Lorenzo CITTADINI

EDUCATION

• PhD in Linguistics, Literature and Translation (Curriculum: Modern Languages and Cultures),
  University of Málaga (2023).
  Supervisor: Prof. Giovanni Caprara (Italian Language and Culture);
  Co-supervisor: Prof. Alessandro Scarsella (Comparative Literature).
• Master’s Degree (Laurea Magistrale) in European, American and Postcolonial Languages and Literatures
  (Curriculum: Iberian Studies),
  Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2019).
• Bachelor’s Degree (Laurea Triennale) in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation,
  Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2017).

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS

• Adjunct Scholar (Cultore della materia) in Comparative Literature, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (since 2024).
• CEDILS Certification (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) for teaching Italian as a second/foreign language (L2) (2023).
• Successful completion of the National Competitive Examination for Secondary School Teachers
  (D.D. 499/2020 and D.D. 23/2022), subject class AC24 (Spanish Language and Culture in upper secondary schools).
• Advanced Training Course / Master’s Programme in Narrative Writing, Creative Process, Writing Techniques, Editing, Journalism, Publishing and Promotion, Line Editing Workshop,
  Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (2021).
• 24 ECTS Credits for Teaching Qualification, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2020).

PUBLICATIONS

• CITTADINI, L., «Era Spagna anche la zolfara»: lo specchio del viaggio-guerra nell’Antimonio di Leonardo Sciascia, in Peloro, X (2), pp. 671–685, ISSN 2499-8923.
• CITTADINI, L. (2025), «Nei libri dormono mille canzoni». Il viaggio di Eugenio Bennato dalla letteratura alla musica, in Diacritica, 56, I.
• CITTADINI, L. (2025), Dalla poesia alla musica. La Sicilia “cantata” di Leonardo Sciascia, in Todomodo, XV.
• CITTADINI, L. (2025), “Terra di Don Quijote: pratiche, confronti e suggestioni del viaggio in Spagna di Giuseppina Fumagalli”, in Critica Letteraria.
• CITTADINI, L. (2025), Lento Mediterraneo, in La Chiave di Sophia, 27, pp. 62–64, ISBN 9788832083279.
• CITTADINI, L., Terra di Don Quijote: pratiche, confronti e suggestioni del viaggio in Spagna di Giuseppina Fumagalli, in Critica Letteraria, 206, I, pp. 169–192, ISSN 0390-0142.
• CITTADINI, L., Leonardo Sciascia. Viaggio in Italia, Salvatore Sciascia Editore (monograph).
• CITTADINI, L. (2024), “L’isola sorella: Leonardo Sciascia e Malta”, in R. Ballesteros, G. Plaza González (eds.), Insaciable azar. Palabras para Julio Neira, pp. 511–534, ISBN 9788412680577.
• CITTADINI, L. (2024), “Dante Alighieri en España. Traducciones, tradiciones y fortuna literaria del Sommo Poeta”, Entreculturas, 14, pp. 238–240, ISSN 1989-5097.
• CITTADINI, L., CAPRARA, G. (2023), “Ricezione ed analisi della prima traduzione in spagnolo de La Sicilia, il suo cuore di Leonardo Sciascia”, Babel, 48, ISSN 1277-7897.
• CITTADINI, L. (2023), «Un siciliano a Parigi». Gli itinerari francesi di Leonardo Sciascia, Comparatistica, 18, pp. 117–133, ISSN 1120-7094.
• CITTADINI, L. (2023), “Tra Roma e la Sicilia: gli incontri di Sciascia nel Fuoco nel mare”*, Todomodo, XIII, pp. 46–56, ISSN 2240-3191.
• CITTADINI, L. (2023), “Viatjant amb Sciascia. Fins i tot a Barcelona vaig buscar Sicili”, Politica & Prosa, 61, ISSN 2604-7088.
• CITTADINI, L. (2022), “Foglietti di diario. Le poesie di viaggio di Leonardo Sciascia”, Echo, 4, pp. 132–142, ISSN 2704-8659.
• CITTADINI, L. (2023), “L’immaginario western nella canzone italiana. Il caso studio de Le Strade di Tex di David Riondino”, in Il West oltre il West, IF, ISBN 9788862888028.
• CITTADINI, L. (2023), “Natàlia Romaní. La historia de la nostalgia”, Philologica Canariensia, pp. 419–422, ISSN 2386-8635.
• CITTADINI, L. (2023), Fame blu, Critica Letteraria, 201, pp. 892–895, ISSN 2035-2638.
• CITTADINI, L. (2023), Fiori selvaggi, ISBN 9788412680584.
• CITTADINI, L. (2022), “Destinazione Calabria: solo verso sud”, Altreitalie, 65, pp. 141–148, ISSN 1120-0413.
• CITTADINI, L. (2022), “Los puntos de fuga en Cuentos americanos de Rafael Ballesteros”, in En sí perdura, pp. 179–199, Renacimiento, ISBN 9788419231109.
• CITTADINI, L. (2021), “La notte, il nero e l’alcool nelle prose spagnole di Vittorio Bodini”, Diacritica, 46, pp. 53–78, ISSN 2421-115X.
• CITTADINI, L., NERI, S., PLAZA GONZÁLEZ, P.J. (2021), Preface to Volume III, Quaderni Mediterranei – Voci dal mare, La Piave Editore.
• CITTADINI, L., CAPRARA, G. (2021), Sicilia, su corazón, Málaga: El Toro Celeste.

PROFESSIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC EXPERIENCE

Research

• Member of the Interuniversity Research Group “Leonardo Sciascia and Spain” – University of Oviedo, Association of Friends of Leonardo Sciascia, and Organizing Committee for the Centenary Celebrations of Leonardo Sciascia.
• Member of the Research Group “Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature”, University of Málaga.
• Research Fellow at the Leonardo Sciascia Foundation.
• Research Collaborator, Department of Comparative Literature (editorial activities and research promotion), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

Teaching (Secondary School)

• Fixed-term teacher at IC San Polo di Piave (TV), Academic Years 2024/2025 and 2025/2026.
• Fixed-term teacher at ITC Sansovino, Oderzo (TV), Academic Years 2021/2022 and 2023/2024.
• Fixed-term teacher at IC Gorgo al Monticano (TV), Academic Year 2022/2023.
• Fixed-term teacher at Liceo Berto, Mogliano Veneto, Academic Year 2021/2022.

University Teaching

• Lecturer, “Travel Narrative: Models and Examples”, IULM University of Milan, 15 December 2025.
• Lecturer, “Pathways of Literature and Music” (30 hours), University Extension Programme, University of Málaga and the Italian Embassy in Madrid (Academic Year 2024/2025).
• Lecturer, “Introduction to Italian Travel Literature: Exchanges and Correspondences between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries” (20 hours), University Extension Programme, University of Málaga and the Italian Embassy in Madrid (Academic Year 2023/2024).
• Lecturer, “Literature and Travel” (50 hours), Degree-Granting Continuing Education Programmes (Titulaciones Propias), University Extension Programme, University of Málaga (Academic Year 2022/2023).
• Lecturer, “Literary Translation Course: Case Study Sicilia, su corazón by Leonardo Sciascia” (30 hours), University Extension Programme, University of Málaga and the Italian Embassy in Madrid (Academic Year 2021/2022).
• Lecturer, “Specialised Languages and Translation (Spanish/Italian/Spanish): Sociolinguistic Insights into Contemporary Italian” (30 hours), Degree-Granting Continuing Education Programmes (Titulaciones Propias), University Extension Programme, University of Málaga (Academic Year 2021/2022).
• Lecturer, Workshop “Vuelta al día en 80 mundos”, within the programme Formación Específica de Apoyo Educativo a las Altas Capacidades, Málaga (2021).
• Teaching Internship, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Linguistic and Comparative Cultural Studies (Supervisor: Prof. Alessandro Scarsella), from 1 March 2019 to 15 May 2019.

CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

2025

• Paper presented at the CAIS International Conference, “Il Carso of Scipio Slataper, Trieste and Border Identity”, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, 28–30 May 2026 (forthcoming).
• Paper presented at the International and Interdisciplinary Conference “Mare monstrum”, “Leonardo Sciascia and the Sea: Borders, Fears, Crises and Transformations”, University of Macerata, 24–26 February 2026 (forthcoming).
• Paper presented at the COMPALIT International Conference, “Music, Protest, Hope: Tropicalismo as Artistic Resistance in 1960s Brazil”, University of Pisa, 11–13 December 2025.
• Paper presented at the International Conference “Sciascia Today”, “From Poetry to Music: The ‘Sung’ Sicily of Leonardo Sciascia”, University of Edinburgh, 15–16 May 2025.
• Paper presented at the AATI 2025 International Conference – Raccontarsi in musica: Autobiography in Italian Song, “Tradition, Translation and Betrayal: Eugenio Bennato, the ‘Brigand’, Tells His Story”, Princeton University (USA), 25–27 April 2025.
• Paper presented at the ASELIT 2025 International Conference – Italian in Translation and to Be Translated in and beyond the Classroom, “A Journey into the Literary and Cultural Translation of Il Tempo della Nostalgia by Natàlia Romaní. Dialogue with the Translator Sara Cavarero”, University of Barcelona (Spain), 26–28 March 2025.

