Curriculum

Andrea Taddei

born on June 26th, 1973

Researcher unique identifier(s)

ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-8977-5528

IDREF: http://www.idref.fr/070008876/id

  • EDUCATION

2002 PhD Cultural History (Scienze della Cultura – University of Modena and Reggio Emilia – University of Pisa). Supervisor: Riccardo Di Donato. Committee members: Alberto Maffi , Alfonso Mele, C. E. Tavilla

2000 Specialization (3 years) in Scienze della Cultura-Antropologia at Scuola Internazionale di Alti Studi – Fondazione San Carlo (Modena). Final examination passed with first class honours (Summa cum laude). Committee Members: Proff. R. Di Donato, M. Olender, P. Vidal-Naquet.

1997 Master post lauream, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa: Gestione e comunicazione dei beni culturali (final exam with full marks: 60/60)

1996 MA (Tesi di laurea) in Classics (Lettere Antiche), Supervisor: R. Di Donato – Final examinationsFinal examination passed with first class honours  and special mention (110/100 e lode, con dignità di stampa)

  • CURRENT POSITION

2016 (1 November):

Associate Professor in Ancient Greek Language and Literature

2013, December Qualification as Associate Professor in Lingua e Letteratura greca (ASN 2012)

2020, November Qualification as Full Professor in Lingua e letteratura greca (ASN 2018)

2004 – 2016: Ricercatore Confermato (Assistant Professor) in Lingua e Letteratura greca, Dipartimento di Filologia, Letteratura, Linguistica, Università di Pisa

  • PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2000 – 2004 Editor for the fields of Classics, Sociology and Anthropology at ICoN (Italian Culture on the Net –  ICoN – Italian Culture on the Net – is a Consortium of Italian Universities whose mission is the promotion and diffusion of Italian culture and the image of Italy worldwide, using telematic media

2000 Qualification as teacher of Secondary School (Greek, Latin, Italian Literature, History, Geography), after an examination promoted by the Italian Ministry of Education (Concorso a Cattedre).

  • FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2024 Invited Professor – Summer School Tokyo Oxford Programme (August 2024)

2019

  • Professeur Invité– Paris 7 Diderot (May 2019)
  • Invited Professor – Summer School University of Tokyo in Oxford (August 2019)

2015 Professeur Invité – Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales – Paris

2011 Visiting Scholar – Faculty of Classics – University of Cambridge (Summer Term)

2002 Visiting Scholar – Darwin College and Faculty of Classics -University of Cambridge (Easter-Summer Term)

1994-5: Erasmus grant – one year at Université de Lausanne

1993 (September) Scholarship of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ufficio IX) to study English Language at the University of Malta

  • SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

2004 – 2018

Dipartimento di Filologia, Letteratura, Linguistica – Università di Pisa

PhD Course in Classics and Archaeology – Curriculum Anthropology

– Appointed of Supervisor of the following PhD Thesis within PhD Programme in Classical Studies and Arhchaeology, Universities of Pisa, Firenze, Siena

– Appointed as Supervisor of 2 PhD Students at Scuola di Alti Studi – Fondazione San Carlo Modena

  • dr.ssa M. Cavallaro, Cults of Apollo in Archaic and Classical Greece. A study of historical anthropology, 2015 –
  • dr. A Stanzione, The performative contexts and the function of the Homeric Hymns,  Scuola di Alti Studi – Fondazione San Carlo Modena 2018 – 

– Appointed as co-tutor of 1 PhD Student at Paris VII Diderot (together with Prof. Fl. Gherchanoc)

dr.ssa E. Colangelo, À la recherche d’une épiclèse pour Éros : hymnographie et hymnologie d’un dieu de l’époque archaïque au Haut-Empire) Discussed on 26.9.2020

– Appointed as co-tutor of 4 PhD Student at Università di Palermo

  • dr. D.R. Scandariato, Body and Dismemberment in Ancient Greece: Ritual Functions and Literary Representations, Dottorato in Scienze della cultura, Università di Palermo. (First supervisor: Prof. N. Cusumano) Discussed on 15.12.2023
  • dr. M. Boscarino, Thinking the Other: modes of expression and stage representation of alterity in Aeschylean drama, Dottorato in Scienze della cultura, Università di Palermo, (Second cotutor. Main supervisors: Proff. A. Cozzo and N. Cusumano)2021- 
  • dr.ssa Sara Vassalle, The Aeolic lyric as ritual performance: a study of ritual practices and society structures in the corpus of Sappho and Alcaeus, 2023- Main Tutor: Prof. F. Giorgianni
  • dr.ssa  Luisa Dominici, Athenian Cults, Religious Festivals and Ritual Practices through the 4th Century BC Oratory, 2023- Main Tutor: Prof. N. Cusumano

