Francesco Stella#
| Membership Number: | 3367 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.tdtc.unisi.it/personale/curriculum.asp?doc=Stella |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 - present Coordinator of a Master Program on Digital Edition and member of the Research Commission of the Siena University
- 2002 - present Director of the Center for Comparative Studies “I Deug-Su”
- 2004 - 2010 he has been head of the Dept. of Classics and Cultural Heritage
- 2002 - present Full professor of Medieval Latin Literature at the University of Siena-Arezzo, where he also teaches Comparative Literature
- 2001 - 2002 Researcher in Latin Literature
- 1990 - 2000 Assistent in Latin Literature at the University of Siena in Arezzo
- 1988 - 1990 Ph.d student at the Unniversity of Firenze
- 1987 - 88 Collaborator of the Bavarian Academy of sciences (Thesaurus Linguae Latinae) of Munich
Fields of Scholarship
- Medieval latin literature
- Translation studies
- Digital Philology
- Comparative Literature
Honours and Awards
- Member of the
- Fondazione Lorenzo Valla, Roma,
- Scientific Board of the SISMEL (Società Internazionale di Studi sul Medioevo Latino)
- Advisory Board of CISAM Foundation (Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo). He has been
- Scientific Board of "Medioevo Latino" and lector of the "Clavis auctorum latinorum medii aevi."
- Scientific Board of CISLAB (Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi sui Beni Librari e Archivistici, Univ. di Siena).
- Scientific board of university series and academic journals, including: "Mediaevalia & Humanistica" (U.S.A.), "Iacobus" (Spagna), "Traditio e Renovatio" (Bergamo),"Classiques latins du Moyen Âge" (Paris), "Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library" (Harvard University, USA).
- Committee for "Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages" (inside the International Comparative Literature Association).
- Vice-secretary of the Italian National Society of Latin Studies
- 2007 - 2013 Director of the series Scrittori latini de Medioevo europeo financed by the European program Cultura (Pacini Editore).
- Prizes:
- Menzione Speciale Premio Internazionale Ascoli 2011 per la collana "Scrittori latini dell'Europa medievale"
- Premio del Ministero dei Beni Culturali-Presidenza della Repubblica per la traduzione (2003) per la direzione di "Semicerchio. Rivista di poesia comparata"
- Premio Fiesole 1998 per "Semicerchio. Rivista di poesia comparata"
- Premio Certamen Capitolinum 1993 dell'Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani per il volume Audrado di Sens "De fonte vitae"
