Pierantonio ZANOTTI
- Position
- Full Professor
- Roles
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Director's Delegate for Teaching and Education
- Telephone
- 041 234 9570
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pierantonio.zanotti@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/pierantonio.zanotti (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 hours
Office Hours – First Semester 2026/27
Weekly office hours will be held on Thursdays, 2:30–4:30 p.m., starting September 10, 2026.
Students are requested to indicate their intention to attend office hours in this table at least 24 hours in advance.
In-person office hours are held at San Sebastiano, in the office-hours area on the second floor. Upon request, office hours may be held online.
To reach the office-hours area, go up to the second floor using the staircase near the Padoan Classroom at San Sebastiano. Once you reach prof. Zanotti's office (Seb 117), turn left. The office-hours tables are located there. If the professor is not present, please knock on the door of the office.
For prospective thesis candidates:
Students interested in writing their thesis under my supervision are asked to carefully read the resources available on this Moodle page:
https://moodle.unive.it/course/view.php?id=9036
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]
- Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
- Internazionale: Estremo Oriente
- Known languages
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(scritto: madrelingua parlato: madrelingua)
- Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
- International Yearbook of Futurism Studies; G|A|M|E - Game as Art, Media, Entertainment
- Main departmental research areas and fields
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Area:
Letteratura Linea:
Teoria letteraria
Area: Lingue e letterature dell’Asia Orientale Linea: giapponese
- 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
Carolina NEGRI
- Progetto per la realizzazione di un volume su Akutagawa Ryunosuke in occasione del centenaio dalla morte
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- SSD:
- L-OR/22
- Other members of the research group:
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Luisa BIENATI
- Progetto per la realizzazione di un'antologia della critica giapponese moderna
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- SSD:
- L-OR/22
- Other members of the research group:
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Luisa BIENATI
- 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
Carolina NEGRI
- 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
Carolina NEGRI
- Traduzione e commento della raccolta poetica "Kanashiki gangu" di Ishikawa Takuboku
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- SSD:
- L-OR/22
- Other members of the research group:
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Edoardo GERLINI
Publication highlights
zanotti pierantonio Akutagawa Ryūnosuke , Storia della letteratura giapponese. Dalle riforme Meiji all'era digitale, Torino, Einaudi, pp. 154-166 (ISBN 9788806259327)
2026,
Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5109312
zanotti pierantonio Gli anni Venti e la «democrazia Taishō» , Storia della letteratura giapponese. Dalle riforme Meiji all'era digitale, Torino, Einaudi, pp. 122-142 (ISBN 9788806259327)
2026,
Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5109311
zanotti pierantonio Il consolidamento del paradigma modernista , Storia della letteratura giapponese. Dalle riforme Meiji all'era digitale, Torino, Einaudi, pp. 41-62 (ISBN 9788806259327)
2026,
Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5109287
Zanotti Pierantonio Il romanzo d’investigazione , Storia della letteratura giapponese. Dalle riforme Meiji all'era digitale, Torino, Einaudi, pp. 216-226 (ISBN 9788806259327)
2026,
Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5109315
Zanotti pierantonio Il «secondo naturalismo»: «Hakai» e «Futon» , Storia della letteratura giapponese. Dalle riforme Meiji all'era digitale, Torino, Einaudi, pp. 69-80 (ISBN 9788806259327)
2026,
Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5109308
List of publications
Curriculum vitae
Pierantonio Zanotti (1979) is Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Literature in the Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca' Foscari University.
He earned his laurea in "Oriental Languages and Civilization" from Ca' Foscari University in 2003 (summa cum laude). After a period of study at the University of Tokyo (2004-2006), he received his Ph.D. in "Oriental Studies" from Ca' Foscari University in 2009, with a thesis on the poet Yamamura Bochō (1884-1924).
At Ca' Foscari, he has been teaching elementary Japanese language and modern and pre-modern Japanese literature since 2009.
He has spent periods of study and research in Japan and the USA. He has received fellowships and grants from the Japan Foundation (2012) and the Getty Foundation, Los Angeles (2015). He has taught at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2014) under the Erasmus Program.
His field of research is modern Japanese literature (1868-1945). He focuses on poetry, modernism, and the reception accorded to European avant-gardes, especially Italian Futurism. He has published extensively on the history of Futurism in Japan, and on authors such as Yamamura Bochō, Tayama Katai, Hirato Renkichi, Kanbara Tai, and F. T. Marinetti.
He is a contributing editor of the International Yearbook of Futurism Studies (De Gruyter).
His faculty duties in the Department of Asian and North African Studies include: coordinator of teaching activities (since 2022), member of the "Collegio di Dottorato" in Asian and African Studies (since 2021), coordinator of Quality Assurance (2017-2022), area coordinator for student abroad mobility (2017-2019), member of the Research Committee (2013-2015, 2018), and area contact for the East Asia library (2014-2019).
Academia.edu: https://unive.academia.edu/PierantonioZanotti
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