– Appointed as second supervisor of 1 PhD Student at Uppsala University:

  • dr. F. Lepori, Formulas as source for Homeric sacrifice(s), (First supervisor: Prof. G. Ekroth), 2022-

– Appointed as a member (apart and different from those in which i was participating as main tutor) of the Final Committee of 4 PhD Thesis (subjects: Uses of Thycidides in Spanish language historiography, discussed in 2014 at the University of Pisa; Euripides’ Palamedes, discussion scheduled in January 2016 at the University of Calabria; Jean-Pierre Vernant and Marxism thought, EHESS December 2022; Acoustic Landscape in the Iliad, University of Siena-Pisa, September 2023)

MA Course in Philology and Ancient History (as teacher of Historical Anthropology of the Ancient World) at Dipartimento di Filologia, Letteratura, Linguistica – University of Pisa.

– Appointed as supervisor of MA thesis in Historical Anthropology of the Ancient World, Ancient Greek Literature, Greek Philology, Ancient History.

  • TEACHING ACTIVITIES

BA-MA University of Pisa

2005 – ongoing: Teacher of Ancient Greek Language, BA in Classics (Lettere antiche) – University of Pisa

2007 –ongoing: Teacher of Historical Anthropology of the Ancient World, MA in Philology and Ancient History – University of Pisa

2016 – ongoing: Teacher of Didactic of Ancient Greek Language and Civilisation, MA in Philology and Ancient History – University of Pisa

2005-2009: Teacher of Ancient Greek Civilization, MA in Cultural Heritage – University of Pisa

PhD

2024: September-December: Teaching activity for PhD Students in Classical Philology (University of Pisa. Topic: Athenian Festivals and Literature

2022: September: Teaching activity for PhD students in Classical Philology and Anthropology at the Universities of Pisa and Siena (Topic: Greek Festival on Stage)

2022: September: Teaching activity for PhD Students in Classics, University of Trieste

2020: September: Teaching activity for PhD students in Classical Philology and Anthropology at the Universities of Pisa and Siena (Topic: Rituals and Greek Tragedy)

2019: September: Teaching activity for PhD students in Classical Philology and Anthropology at the Universities of Pisa and Siena (Topic: Law and PreLaw in Attic Orators)

2015: (October-November) Teaching activity for PhD students in Classical Philology at the University of Pisa (topic: Greek Festivals as represented in Tragedy)

2010: Teaching activity for PhD Students in Humanities at the University of Pisa (topic: The Method of Historical Anthropology)

2008: Teaching activity for PhD students in Classical Philology at the University of Pisa (topic: Ritual and Theatre)

Teaching in Foreign Institutions

2024:

  • Invited Professor – Summer School University of Tokyo in Oxford (August 2024)

2019

  • Professeur Invité– Paris 7 Diderot (May 2019)
  • Invited Professor – Summer School University of Tokyo in Oxford (August 2019)

2015: Professeur Invité  of Greek Literature and Historical Anthropology at Centre ANHIMA – EHESS, Paris (France)

Secondary Schools

Conferences and seminars given in many Secondary Schools (Licei) in Italy

  • ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

2004, October, 1st: Scientific Secretary of the International Meeting Polivalenza d’immagini: esempi omerici (University of Pisa)

2007, December 13-14th Scientific Secretary of the National Meeting Il richiamo del testo (University of Pisa – Scuola Normale Superiore)

2013, October 25th Scientific Secretary of the National Meeting Il richiamo dei testi. Ricordi di Vincenzo Di Benedetto (University of Pisa – Scuola Normale Superiore)

2018, February 16-18th:  President of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference Antropologia storica e letteratura greca (University of Pisa)

2020, January, 25th: Scientific Commitee (with Prof. E. Medda) of the Conference Per una didattica della traduzione nel nuovo liceo classico (University of Pisa)

