Francesca Gambino

Francesca Gambino is associate professor of Romance Philology in the Department of Literary and Linguistic Studies [DiSLL, Dipartimento di studi linguistici e letterari] at the University of Padua.

She has carried out research in Boston at the University of Boston as visiting scholar (may 2018), Paris at the University La Sorbonne (Paris IV), at the École Nationale des Chartes and at the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes – CNRS (1998-2001, Post Doc scholarship and fellowship for study abroad), at the Centre d'Études de Civilisation Médiévale Supérieures, University of Poitiers (summer 1998), at the Kupferstichkabinett of Berlin (1996), at the University of Freiburg (1993), at Anglia Polytechnic, Cambridge (1992) and at the University of Nice (Erasmus, 1990-1991).

She has collaborated with various scholarly institutions, such as the "Opera del Vocabolario Italiano" at the Crusca Academy, Florence (contracts in 1997, 2000 and 2001), the Italian Encyclopedia Treccani in Rome (1998) and the University Consortium Icon - Italian Culture on the Net (2002).  She also contributed to the Dizionario etimologico della lingua italiana (Zanichelli, 2008 and 2011).

She has also coordinated groups of scholars on various research projects funded by the Italian CNR [National Research Council] and the University of Padua (2012-2014 on Franco-Italian literature: Repertorio Informatizzato Antica Letteratura Franco-Italiana, RIALFrI, www.rialfri.eu, work in progress; 2003-2004 on the Occitan salutz; 2002-2003 on medieval scientific texts; 2001-2002 on anonymity in the medieval lyric tradition). From 2010 to 2013 she participated in a strategic project at the University of Padua entitled "Medieval Veneto - Medieval Europe. Identity and Otherness."

Since 2009 she has been responsible for the Erasmus exchanges at the University of Padua for the undergraduate program in General Arts (Lettere [Humanities]), and for Masters' courses in Modern Philology, Classical Philology, Linguistics; she herself started up an Erasmus exchange with the University of Paris La Sorbonne - Paris IV. Since 2013 she is a member of the Board of Instruction for the PhD course in Linguistics, Philology and Literature and of the Scholarly Commission of the University of Padua. Since 2015 she is Co-director of the Internationalization Commission of the Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari [Department of Literature and Linguistics].

Her publications range from early Italian literature in Tuscany and the Veneto to French and Occitan literature. She has edited critical editions with translation and commentary of several texts: Thomas's Tristan (2014), Chrétien de Troyes's Le Chevalier au Lion (2011), the Gospels in Old Venetian (Padua, 2007), songs by anonymous Occitan troubadours and trobairitz (Alexandria, 2004), the fourteenth-century poem by Jacopo Gradenigo (Bologna, 1999), the Occitan Vida of St. Flora (2008), and the rhymes of Noffo Bonaguide (1996). She has also worked in material philology (studies on anonymity in Romance manuscript tradition), linguistics (she edited numerous entries for the "Tesoro della lingua delle Origini" and has worked on the Etymological Dictionary of the Italian Language, DELI) and literature, addressing in particular the question of the definition of the biblical epic genre, contributing to the definition of the salut genre and coordinating the publication of the entire corpus of Salutz Provençal (Rome, 2009).

She has lectured at various Italian and international institutions, including the University of Vienna, the University of Béziers, the University of Cambridge, the University of Messina, the University of Bologna, the University of Salerno, the Franceschini Foundation in Florence, the Concordi' Academy at Rovigo.

She is co-director of the online journal dedicated to Franco-Italian literature, Francigena (http://www.francigena-unipd.com/index.php/francigena).

She was awarded the Paolo Sambin prize for her PhD dissertation on Jacopo Gradenigo in 1997 and the Sigillo Monsilicis prize in 2007 for her publication of the Gospels in Old Venetian.

She is a member of the Italian Society of Romance Philology (SIFR) and of the Medieval Academy of America (MAA).

  She has worked for fifteen years as a journalist with various newspapers (Gazzettino, Antenna Veneto Tre, the news agency ANSA). She has written books for children and young people (see the sites www.ladivinaavventura.it and www.danteforlife.it) plays and screenplays.

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