Pierandrea GOTTARDI

EDUCATION

– BA in Historical and Philological–Literary Studies, University of Trento, awarded on 15 July 2015, with a thesis in Romance Philology.

– MA in Philology and Literary Criticism, University of Trento, awarded on 21 March 2018, with a thesis in Germanic Philology.

– PhD (fully funded) in Forms of the Text, curriculum Linguistics, Philology and Criticism (34th cycle), University of Trento (2018–2022); PhD in Germanic Philology (Italian SSD: GERM-01/A), awarded on 12 July 2022 cum laude, with a dissertation entitled “Wordes bolde”. Stylistic Evolution from the Roman de Horn to King Horn and Horn Childe.

– Visiting Student, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge, Autumn 2017.

– Visiting Student, Anglo-Norman Dictionary, Aberystwyth University, January–March 2020.

– Teacher Training Preparatory Programme (24 ECTS), University of Trento, 2018.

– Summer School, Palaeography, Script Types and the Composition of the Medieval Codex, University of Bergamo, June 2022.

– Winter School in Digital Humanities, University of Verona, November 2022.

– Winter School, The Medieval Nordic World: Languages and Texts, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, January 2023.

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND RESEARCH

– Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Italian SSD: GERM-01/A), University of Trento, Department of Humanities (November 2022 – November 2023), with a research project focused on stylistic analysis and critical editions of Middle English and Middle High German versions of the legend of St Christopher.

– Research Fellow (Italian SSD: GERM-01/A), University of Perugia, Department of Letters, Languages, Literatures and Ancient and Modern Civilisations (July 2024 – June 2025), within the PRIN project The Textual Legacy of the Ostrogoths in Italy: the Bible Version and Other Texts, with responsibility for the diplomatic and critical edition of the Gothic Bible.

– Subject Specialist (Cultore della materia) in Germanic Philology (Italian SSD: GERM-01/A), University of Trento (since January 2023).

UNIVERSITY TEACHING

– Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Adjunct Lecturer (AY 2022/2023):

– BA level: History and Principles of Textual Criticism (30 hours);

– MA level: Germanic Philology II, Module 2 (30 hours).

– Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Adjunct Lecturer (AY 2022/2023):

– BA level: Germanic Philology (M–Z cohort, 30 hours).

– University of Parma, Adjunct Lecturer (AYs 2023/2024, 2024/2025, 2025/2026):

– BA level: Germanic Philology (30 hours).

– University of Trento (AYs 2020/2021 and 2021/2022): Tutor and coordinator of Germanic Philology laboratories, with teaching activities in Old English and Middle High German (20+20 hours), in support of MA courses in Germanic Philology I and II (Prof. F. Ferrari).

SCHOLARLY SOCIETIES

– Member of the Associazione Italiana di Filologia Germanica (since 2019).

– Member of the Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale (since 2023).

– Member of the European Association for Digital Humanities (since 2023).

– Member of the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England (since 2023).

CONFERENCE PAPERS

I have presented peer-reviewed papers at the following conferences:

– Codici e confini. Quando migrano culture e testi, University of Trento, 20–21 November 2019.

– Leeds Virtual International Medieval Congress 2020, University of Leeds, 6–9 July 2020: Cultural Variants in King Horn.

– XII Cardiff Conference on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages. The Medieval Translator. Fragmentation and Inclusion, University of Bologna, 22–25 June 2021: Translation, Function, Semantics. From the Romance of Horn to King Horn.

– XLIX Annual Conference of the Associazione Italiana di Filologia Germanica, University of Naples “L’Orientale”, 7–9 June 2023.

– 13th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME 13), University of Málaga, 8–10 May 2024.