2020 November (to March 2021): Scientific Committee (with Prof. F. Boschetti) of Webinars “Euporia 2021” (University of Venice, CNR, Laboratorio di Antropologia del Mondo Antico)

2021 December, 9-10th: Scientific Committee (with Prof. E. Medda and dr. L. Carrara) of the Conference Il quarto dramma nel teatro attico, University of Pisa

2022 May, 26-27, Scientific Committee (with Prof. E. Medda and Prof. L. Carrara) of the Conference Il mito degli Atridi dal teatro antico all’età contemporanea, University of Pisa

2023:  December, 15, Member of the Scientific Commitee of the Conference L’insegnamento del greco antico: proposte e nuove prospettive, University of Roma 3

  • INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

2012 –ongoing Faculty member, Dipartimento di Filologia, Letteratura, Linguistica, University of Pisa

2004 – 2012 Faculty member, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, University of Pisa

2004 – Graduate Student Advisor, University of Pisa (BA and MA level)

2012 –  Member of the Faculty Committee CAFRE (Centro di Ateneo per la Formazione e la ricerca educativa) – University of Pisa

2013 – 2024 Member of the Faculty Committee for International Relations

2015 – 2024 Member of the Joint Committee of the Department of Philology, Literature, Linguistics

2016 – Member of the Joint Committee of the BA course in Humanities (Lettere)

2016 – 2022 Member of the Faculty Committee for New Students

2018

  • Vice- Director of Centro di Ateneo per la Formazione e la ricerca educativa (CAFRE)
  • Vice – President of the Degree-Course Lettere (MA) (until 2023)
  • Secondary School Teacher Training Representative at the Dipartimento of Philology, Literature, Linguistic (2016-2020)
  • Elected member for the Scientific Committee in Humanities 2018-2020

2020

  • Elected member for the Scientific Committee in Humanities 2020-2022
  • Delegated by the Director for Teaching Activities at the Department of Philology, Literature, Linguistics (2020-2024)

2022-2024: Vice- Director of Centro di Ateneo per la Formazione e la ricerca educativa (CAFRE)

2023

  • ongoing Member of the Project Board of CECIL (Centro di Eccellenza per il Contrasto all’Impoverimento linguistico) ongoing
  • ongoing Member of the Scientific Board of CECIL-Scuola ongoing
  • ongoing Elected President of MA Degree Council of Filologia e Storia dell’Antichità, Università di Pisa.
  • ongoing Director for Teacher Training in Classics (cdc a13) at the University of Pisa

2024

  • Delegated by the Director for Public Engagement (“terza missione”) at the Department of Philology, Literature, Linguistics
  • COMMISSIONS OF TRUST

2024 – ongoing  Scientific Committee Folkloricum. Archive of Ancient Folklore

2022 – ongoing Scientific Committee Mythos. Rivista di storia delle religioni. 

2019 – ongoing Scientific Committee Lexis. Poetica, retorica e comunicazione nella tradizione classica

2017 – ongoing Scientific Committee Grecorromana: Revista chilena de estudios clásicos

2004 –  ongoing Scientific Advisory Board, Anthropoi. Studi e materiali di Antropologia del Mondo Antico (edizioni ETS, Pisa)

2004 – ongoing Scientific Advisory Board, Anthropoi (edizioni ETS, Pisa)

2007 – 2011 Editorial Board, Educare all’Antico (Dipartimento di Filologia Classica – Università di Pisa – Provincia di Pisa)

  • MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

2001 –  Member and Scientific Responsible, Laboratorio di Antropologia del Mondo Antico (Scientific Secretary)

2015 – Associated Member of Centre ANHIMA – EHESS Paris (Centre ANHIMA, EHESS)

2016 – Associated Member of Labex-Hastec – EHESS Paris (Laboratoire d’Excellence. Histoire et anthropologie des savoirs, des techniques et des croyances)

2020 – Member of REPRISE (Register of Expert Peer Reviewers for Italian Scientific Evaluation)

2017-2022  – Member of the Programme «Anthropologie et historiographie des polythéismes», Centre ANHIMA (coordinators: C. Carastro, EHESS; S. D’Intino, CNRS)

2023 –Member of the Programme «Cosmologies et polythéismes : approches comparées » (2024-2028) responsables : Cléo Carastro (EHESS) et Leopoldo Iribarren (EHESS)