Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2021/07 - 2022/06 | "Gypsies " in the Italian Renaissance Comedy
N A
Post-doc
University of Toronto, Canada
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Concluded
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| 2020/01/01 - 2020/12/01 | The representation of the Other between literature and philosophy in Neapolitan Renaissance culture
N. A.
Post-doc
Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Italy
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Concluded
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Other
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2020/09 - 2020/11 | Campanella
N. A.
Research Fellow
centro internazionale di studi telesiani, bruniani e campanelliani, Italy
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Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
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| Book review |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2024/10/25 | “Clash of Civilisations? Italian Literary Representations of and around the Cyprus War | CSR Advisory Board Meeting
CSR, University of Warwick (Coventry, United Kingdom)
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| 2024/09/13 | Il Negromante e la costituzione dell’immaginario “zingaresco” tra Italia ed Europa nel Cinquecento |
ADI (Palermo, Italy)
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| 2024/06/21 | Le declinazioni possibili de La lupa di Giovanni Verga tra novella e dramma |
Society for Italian Studies (Royal Holloway, United Kingdom)
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| 2024/02/28 | The Sack of Lipari (1544). A (Micro)History of a Literary Case and the Representation of the Enemy in the Renaissance | SLCL Research Seminar
SLCL, University College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland)
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| 2023/11 | «Andiamo come zingani di paese in paese». Scrivere e Riscrivere il Negromante nell’Europa del Cinquecento | Annual Meeting of the Italianists in Ireland
University of Galway (Galway, Ireland)
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| 2023/05/10 | Il racconto dei vagabondi nel Negromante di Ariosto e nella sua tradizione europea | I modi del raccontare: spazi della narrazione nella letteratura italiana del Cinquecento
Università della Calabria (Rende, Italy)
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| 2023/03/21 | «Nula clementia li cani teniano»: testimonianze letterarie del sacco di Lipari |
Università Federico II (Naples, Italy)
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| 2022/09/16 | Turchi, schiavi e corsari nelle commedie di fine Cinquecento e inizio Seicento | 25th ADI (Associazione degli Italianisti) Annual Conference
ADI (Foggia, Italy)
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| 2022/05/05 | La ‘zingara’ e la lumaca: rappresentare l’altra sul palco del Rinascimento |
University College Dublin and University of Toronto (online, Canada)
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| 2022/04/21 | Se non siamo levati dalla terra nella quale siamo nati, e repiantati altrove, mai facemo cosa buona”: the ‘Gypsy’ in the Italian Renaissance Comedy | Goggio Lecture
University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada)
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| 2021/10/23 | L’idolâtrie des Égyptiens: entre actualisation et anachronisme |
Sorbonne Université (Paris, France)
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| 2021/04 | Tabarin entre science et farce | RSA Annual Meeting
Renaissance Society of America (online, United States)
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| 2020/11/13 | Mocking Masculinity: Charivari and House-Scorning in Machiavelli’s Mandragola |
Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium (online, Canada)
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| 2020/11 | Pasolini, i Turchi invasori e i Turchi liberatori |
Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici (Naples, Italy)
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| 2019/05/26 | Tra riscrittura e (auto)censura : il caso di Pierre de Larivey | Viaggiare nel testo
Fondazione Goffredo Caetani di Sermoneta (Sermoneta, Italy)
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| 2019/04/06 | «Car où sont ces sauts et danses lascives, là est aussi le Diable»: démons et sorciers dansant à la Renaissance | Les Très Riches Heures de la chorégraphie
Sorbonne Université (Paris, France)
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| 2019/02/18 | Magie, illusionnisme et charlatanerie à l’époque moderne | Cycle of Seminars organised by Jean-Charles Coulon and Ayda Bouanga
EHESS (Paris, France)
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| 2019/02/02 | Le Sud de l’Italie : lieu de tromperie et lieu de magie à la Renaissance | Séminaire Chorea
Association Cornucopia (Paris, France)
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| 2018/11/19 | Charlatans et marginaux: Gitans, Basques et Juifs dans l'imaginaire littéraire de la Renaissance | Cycle of lectures organised by Denis Crouzet
Sorbonne Université (Paris, France)
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| 2018/10 | Marginalization and (In)hospitality: The Gypsies in the Italian Renaissance Comedy | Early Modern Cultures of Hospitality
Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium (Toronto, Canada)
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| 2018/09/12 | Il Ciarlatano tra letteratura e arti visive nel Rinascimento | Letteratura e Arti Visive
Fondazione Natalino Sapegno (Morgex, Italy)
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| 2017/09/07 | “La Riscrittura comica del rituale magico nel teatro cinquecentesco | 21st ADI (Associazione degli Italianisti) Annual Conference
ADI (Florence, Italy)
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Ad Hoc journal article review
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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| 2023 - Current | Galilæana (1825-3903) | Online Open-Access |
| 2021 - Current | Quaderni d'Italianistica (2293-7382) | Iter Press |
| 2024 - 2024 | Forum for Modern Languages and Literatures (1471-6860) | Oxford University Press |
Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
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| 2024 - Current | Centro de Estudos Globais (CEG-UAb) | Member of the Research Center |
| 2021 - Current | Seminario de Estudios sobre el Renacimiento | Member of the Research Center |
| 2020 - Current | Emodir (Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism) | Member of the Research Group |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2024/10 - 2024/12 | Renaissance Science: Alchemists, Politicians, Charlatans | (Bachelor) | University of Warwick, United Kingdom |
| 2024/01 - 2024/05 | Italian Language Ib | (Bachelor) | University College Dublin, Ireland |
| 2024/01 - 2024/05 | Making Italy | (Bachelor) | University College Dublin, Ireland |
| 2024/01 - 2024/05 | Italian Language IIIb | (Bachelor) | University College Dublin, Ireland |
| 2024/01 - 2024/05 | Renaissance Italy | (Bachelor) | University College Dublin, Ireland |
| 2021/01 - 2024/05 | Italian Literature | Law / Political Science (Laurea) | Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli, Italy |
| 2023/09 - 2023/12 | Italian Language Ia | (Bachelor) | University College Dublin, Ireland |
| 2023/09 - 2023/12 | Reading Italian Literature | (Bachelor) | University College Dublin, Ireland |
| 2023/09 - 2023/12 | Italian Language IIIa | (Bachelor) | University College Dublin, Ireland |
| 2021/09 - 2021/12 | Machiavelli and Machiavellianism | (Bachelor) | University of Toronto, Canada |
Journal scientific committee
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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| 2021 - Current | L'Universo Mondo (2039-6740) | Online Open Access |
| 2021/06 - 2021/12 | Filologia antica e moderna (1123-4059) | Rubbettino |
Distinctions
Award
| 2024 | Habilitation as Profesor Lector
Agencia para la Calidad del Sistema Universitario de Cataluna, Spain
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| 2024 | Teaching and Learning Nomination Award
University College Dublin School of Languages and Literature, Ireland
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| 2022 | Habilitation (2022-2026) Maître de Conférence: section 14 Études romanes (Romance Languages and Literatures)
Ministère de l'Education nationale de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, France
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