Benedetta Craveri#
| Membership Number: | 4831 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.unisob.na.it/universita/areadocenti/ricerca.htm?id=92 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2005 to present Professor of French Literature, Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples.
- 2001 - 2005 Full Professor in French Language and Literature, Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Moderne dell’Università della Tuscia, Viterbo.
- 1988 - 2001 Associate Professor in French Language and Literature, Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Moderne dell’Università della Tuscia, Viterbo.
- 2006 - 2007: professeur invité à Paris IV/ Sorbonne.
- 2008 al 2014 member of the Compared Literature Doctoral Commission, Università La Sapienza di Roma.
Fields of Scholarship
- Cultural French history in the age of Enlightenment
- Gender history in the age of Enlightenment
Honours and Awards
- 1987 Awarded the "Prix du meilleur livre étranger" in the essay category for "Madame du Deffand et son monde" (Seuil)
- 2003 Awarded the "Prix Saint-Simon" for l'Âge de la conversation"(Gammimard).
- 2006 Awarded the “Prix du rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises”, by the Académie Française.
- 2016 Member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (2016)
- 2017 Cino del Duca World Prize, awarded for the entire body of her work. Awarded each year since 1975, the World Cino Del Duca is awarded to a French-speaking author whose work constitutes, in a scientific or literary expression, a message of modern humanism. It is the second highest endowed world prize in the humanities and social sciences after the Nobel Prize for literature.
