Francesca Castellano

Francesca Castellano is an Associate Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Florence's Department of Literature and Philosophy. Her academic journey includes a PhD from the International Doctoral School in Italian Studies (Florence-Bonn-Paris Sorbonne) and roles as a post-doctoral fellow (2011) and fixed-term researcher (2012-2021) at the same institution. She currently leads the Florentine unit for the PRIN 2022 project on Eugenio Montale's correspondence and serves on multiple university committees, including the Internationalization Commission and Humanities Library Council.

Her research spans:

• Renaissance/17th-century studies: Benvenuto Cellini's autobiographies, Lorenzo Magalotti's prose/verse
• 19th/20th-century literature: Carlo Dossi, Giovanni Faldella, Eugenio Montale, Pier Paolo Pasolini
• Thematic focus: Colonial literature, poetic analysis, philology, interview genres

She has authored critical editions (e.g., Montale's interviews, Faldella's Ammaestramenti), monographs like Il sangue, l’inchiostro. Storia di Carlo Dossi (2016), and bibliographic tools such as the Montale criticism database. Her publications reflect sustained engagement with textual scholarship and modernist reinterpretations.

Honors include:

• National Scientific Qualification for Full Professor (Italian Literature and Contemporary Italian Literature, 2021)
• Competitive research grant winner (University of Florence, 2017)

She teaches Italian Literature, Theatrical Literature, and Poetry/Narrative forms, while mentoring graduate students in Modern Philology. As an editor, she contributes to journals (Quaderni montaliani, Studi rinascimentali) and book series, advancing scholarly dialogue in Italian literary studies.