Alessia Prontera

Alessia Prontera is a Lecturer at the Department of Humanities, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. She holds a PhD in Latin Language and Literature from Ca' Foscari University, with a dissertation on Claudius Claudianus' epigrams. Her research focuses on Late Latin poetry, Classical Philology, Digital Humanities, and Ecocriticism. She has contributed to critical editions of late antique texts and co-edited digital archives like 'Musisque Deoque' and 'Carmina Latina Epigraphica'. Prontera's work spans textual criticism, intertextuality, and the reception of classical motifs in the Middle Ages.

Her recent publications include studies on Claudian's epigrams, Ausonius' style, and Ennodius' Carmina. She is currently engaged in the PRIN-PNRR project 'Men in Nature' at the University of L'Aquila, applying ecocritical approaches to Late Antique Latin texts. Prontera has participated in conferences at Rome Tor Vergata, Siena, and Pavia, and taught seminars at Ca' Foscari University and the University of Naples Federico II.