Federica Zoppi

Federica Zoppi serves as a Temporary Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona, specializing in Spanish literature (academic sector SPAN-01/A). Her research focuses on Spanish literature of the Siglo de Oro, with particular expertise in Cervantes studies, chivalric novels, and comic motifs in literature.

Professor Zoppi's research interests span multiple interconnected areas including literary relations between Italy and Spain, translation studies of chivalric novels and picaresque literature, and Digital Humanities applications in literary scholarship. Her work bridges traditional philological approaches with innovative digital methodologies.

Among her notable achievements, Professor Zoppi received the VI Premio Internacional «Academia del Hispanismo» for her doctoral thesis on laughter and irony in Don Quixote. She also secured a prestigious Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship under Horizon 2020 for her research on comic motifs in Spanish Golden Age romances of chivalry.

• VI Premio Internacional «Academia del Hispanismo» de Tesis Doctoral (2015)
• Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship (Horizon 2020)
• National coordinator of PRIN 2022 "spaNice" research project
• Responsible for University of Verona research unit for PRIN PNRR project

Professor Zoppi teaches multiple courses across undergraduate and graduate programs, including Spanish Literature 2 and 3, Spanish Literature and Culture courses, and specialized teaching labs in Spanish literature and culture. She is actively involved in academic governance, serving on the Faculty Board of PhD in Foreign Literatures and Languages and various departmental committees.

Her current research projects demonstrate significant scholarly impact, with the PRIN 2022 "spaNice" project examining Spanish cultural models in early modern Venice, and the PRIN PNRR project developing a digital catalogue of Spanish epic chivalric poems from the 16th and 17th centuries.