Alessandro Schiesaro#
| Membership Number: | 4310 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 (July) Head of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures and Professor of Classics, University of Manchester
- 2006 - 2016 (June) Professor of Latin Literature, University of Rome Sapienza
- 2011 - 2016 Director, School of Advanced Studies, Sapienza University of Rome
- 2011 EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL, Advanced Grants Panel SH 5 Cultures and Cultural Production, Panel Member 2011-13, Panel Chair, 2014
- 2008 Visiting Professor, Stanford University
- 1996 - 2006 Professor of Latin Language and Literature, King’s College London
- 1991 - 1996 Professor of Classics (previously Assistant Professor), Princeton University
- 1989 - 1991 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Assistant Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature
Fields of Scholarship
- Classics
- Cultural studies
- Reception, classical tradition
- Psychoanalysis
- Ancient philosophy
- Literary criticism
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Accademia Pontaniana (Naples), Corresponding Fellow
- 2000 Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy (Cavaliere)
- 2000 - 2001 Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship (declined)
- 1996 - 1997 NEH Fellowship for University Teachers (declined)
- 1995 - 1996 Center for Human Values, Princeton University
- 1994 - 1997 Robert Remsen Laidlaw '04 Preceptor in the Humanities, Princeton University
- 1993 - 1994 NATO-CNR Advanced Research Fellowship
