Gianfranco Agosti#
| Membership Number: | 3945 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | https://unipi.academia.edu/GianfrancoAgosti |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 Professor of Classical and Late Antique Philology, University of Pisa
- 2011 - 2022 Professor of Classical and Late Antique Philology, Sapienza University of Rome; Coordinator of PhD curriculum
- 2008 - 2011 Lecturer in Classical Philology and Professore Aggregato, University of Udine
- 2006 Chercheur Associé Étranger at CNRS – UMR 7044, Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg II (France)
- 2004 - 2008 Assistant Professor (Professore a Contratto), University of Siena - Arezzo (Italy)
- 2001 - 2004 Post-Doc Lecturer (Assegnista di Ricerca) in Papyrology, University of Messina (Italy)
- 1999 - 2004 Teacher of Greek and Latin in the High School, Florence (Italy)
- 1997 - 1998 Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Florence, Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità “G. Pasquali”, Italy
- 1995 - 1996 Fellow of Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University, Washington DC
Fields of Scholarship
- History and culture of Late Antique Egypt
- Iconography of Late Mosaics (c. fourth-seventh century CE)
- Literary papyrology
- Late Antique and Byzantine epigraphy
- Late Antique and Medieval Greek and Latin poetry
- History of manuscript textual transmission
- Greek philology
- Social and cultural history of Near East in Late Antiquity
Honours and Awards
- 2018 - 2019 Chaire Gutenberg 2018 de l'Université de Strasbourg
- 2018 Visiting Fellow of the British Academy (University of St Andrews)
- 2018 Membre Associé de l'Institut d'études anciennes et médiévales (IEAM) Université Laval
- 2018 Membre associé de l'Equipe de recherche sur le christianisme antique et médiéval (ERCAM)- EA 4377 Théologie Catholique et Sciences religieuses - Université de Strasbourg
- 2016 Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- 2015 Visiting Professor Université Laval (Québec)
- 2012 Visiting Professor Université de Paris IV – Sorbonne, LABEX RESMED
- 2012 Membre associé (Centre d’Histoire et Civilisations de Byzance) UMR 8167 – Orient et Méditerranée – Byzance
- 2008 Directeur d’étude invité, Paris University – Sorbonne, EPHE IVème section
- 2006 Chercheur Associé Étranger at CNRS – UMR 7044, Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg II (France)
- 2004 Member of the directory board of the European Summer School of Classics (University of Trieste)
- 1995 Fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University, Washington DC
