Carolina NEGRI
- Position
- Full Professor
- Roles
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Rector's Delegate for the University Library System
Director's Delegate for the Department Quality Assurance
President of the SBA
- Telephone
- 041 234 9513
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carolina.negri@unive.it
- Academic discipline
- Japanese Language and Literature, Korean Language and Literature [ASIA-01/G]
- Website
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https://www.unive.it/people/carolina.negri (personal record)
- Office
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Department of Asian and North African Studies
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dsaam
Where: San Sebastiano
- Office
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University Library Services
(President)
Website: https://www.unive.it/libraries
Office hours
Notices
Teaching activity current year
Teaching activity previous years
Activities and research skills
- Academic discipline
- Lingua e letteratura del Giappone, lingua e letteratura della Corea [ASIA-01/G]
- Settore Scientifico Disciplinare (SSD) affine
- LINGUE E LETTERATURE DEL GIAPPONE E DELLA COREA [L-OR/22]
- Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
- Internazionale: Europa, America Settentrionale, Estremo Oriente
- Known languages
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Giapponese
(scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
Inglese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
- Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
- Partecipazione al comitato scientifico della collana Ca' Foscari Japanese Studies (Art and Literature)
- Main departmental research areas and fields
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Area:
Letteratura Linea:
Teoria letteraria
Area: Lingue e letterature dell’Asia Orientale Linea: giapponese
Area: Studi culturali Linea: Studi culturali
- Letteratura classica giapponese
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- Description:
- Japanese Classical Literature
- Keywords:
- Literature, Asian literature, Literary criticism
- Filologia giapponese
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- Description:
- Japanese Philology
- Keywords:
- Literature, Asian literature, Philology
- Traduzione dal giapponese classico e moderno
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- Description:
- Translation from Classical and Modern Japanese
- Keywords:
- Literature, Asian literature, Languages
- Insegnamento della lingua giapponese classica e moderna
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- Description:
- Teaching of Classical and Modern Japanese
- Keywords:
- Languages, Linguistics, Philology
- Diario di Murasaki Shikibu (XI secolo)
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- SSD:
- L-OR/22
- Donne e istituzioni nel Giappone del medioevo
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- SSD:
- L-OR/22
- Grammatica della lingua giapponese classica
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- SSD:
- L-OR/22
- Other members of the research group:
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Paolo CALVETTI
- Il monachesimo femminile nel Giappone del medioevo
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- SSD:
- L-OR/22
- Il ruolo della dama di corte in Giappone tra l'XI e il XIII secolo
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- SSD:
- L-OR/22
- Images from the past. Intertextuality in Japanese Premodern Literature
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- SSD:
- L-OR/22
- La produzione letteraria della monaca Abutsu (1225-1283)
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- SSD:
- L-OR/23
- Progetto di realizzazione di un manuale di storia della letteratura giapponese
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- SSD:
- ASIA-01/G
- Other members of the research group:
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Luisa BIENATI
Edoardo GERLINI
Pierantonio ZANOTTI
- Storia della letteratura giapponese
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- SSD:
- L-OR/22
- Other members of the research group:
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Luisa BIENATI
Edoardo GERLINI
Pierantonio ZANOTTI
- Storia della letteratura moderna e contemporanea giapponese
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- SSD:
- L-OR/22
- Other members of the research group:
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Luisa BIENATI
Edoardo GERLINI
Pierantonio ZANOTTI
Publication highlights
(a cura di) Carolina Negri Storia della letteratura giapponese. Dalle origini all'Ottocento , Torino, Einaudi, pp. 3-487 (ISBN 978-88-06-25931-0)
2025,
Curatorship - ARCA card: 10278/5100450
Carolina Negri Sei Shōnagon's Makura no sōshi. A guide for women’s sociality in 11th century Japan in KERVAN, vol. 28, pp. 423-441 (ISSN 1825-263X)
- URL correlato 2024,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5088047
Carolina Negri Michinaga no kage no moto de. Murasaki Shikibu nikki ni okeru sekkan seiji no hōhō to chūgū saron no itonami no igi [In the shadow of Fujiwara no Michinaga. Political Strategies and the Role of the Empress’ Salon in the Murasaki Shikibu nikki] , Nihon koten bungaku o sekai ni hiraku [Opening Classical Japanese Literature to the World],, Tokyo, Benseisha, pp. 49-68 (ISBN 978-4-585-39014-5)
2022,
Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5012154
Carolina Negri Tra corte, casa e monastero. La vita di una donna nel Giappone del Medioevo. , Venezia, Ca' Foscari Edizioni, vol. 15, pp. 13-136 (ISBN 978-88-6969-536-0) (ISSN 2610-8992)
DOI 2021,
Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/3745946
Carolina Negri Izayoi nikki. The History of a Disputed Heritage in the Kamakura Period (1185-1333) in ANNALI DI CA' FOSCARI. SERIE ORIENTALE, vol. 56, pp. 563-592 (ISSN 2385-3042)
DOI 2020,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/3728324
List of publications
Curriculum vitae
Education and national scientific qualifications
• 2021: National Scientific Qualification for the position of Full Professor in Academic Discipline Group 10/ASIA-01 – Cultures and Languages of Central, South, and East Asia, Academic Discipline ASIA-01/G – Japanese and Korean Languages and Literatures (valid 2021–2033).
