Maria Fallica

Maria Fallica is a Research Fellow and Postdoctoral Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at Florida State University (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) and Sapienza University of Rome. She holds two doctoral degrees from Sapienza University: a 2017 Ph.D. in philology and history of the ancient world, and a 2020 Ph.D. in history of Christianity. Her research focuses on the intersection of reception studies, patristics, and early modern religious history.

Her current project, Folly and the Feminine in the Renaissance (FOLIE), examines Erasmus’ Praise of Folly in French and Italian Renaissance contexts. Key research areas include Reformation polemics, early Christian theologians like Origen, and the transmission of patristic thought into Protestant and Catholic traditions.

Notable publications include monographs on The Protestant Origen (2022) and Progresso e tradizione in John Wesley (2022), as well as articles in Erasmus Studies, Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni, and Open Theology. Her work bridges textual analysis with cultural history, particularly exploring how medieval and patristic ideas shaped early modern religious thought.

Scientific recognition includes the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship. Her interdisciplinary approach integrates philological rigor with gender studies and art history, as seen in her analysis of Marian iconography and feminine discourse in Renaissance treatises.