Full professor of Russian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Foreing Languages and Literatures of the University of Verona since 2011.

Associate professor of Russian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Foreing Languages and Literatures of the University of Verona since 2001.

Associate professor of Russian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Foreing Languages and Literatures of the University of Udine from 1998 to 31.10.2001.

Assistant professor of of Russian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Foreing Languages and Literatures of the University of Verona since 1987.

PhD program

Member of the Committee of professors od the PhD program in Foreign literatures and Science of Literature, University of Verona (from the XVII cycle up to the present day)

Organization of congresses

– Metmorphoses of the Donna di Picche. International congress, University of Verona, November 5-6, 1999, in collaboration with Sergio Pescatori.

– Five literatures today. International congress, University of Udine, Section of Russian literature, November 9-10, 2001.

Main papers read at Italian congresses and congresses abroad:

- The Middle Ages and the Oriental Novel. The travel of texts, III International Symposium, Venezia, October 10-13, 1996: The “Mother of God of Kazan'”.

Iconographic tradition and legend.

- Metamorphoses of the Donna di Picche. International convention, University of Verona, November 5-6, 1999: The Poor Liza, the “poor” Lizaveta Ivanovna.

- Five literatures today. International convention. University of Udine, November 9-10, 2001: Play and literary stylization in B. Akunin’s Fandorin.

- For a rediscovery of Gogol’ in the 150° anniversary of his death, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Russian Academy of Sciences, Venezia September 26-28, 2002: Motifs of the Kievo-Pečerskij Paterik in Gogol’’s oeuvre.

- Gogol’ kak javlenie mirovoj literatury (Gogol’ as a phenomenon of world literature), International Convention, IMLI RAN, Moskva, October 31–November 2, 2002: Gogol’: odežda i moda (Gogol’: dress and faschion).

- Gogol’ i teatr. Tret’i gogolevskie čtenija (Gogol’ and theater. Third Gogol readings), International conference, Moskva, April 1-3, 2003: Gogol’ v ital’janskoj kinematografii (Gogol’ in Italian cinema).

- Italija i dvor moskovskich gosudarej XV-XVII vekov (Italy and the court of Russian tsars 15th-17th centuries), International scientific conference for the 200th anniversary of the Museums of Moscow Cremlin, Moskva, February 1-3, 2005: Azovskaja Bogomater’ i izobraženie krylatoj Bogomateri v russkoj i ital’janskoj tradicii (The Mother of God of Azov and the representation of the winged Mother of God in the Russian and Italian traditions).

- Their prisons: writings from jail, International symposium, University of Verona, May 25-28, 2005: Dostoevskij’s Letters from the fortress.

- N.V.Gogol’ v sovremmenom kul’turnom prostranstve (N.V. Gogol’ in the contemporary cultural space). Sixth Gogol’’s readings, International conference, Moskva, MArch 31 - April 3, 2006: Montale čitaet Gogolja (Montale reads Gogol’).

- The character of Mozart in fictional literature, International congress, Philharmonic Academy of Verona – University of Verona, Verona, December 4-5, 2007: Puškin’s Mozart.

Principal fields of research

The main field of research concerns nineteenth century Russian literature, in particular the work of Gogol’, to which I devoted numerous contributions on:

aspects of poetics and style; problems of textual analysis, also with respect to the publication of previously unpublished authgraophs; reflections of Gogol’’s legacy in an intercultural dimension.

Other authors object of study in the nineteenth century are:A. Puškin (Karamzinian tradition in Pikovaja dama, dynamics of the subject in Mozart and

Salieri); F. Dostoevskij (correspondence).

Objects of study in the twentieth century: N. Berdjaev, S. Bulgakov; authors of the so-called Soviet derevenskaja proza sovietica (V. Rasputin, F. Abramov); V. Rozanov (compositive and stylistic strategies of fragmentarity); A. Blok (The twelve,in the tradition of twentieth century “poema extenso”); contemporary “mass” literature (the phenomenon Čchartišvili-Akunin); gulag literature.

A particular line of research concerns the subjects of Russian iconography: genesis and development in relation to the artistic text, to popular tradition and to literary genres (especially legends, historical and hagiographic narrations).