Olga TRIBULATO

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Olga Tribulato has been Full Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice since 2021, where she previously served as Associate Professor (2017–2021) and as a Researcher (2011–2017).

She graduated in Classical Studies from Sapienza University of Rome in 2000. She subsequently obtained an M.Phil. (2001) and a Ph.D. (2005) in Classics from the University of Cambridge. In 2002–2003 she spent four months as a visiting researcher at the Institut für Linguistik und Historisch-Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft at the University of Cologne. From 2005 to 2007 she was Woodhouse Junior Research Fellow in Classics at St John’s College, Oxford, and from 2007 to 2009 she was Temporary Lecturer in Philology and Linguistics in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge, where she taught courses in Greek dialectology, Homeric linguistics, Greek and Latin morphology, introduction to comparative linguistics, and beginner’s Greek. During the same period, she served as Director of Studies in Classics at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where she was also Bye-Fellow in Classics and taught Greek and Latin translation and classical linguistics.

In 2010 she was awarded a “Rita Levi Montalcini – Rientro dei Cervelli” fellowship, which enabled her to take up a research position at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice as of 31 March 2011.

In autumn 2019 she received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council for the project Purism in Antiquity: Theories of Language in Greek Atticist Lexica and their Legacy (PURA).

She has held numerous institutional roles at Ca’ Foscari, including Director of the Ca’ Foscari School for International Education (2021–2024), member of the Ca’ Foscari ERC Board (2021–present), and member of the Scientific Committee of Edizioni Ca’ Foscari (2020–2023). Since 2013 she has been a member of the doctoral board of the PhD programme in Scienze dell'antichità (Trieste–Udine–Venice).

Her research interests focus on the history of the Greek language from its Indo-European origins to the Roman period. Her doctoral research addressed issues of nominal compounding, to which she has devoted several articles. This work led to the monograph Ancient Greek Verb-Initial Compounds: Their Diachronic Development in the Greek Compound System, published by De Gruyter in 2015. Her interest in linguistic contact between Greek and other languages resulted in the volume Language and Linguistic Contact in Ancient Sicily (Cambridge University Press, 2012). At the same time, she has worked on Greek literary languages and on the linguistic analysis of literary and epigraphic texts: she contributed to the volume Storia delle lingue letterarie greche (ed. A. C. Cassio) and collaborates on the AXON project for an Italian collection of Greek historical inscriptions (directed by S. De Vido).

She is also among the authors of Italian secondary-school literature textbooks, including Il rosso e il blu: Letteratura, lingua, arte (Signorelli, 2012), Gli studi leggiadri (Signorelli, 2015), and Le porte della letteratura (Signorelli, 2017), for which she edited volume 2 (from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century).

Within the framework of the PURA project, she has authored (with F. Favi and L. Prauscello) the monograph Ancient Greek Purism 1: The Roots of Atticism (De Gruyter, 2024) and edited the volume New Approaches to Phrynichus’ Praeparatio sophistica (with F. Favi and A. Pellettieri, De Gruyter, 2025). She is currently working on two further monographs (The Age of Atticism and The Legacy of Atticism).

She is editor of the Digital Encyclopedia of Atticism (www.atticism.eu) and a member of the scientific advisory boards of the journals Glotta, Lexis, and AXON, as well as of the book series Trends in Classics – Greek and Latin Linguistics (De Gruyter).

For a complete list of publications, see the relevant page on the unive.it website.