• 2014: National Scientific Qualification for the position of Associate Professor in Academic Discipline Group 10/ASIA-01 – Cultures and Languages of Central, South, and East Asia, Academic Discipline ASIA-01/G – Japanese and Korean Languages and Literatures.
• 2000: PhD in Oriental Studies (East Asian Civilisations, 11th cycle), University of Naples L’Orientale. Dissertation: "The Stepdaughter Theme in Japanese Literature: Origins and Developments from the Nara to the Heian Period"; supervisor: Prof. Paolo Calvetti.
• 1996: Master of Arts in Japanese Literature and Philology, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, grade A. Thesis: "Kawabata Yasunari’s Sumiyoshi and Its Relationship with Classical Japanese Literature"; supervisor: Prof. Ōtsuka Tsuneki.
• 1994–1996: Master of Arts programme in Japanese Literature and Philology, supported by a MEXT scholarship, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo.
• 1992–1994: Research student supported by a MEXT scholarship, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo.
• 1991: Degree in Japanese Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities, University of Naples L’Orientale, 110/110 cum laude. Thesis: : "Shingeki and Mishima Yukio’s Dramatic Theories"; supervisor: Prof. Emanuele Ciccarella.
Research funding, scholarships, and awards
• 2025–2026: Erasmus+ Staff Mobility for Teaching grant for teaching activities at Université Paris Cité and INALCO, 16–20 February 2026.
• 2019–2021: Japan Foundation, Support Program for Japanese Studies Projects; project director of "Images from the Past: Intertextuality in Japanese Premodern Literature".
• 2018: Research grant from the National Institute of Japanese Literature, Tokyo, 1 October–30 December 2018. Project: "Women’s Lives in Medieval Japan through Literary Production".
• 2018: Erasmus+ ICM Staff Mobility for Training grant, Waseda University, Tokyo, 14 June–6 July 2018. Project: "The Izayoi nikki: The Story of a Disputed Inheritance in Medieval Japan"; host scholar: Prof. Tabuchi Kumiko.
• 2017: Erasmus+ ICM Staff Mobility for Training grant, Waseda University, Tokyo, 14–29 November 2017. Project: "The Izayoi nikki: The Story of a Disputed Inheritance in Medieval Japan"; host scholar: Prof. Tabuchi Kumiko.
• 2015: Ca’ Foscari University of Venice Overseas mobility grant, Waseda University, Tokyo, 5 November–2 December 2015. Project: "The Nun Abutsu: Her Life and Works"; host scholar: Prof. Fukuda Toshiyuki.
• 2012: Ca’ Foscari University of Venice Overseas mobility grant, California State University, Long Beach, 6–20 November 2012.
• 2011: Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowship, Gakushūin Women’s College, Tokyo, 31 January–11 March 2011. Project: "The Murasaki Shikibu nikki: Translation and Critical Introduction"; host scholar: Prof. Itō Moriyuki.
• 2007: Guglielmo and Mario Scalise Prize for literary translation for Le memorie della dama di Sarashina (Venice, Marsilio, 2005).
• 2005: Japan Foundation scholarship for a specialist course for overseas teachers of Japanese, Japan Foundation, Japanese-Language Institute, Urawa, 6 July–26 August 2005.
• 1994–1996: Extension of the MEXT scholarship to complete the M.A. in Japanese Literature and Philology, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo.
• 1992–1994: MEXT scholarship for research students, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo.
Study and research experience abroad
• 2023: Visiting Scholar, Gakushūin Women’s College, Tokyo, 8–29 November 2023. Project: "History of Japanese Literature: From Its Origins to the Nineteenth Century"; host scholar: Prof. Itō Moriyuki.
• 2018: Visiting Scholar, National Institute of Japanese Literature, Tokyo, 1 October–30 December 2018. Project: "Women’s Lives in Medieval Japan through Literary Production".
