Chiara Zampieri

Chiara Zampieri is a Lecturer in Italian Literature at KU Leuven (2025–2026) and previously served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate there (Feb–Jun 2025). She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from KU Leuven (2023), an MA in French and Italian Literatures from UCLouvain (2018), and a BA in English and French from Ca' Foscari University of Venice (2016). Her research focuses on intersections of literature, cultural studies, and museum practices, with specialties in Etruscan antiquity’s modern reception, discourse analysis, and intermediality.

Education:

• PhD in Comparative Literature: Voix d'Etrurie: la représentation de l'antiquité étrusque dans la littérature européenne (1840–1940), KU Leuven (2019–2022)
• MA in French and Italian Literatures, UCLouvain (2016–2018)
• BA in English and French Literatures, Ca' Foscari University of Venice (2013–2016)

Her recent publications (2023–2025) explore themes such as museum narratives, authorial spaces, and mythological reinterpretation. She has contributed to journals like Italian Studies and Semen, and co-authored works on discourse theory and art criticism. Media engagements include analyses of literary adaptations and historical narratives.

Grants & Lab Affiliations: Involved with KU Leuven’s Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings, focusing on interdisciplinary projects combining literature, art, and cultural heritage.