Florian Mussgnug - Curriculum Vitae#

Education

• 2009 PhD in Literary Studies (Corso di Perfezionamento), Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
  
• Awarded with distinction (“pienamento idoneo”), University of Pisa, Italy
  
• 2000 DPhil in Italian Literature (Year One), St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford
  
• AHRB Postgraduate Studentship, Scatcherd International Scholarship;
  
• Oxford Modern Languages Faculty Graduate Scholarship (1999-2000)
  
• 1999 Mst Research Methods in Modern Languages, Balliol College, University of Oxford
  Awarded with Distinction (A+)
  
• 1995 BA in Philosophy and Modern Languages, Balliol College, University of Oxford
  
• Final Honour School (1998): First Class; Preliminary Examinations (1995): Distinction;
  
• Brassey Scholar (1996-98); Oxford Univ. Gibbs Prize (1998); Balliol Brassey Prize (1996 & 1998)

Prize Juries and National Research Assessment (selective)

• 2021 Member of the Italian National Assessment Panel for Modern Italian Literature (VQR): 2015-2019.
  
• 2021 Chair of Literature and Languages Peer Review College, National Research Council of Portugal.
  
• 2020 Member of the Prize Jury, Premio Strega Literary Award, Italy
  
• 2018 Peer Reviewer, Postdoctoral Fellowships, Irish Research Council
  
• 2018 Chair of Prize Jury, Peter Lang Young Scholars Book Competition
  
• 2016 Member of the Italian National Assessment Panel for Modern Italian Literature (VQR): 2015-2019.
  
• 2015 Peer Reviewer, Early Career Fellowship Competition, Leverhulme Trust
  
• 2014 - 2017 Member of the Literature Subject Panel, AHRC London Arts and Humanities Partnership
  
• 2014 Member of the International Peer Review College, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal (National Research Council of Portugal)
  
• 2009 Prize Jury, Premio Campiello Europa, Edizione Gran Bretagna
  
• 2006 Prize Jury, John Dryden Translation Prize, British Comparative Literature Association

Research Grants

I was co-investigator for the AHRC-funded research project Interdisciplinary Italy 1900-2020: Interart/Intermedia, which received a network grant and a five-year project grant (2012-2020, total £831,131). I was also awarded £35,000 by the UCL Global Engagement Office in 2017 and £12,300 by the Italian Association of City Councils (ANCI) in 2019, and I have been the recipient of ten smaller grants (total £45,000).

Subject Associations and Research Networks (selective)

• 2018 International Comparative Literature Association: member of the Coordinating Committee for the Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages (CHLEL)
  
• 2010 Hermes Consortium for Literary and Cultural Studies: international steering committee
  
• 2009 London Intercollegiate Network for Comparative Studies (LINKS): founding member
  
• 2005 - 2009 Réseau Européen d’Etudes Littéraires Comparés: webmaster and UK representative
  
• 2005 - 2014 British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA): executive committee member
  

Book Series and Journal Editorial Boards (selective)

• 2021 Arabeschi: scientific board
  
• 2020 Between, Journal of the Italian Association for the Theory and Comparative History of Literature, UniCa Open Journals: editorial board
  
• 2018 Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, J. Benjamins: editorial board
  
• 2018 Trame, Armando Editore, Rome: editorial board
  
• 2017 Modern Languages Open, Comparative Literature, Liverpool University Press, ed. board
  
• 2016 Comparative Literature and Culture (UCL Press): series co-editor (with T. Mathews)
  
• 2011 New Comparative Criticism (Peter Lang): founding general series editor
  
• 2008 - 2013 Italian Studies, Journal of the UK and Irish Society for Italian Studies (SIS): editorial board
  
• 2005 - 2012 Studi Culturali, Bologna, Il Mulino Editore: editorial board
  
• 2003 - 2012 Contemporanea: Rivista di studi sulla letteratura e sulla comunicazione, Pisa, Fabrizio Serra Editore: editorial board

Professional Service and Public Sector Roles (selective)

• 2021 Vice-Dean International, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University College London
  
• 2022 Acting Head of Department, School of European Languages, Culture and Society, UCL
  
• 2019 - 2020 UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society: REF 2021 Strategy Group
  
• 2018 - 2020 UK-Italy 2020 Season of Culture, British Council: international programme board member
  
• 2018 - 2021 UCL Cities Partnerships Programme, Academic Director (Rome)
  
• 2018 - 2020 UCL Academic Board: Non-Professorial Member
  
• 2015 UCL Slade School of Fine Art: External Member of Research and Doctoral Board
  
• 2013 - 2019 Founding director, UCL Undergraduate Programme in Comparative Literature