MAIOLINI ELENA VALENTINA

Born in Brescia in 1985, she obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Literature from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (supervisor Prof. Pietro Gibellini); she then completed a Master’s program in Modern and Contemporary Italian Philology and Literature (supervisor Prof. Francesco Bruni). She holds a Doctor Europaeus degree and a PhD in Italian Studies and Medieval Classical Philology, both obtained in 2015 at the end of a joint course between the Ca’ Foscari of Venice and the Sorbonne, with a project focusing on Alessandro Manzoni as a writer and a reader of the 17th century (supervisors Pietro Gibellini and Andrea Fabiano). She has worked as a lecturer in Venice, Verona, and the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. She was a research fellow at Ca’ Foscari (supervisor Michela Rusi) with the support of the Fondazione Il Vittoriale degli Italiani. She is qualified for the position of Associate professor in the disciplinary areas 10/F1, 10/F2, 10/F3 and 10/F4, she is Professor in Contemporary Italian literature at the University of Insubria.
She has worked on dialect poetry, Claude-Charles Fauriel, Alessandro Manzoni, Niccolò Tommaseo, Gabriele d’Annunzio and Giovita Scalvini. She published the Guido Morselli's Dizionario dietetico and the complete collection of Assunta Finiguerra's poems.
Vice president of the committee responsible for the national ed. of the works of d’Annunzio, and scientific secretary of the d’Annunzio Digital Encyclopaedia, she is ordinary member of the Ateneo di Brescia, the Associazione per la storia della lingua italiana, the Associazione degli Italianisti, the Centro nazionale di studi dannunziani of Pescara, and of the scientific committee of the International Research Center for Local Histories and Cultural Diversities of Insubria.
She is one of the directors of «Letteratura e dialetti», part of the scientific committee of «Archivio d’Annunzio», «Ermeneutica letteraria», «Rivista di letteratura italiana», «Studi Medievali e Moderni».