CURRENT RESEARCH:
Japanese pre-modern social history (social, travel and national history in Tokugawa Japan); historical bibliography
CURRENT POSITIONS
Adjunct
Professor, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Asian and North
African Studies. Courses taught: History of Japan 1, Japanese Language (September 2013-current)
Adjunct
Professor, University of Bologna, School of Arts, Humanities and cultural Heritage. Courses taught: History of Eastern Asia (September 2014 - current)
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Seal
of Excellence, awarded on April 25th, 2017 for the proposal Travel
in Tokugawa Period Japan (1603-1868): Identity , Nation and Social
Transformation (Horizon 2020’ s Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions call
H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, September 14th, 2016)
Scholarship awarded by the Kokubungaku Kenkyu Shiryokan (National
Institute of Japanese Literature, Tokyo, Japan)(February 2017)
Visiting scholarship at the John Rylands Research Institute of Manchester
(UK), with the project titled “Travellers and cities in the Edo Period:
Leisure, Religion and Explorations in an Evolving Geographical Landscape (May 2016 - June 2016)
Scholarship awarded by the Art Research Center of Ritsumeikan University
in Kyoto (Japan). (February 2011)
Entrance scholarship awarded by the
European Social Fund for the Ph.D. project titled Self through the Other. Production,
circulation and reception in Europe of written sources on Japan in the
"Christian century". (January 2009 - April 2013)
INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS
September 2015 – February 2017: Research Assistant for the Survey and
Research on the Preservation and Publication of the Mario Marega Documents in
the Collection of the Vatican Library, organized by Kokubungaku Kenkyū
Shiryōkan (National Institute of Japanese Literature, Tokyo, Japan).
October 2015 – May 2016: Research Assistant for the ROBINba
project (the Role of Books in Non-Bibliometric Areas), a joint project between
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, University of Macerata, Université de
Bretagne-Sud, and EvalHUM, funded by ANVUR (National Agency for the Evaluation
of the University and Research Systems) and aimed at summarizing current
theoretical and practical stances across Europe (and beyond) on the relevance
of books and book chapters as a dissemination tool in social sciences and
humanities.
April 2011 – February 2015: Project manager for the
digitization of the Marega Collection of Japanese Antiquarian Materials in the Don
Bosco Library (Università Pontificia Salesiana, Rome)., completed in partnership with the Art Research
Center of Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto.
February 24-25, 2014: Research
assistant in the digitization project of the Fusco private ukiyo-e collection
(Bologna), in partnership with the Art Research Center of Ritsumeikan
University, Kyoto.
September 28th – October 2nd 2009. March 1st
– 5th 2010. September 21st – 24th 2010.
February 28th – March 4th 2011: Research Assistant in the
digitization project of the Japanese prints and printed books in the collection
of Ca’ Pesaro Oriental Art Museum (Venice), organized by Ca’ Foscari University
(Venice) and Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto).
September - October 2007: Committee member for the organization of the Fifth edition of the
cultural event “Ottobre giapponese” (Ravenna)
OTHER SCIENTIFIC AND
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
February 2013 – September 2017: Adjunct
Professor, University of Bergamo, Department of Foreign Languages, Literature
and Culture. Courses taught: Japanese Literature 1 and 2
April 2011 – February 2015: Assistant curator of the Marega Collection of Japanese Antiquarian Materials in the Don
Bosco Library (Università Pontificia Salesiana, Rome).
March 2011 – January 2013 : Teaching
Assistant at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Asian and
North African Studies
QUALIFICATIONS and TRAINING
February 2017: Participation to the workshop "Introductory course to paleography and diplomatic of Japanese archival documents (Vatican Library, Rome)
2013: PhD in
Languages, Cultures and Societies, Department of East Asian Studies, Faculty of
Foreign Languages and Literatures, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. Thesis: Self through the Other. Production,
circulation and reception in Europe of written sources on Japan in the
"Christian century".
The project involved extended
bibliographical and textual research on Japanese and Japan-related books
circulated in Italy (and Europe) between the Sixteenth and the Seventeenth
Century and the creation of a database, including metadata about the
Japan-related or Japanese documental (historical and literary) materials kept
in Venetian libraries and museums.
February 2011: Participation
to the Brush-up Workshop for Curators in
the Digital Age, held at the Art Research Center of Ritsumeikan University
in Kyoto (Japan). The workshop involved intensive training on the digitization,
preservation and cataloguing of Tokugawa books and prints.
May 2010: Participation
to the workshop Japanese Antiquarian
Materials: an introduction to printed books and ukiyo-e of the Edo Period,
held at the Marega Collection of Japanese Antiquarian Materials (Don Bosco
Library, Università Pontificia Salesiana, Rome). The workshop involved
intensive bibliographical
training on Tokugawa printed books, under the supervision of professors Peter
Kornicki, Laura Moretti and Ellis Tinios.
2008: Master
degree in Japanese Studies, Department of East Asian Studies, Faculty of
Foreign Languages and Literatures, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. Thesis: Decostruire la storia nazionale giapponese:
la “nuova” storiografia di Amino Yoshihiko (Deconstructing Japanese national
history: Amino Yoshihiko’s “new” historiography). Final
grade: 110/110 summa cum laude.Main focuses of research: pre-modern
and modern history (centering on questions such as the historical intercourse
between Japan and Europe in the late Tokugawa and early Meiji periods and the
building of Japanese national identity), contemporary Japanese historiography
and the use of primary sources in historical research.
2006: Bachelor
degree in Japanese Studies, Department of East Asian Studies, Faculty of
Foreign Languages and Literatures, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. Graduation thesis title: 明治時代の日本の政治における「和魂洋才」. (“Wakon Yōsai” (Japanese spirit, Western
technology) in Meiji Period Japan) Final grade: 110/110 summa cum laude.
SELECTED INVITED PRESENTATIONS
“Travel in Tokugawa Japan:
Identity and Social Transformation." 2017 EAJS Conference. Lisbon, August 30th – September 2nd
2017).
「イタリアにおける十六～十七世紀の日本の跡：刊行物やアーカイブ資料」 (Traces of Sixteenth and Seventeenth century
Japan in Italy: printed works and archival materials). Doctoral Workshop Japanese Culture
Studies organized by Ca’ Foscari
University of Venice, Department of Asian and North African Studies, in
cooperation with the International Research Center for Japanese Studies
(Kyoto). Venice, March 7th, 2016.
“Da “i”
a “yaban”: la negoziazione del concetto
di barbarie in epoca Meiji." 2015 AISTUGIA Conference. Catania, September 24th
– 26 th 2015.
“Cataloguing and digitization
of Japanese Antiquarian books and prints.” Marega Collection of Japanese
Antiquarian Materials,
Rome. June 5th 2014