2024

• Paper presented at the International Conference “Giuseppina Fumagalli in Spain: Travelling through the Land of Don Quijote”, SIS Biennial Conference, Royal Holloway, University of London, 19–21 June 2024.
• Paper presented at the International Conference “Era Spagna anche la zolfara: The Travel-War Motif in Leonardo Sciascia’s Short Stories”, Student Conference “Conflict”, University of Messina, 7–8 May 2024.
• Paper presented at the *International Conference “On the Evolution of Travel Literature in the Twentieth Century: The Case of Terra di Don Quijote *by Giuseppina Fumagalli”**, XIII Italianistiktag 2024, University of Fribourg, 9 March 2024.

2022

• Book presentation and discussion with the author, Fame blu by Viola Di Grado, Racalmuto (AG), 11 August 2022.
• Paper presented at the Doctoral Days (Jornadas Doctorales), University of Málaga, 27–29 June 2022.
• Paper presented at the International Conference “Leonardo Sciascia: The Province as Metaphor”, CAIS, University of Toronto, 4 June 2022.
• Organisation and paper presentation at the International Conference Series “Lezioni Sciasciane nel Mondo”, “Leonardo Sciascia and Andalusia: Between Images and Poetry – Andalusian Resonances in Sciascia’s Work”, University of Málaga, 26 May 2022.
• Seminar, “Oral Art: Poetry, Music, Performance”, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 5 May 2022.
• Conference, “Two Suspect Voices: Pop Culture, Music, Literary Genres”, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 21 April 2022.
• Webinar, “Describing the Landscape: Travel Literature in Modern Italy”, Società Dante Alighieri, 21 April 2022.

2021

• Lecture within the seminar “Journey through Spanish Poetry”, University of Bergamo, 8 November 2021.
• Closing keynote at the International Conference “Visual Depictions of the American West”, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 17 September 2021.
• Paper presented at the Doctoral Days (Jornadas Doctorales), University of Málaga, 21–23 June 2021.
• Paper presented at the International Congress “Tradition, Modernity and Contexts in the Literary Work of Rafael Ballesteros”, University of Málaga, 17–19 June 2021.
• Paper presented at the International Conference “Sea Narratives: Representations of the Mediterranean in Italy from the Nineteenth Century to the Present”, Canadian Association for Italian Studies, 4–5 June 2021.
• Conference, “III Jornadas sobre Literatura y Creatividad”, University of Málaga, 30 April 2021.
• Conference, “Philoxenia: Travels and Travellers in Ancient and Modern Greece”, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 25 March 2021.
• Conference, “Herbaria and Travel Notebooks as Sources for Landscape Studies”, University of Genoa, 19 March 2021.
• Orientation session for doctoral students, University of Málaga.
• Conference, “Challenges in the Indexing Process of a Scientific Journal”, University of Málaga, 23 February 2021.

2020

• Conference, “Massimo Bordini Readings – Inspections of Terror: Leonardo Sciascia and Justice”, for the Centenary of Leonardo Sciascia’s Birth, 4 December 2020.
• Conference, “XI Leonardo Sciascia Colloquium: Leonardo Sciascia First, Last and Posthumous”, for the Centenary of Leonardo Sciascia’s Birth, 19–20 November 2020.
• Public reading event, “The Other Is Me: Migrant Readings Marathon”, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 30 October 2020.
• Public event, “A Long Breath: Eight Hispano-American Poem Cycles of the Twentieth Century”, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 28 October 2020.

2019

• Conference, “Migrations: Encounters among Languages, Literatures, Arts and Music”, Venice, 11–13 November 2019.
• Conference, “Production, Reception, Collecting and Best Practices: Twentieth-Century Editions”, Venice, 28 March 2019.
• Lecture, “Campus Treviso Meetings”, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 28 March 2019.
• III Seminar on Andalusian Language and Culture, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 25 February 2019.

2018

• Conference, “Mediterraneity: A Liquid Weave among Continents, Literatures and Cultures”, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 2 May 2018.
• Award Ceremony for the Alberto Dubito International Prize to Raúl Zurita, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 9 April 2018.

LINGUISTIC AND DIGITAL SKILLS

• Italian: PLIDA Certification, Level C2, Dante Alighieri Society (Rovigo).
• ICT Certifications: Coding, Tablet, Interactive Whiteboard (LIM), and Forteacher (AIMC).

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

• Music album Anime in Lattina (2025).
  Music album 22.12 (2018).
  Music album La Rosa Corsara (2017).