Flavia PALMA

Flavia Palma is a Lecturer (RtdB) in Italian Literature at Ca’ Foscari Department of Humanities and participate in the PhD Committee of the Italian Studies programme.

She obtained a BA in Lettere (L-10) in 2011 and a MA in Tradizione e interpretazione dei testi letterari (LM-14) in 2013 from the University of Verona, with first class honours in both cases. She attended the PhD course in Philology, Literature and Linguistics at the same University, carrying out various research periods in England, and in 2017 was awarded her Doctorate and the combined certificate of Doctor Europaeus.

She was Postdoctoral Researcher of Italian Literature at the University of Verona (2017-2018; 2019-2020) and Ca’ Foscari (2021-2022), where she participated in the 2017 PRIN project Re.Novella. Il genere novella nel Rinascimento italiano: repertorio, database e inquadramento storiografico. In 2019 and in 2023 she also collaborated on the Progetto Mambrino at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Verona.
 
In 2024 she was a Lecturer (RtdA) in Italian Literature at the Department of Humanities of the University of Ferrara, where she took part in the ERC Project The German Network. Primo Levi’s Correspondence with German Readers and Intellectuals - LeviNeT (PI: Martina Mengoni).
 
She was also Adjunct Professor of Italian Literature at Ca’ Foscari (Department of Humanities and School for International Education) and the University of Verona (Departments of Cultures and Civilizations and Foreign Languages and Literatures).
 
She holds the National Scientific Qualification for the functions of Associate Professor in the sector 10/F1 – Italian Literature.
 
She participated in several national and international conferences in Italy and abroad (London, Oxford, Tours). In 2019 she attended the summer school devoted to Giovanni Boccaccio and organised in Certaldo by the Ente Nazionale Giovanni Boccaccio.
 
She has been a member of the AdI (Associazione degli Italianisti) since 2018 and in 2020 she has joined the Research Network for the History of European Periodicals.

She is also scientific assistant (‘redazione scientifica’) for the peer-reviewed academic journal Generi. Rivista internazionale di letteratura italiana.

Her research is devoted to Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature and focuses on the following topics:

• Giovanni Boccaccio’s vernacular works and their Renaissance afterlife;
• the Italian novella and its forms;
• the reception of the Italian novella tradition in Europe, with special attention to Elizabethan and Jacobean England;
• Niccolò Granucci's literary production.

She is also interested in eighteenth-century journalism and Venetian novel. She studied the correspondence between Primo Levi and German readers and intellectuals, collaborating on the ERC project LeviNeT and editing (with Martina Mengoni and Alice Gardoncini) the letters exchanged between Levi and Hermann Langbein for the project’s portal [https://www.levinet.eu].
 
She is the author of the book Novelle, paratesti e cornici. Novellieri italiani e inglesi tra Medioevo e Rinascimento (Firenze, Cesati, 2019) and several book chapters and journal articles («Studi sul Boccaccio», «Giornale storico della letteratura italiana», «Schede umanistiche», «La parola del testo», «Italian Studies», «Rivista di letteratura italiana», «Lettere italiane», etc...). She also published the critical and commented edition of Niccolò Granucci's La piacevol notte e 'l lieto giorno (Bologna, Pàtron, 2022).