• 2018: Visiting Scholar, Erasmus+ ICM Staff Mobility for Training, Waseda University, Tokyo, 14 June–6 July 2018. Project: "The Izayoi nikki: The Story of a Disputed Inheritance in Medieval Japan"; host scholar: Prof. Tabuchi Kumiko.
• 2017: Visiting Scholar, Erasmus+ ICM Staff Mobility for Training, Waseda University, Tokyo, 14–29 November 2017. Project: "The Izayoi nikki: The Story of a Disputed Inheritance in Medieval Japan"; host scholar: Prof. Tabuchi Kumiko.
• 2015: Visiting Scholar, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice Overseas programme, Waseda University, Tokyo, 5 November–2 December 2015. Project: "The Nun Abutsu: Her Life and Works"; host scholar: Prof. Fukuda Toshiyuki.
• 2012: Visiting Scholar, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice Overseas programme, California State University, Long Beach, 6–20 November 2012.
• 2011: Visiting Scholar, Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowship Program, Gakushūin Women’s College, Tokyo, 31 January–11 March 2011. Project: "The Murasaki Shikibu nikki and the Empress’s Literary Salon"; host scholar: Prof. Itō Moriyuki.
• 2005: Specialist course for overseas teachers of Japanese, Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Institute, Urawa, 6 July–26 August 2005.
Academic career and teaching experience
• Since 2026: Full Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
• 2026: Visiting Professor of Classical Japanese Literature and Classical Japanese Language at Université Paris Cité and INALCO, 16–20 February 2026, within the Erasmus+ Staff Mobility for Teaching programme.
• 2015–2026: Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
• 2010–2014: Tenured Researcher in Japanese Language and Literature, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, from 20 December 2010.
• 2008–2010: Tenured Researcher in Japanese Language and Literature, University of Salento, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Department of Philology, Linguistics and Literature.
• 2005–2008: Researcher in Japanese Language and Literature, University of Salento, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Department of Philology, Linguistics and Literature.
• 2001–2005: Lecturer in Japanese Language and Literature at ISIAO, Rome.
• 2004: Lecturer in Japanese-to-Italian translation at the European School of Literary Translation, Città della Scienza, Naples.
• 2001–2011: Adjunct Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities, University of Naples L’Orientale, Department of Asian Studies.
• 2000–2001: Adjunct Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Cagliari.
Subjects taught: premodern and modern Japanese literature; Japanese language at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels; classical Japanese; translation from Japanese into Italian and from Italian into Japanese.
Institutional and professional appointments
• Since 2026: President of the University Library System and Rector’s Delegate for the University Library System.
• Since 2025: Member of the Executive Board of CUSTAA, the Italian University Council for Asian and African Studies.
• Since 2023: Member of the Faculty Board of the PhD Programme in Asian and African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
• Since 2023: Member of the Quality Assurance Group of the PhD Programme in Asian and African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
• 2023-2026: Member of the Executive Committee of the Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
• 2022-2026: Department Director’s Delegate for Quality Assurance, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
• Since 2018: ANVUR Evaluation Expert, disciplinary expert profile.
• 2016–2023: Member of the Research Committee, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
• 2015–2017: Coordinator of the LICSAAM Bachelor’s Degree Programme, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
• 2015–2017: Member of the Executive Committee of the Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
• 2014–2018: Member of the Teaching Committee of the LICAAM Master’s Degree Programme, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
• 2013–2019: Member of the Executive Board of the Italian Association for Japanese Studies (AISTUGIA).
• 2010–2014: Member of the Executive Board of the Italian Association for Japanese Language Teaching (AIDLG).
• 2007–2010: Member of the Faculty Board of the PhD Programme in Literatures and Philologies (cycles XIII–XVI), University of Salento.
Internationalisation activities
• Since 2025: Academic coordinator of the departmental faculty and student exchange agreement with Tōhoku University, Sendai.
• Since 2021: Academic coordinator of the university-wide faculty and student exchange agreement with Gakushūin University, Tokyo.
• 2026-2029, 2022–2025, 2019–2022, and 2016–2018: Academic coordinator of the Erasmus+ ICM programme with Waseda University, Tokyo.
• 2011–2015: Academic coordinator of Overseas international scientific and cultural cooperation agreements for Japanese Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
• 2011–2014: Erasmus coordinator for Japanese Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
Public engagement activities
• Since 2015: Annual organisation of the "Atelier Giappone", cultural seminars for tourism professionals, in collaboration with EBT – Ente Bilaterale del Turismo Veneziano.
• 2025–2026: Academic coordinator for Ca’ Foscari University of Venice of Ei Arakawa-Nash’s project "Grass Babies, Moon Babies" for the Japan Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Art Biennale.
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