Valeria MELIS

In 2014, I obtained a PhD in Classical and Modern Cultures (Classical Curriculum) from the University of Turin, defending a thesis entitled Traces of Sophistic and Legal Debate in Euripides' Orestes. Between 2019 and 2020, I completed a Master in Digital Humanities at Ca' Foscari University Venice.

Over the years, I have benefited from research contracts and grants at the Universities of Cagliari, Ca' Foscari Venice and Genoa, which have allowed me to delve deeper into my research on the ancient world and the digital humanities. From March 2020 to November 2022, I was a research fellow in the Book Batch One project, focusing on personalized digital and paper books. In 2022, I received an Erasmus+ grant and a grant from the Stiftung Humanismus Heute (Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg) to collaborate on the KomFrag project (Prof. Bernhard Zimmermann). I held a research fellowship at the University of Genoa within the PRIN (Project of National Interest) “Laugh Tracks: Greek Comedy in Ptolemaic Egypt” (SSD: L-FIL-LET/05, Classical Philology; Principal Investigator: Prof. Serena Perrone). I have taught at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the University “Kore” of Enna, and I currently teach at the Universities of Cagliari and Sassari. I co-direct, together with Alberto Camerotto (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) and Alice Bonandini (University of Genoa), the Paradoxa series published by De Bastiani Editore; I am a member of national and international scientific and editorial boards; and I serve on the editorial board of the journal Lexis (Ca’ Foscari Edizioni).

My research interests primarily revolve around Greek theater (particularly Euripides and Aristophanes), the interactions between theater and Athenian law, and the language of tragic and comic female characters. I have also studied Thucydides, Lucretius and his models (Homer and Ennius), Aristotle's theories on Euripidean and Aristophanic theater, ancient rhetoric, and argumentative writing. On these topics, I have written several articles for journals and books, authored the monographs Le amiche di Lisistrata. Lingua, genere, comicità nel tempo (Morlacchi U.-P. 2021, with Rita Fresu), Antigone ed Emone. Tra legge umana e norma divina (RCS 2024), and the manual Scripta manent. Dieci lezioni sulla scrittura argomentativa (Mimesis 2021, with Francesca Ervas and Elisabetta Gola). I have also worked on ancient biography, particularly that of Plutarch, and its reception.

In Venice, I am part of the research groups Aletheia and Classici Contro (Professors Alberto Camerotto and Filippomaria Pontani) and Wiki-Musisque Deoque (Prof. Martina Venuti). I have delivered lectures at various national and international universities and conferences (including Cagliari, Cassino, Bologna, Venice, Turin, Manchester, Oxford, Tel Aviv, Rio de Janeiro, Coimbra).

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