Francesca Bortoletti

Francesca Bortoletti is an Associate Professor at the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Enterprises at Università di Parma, Italy. She specializes in Performing Arts and Cultural Memory, with a focus on Renaissance festivals, theater history, and classical reception. Her research explores intersections between scholarship, performance-based research, and pedagogy, particularly in youth education and civic engagement through drama.

• Research Themes: Renaissance festivals as political/cultural tools, classical antiquity's influence on early modern performance, mythological narratives in theater, and digital mapping of historical events.
• Teaching: Leads courses on Theatre in History, Performing Arts and Cultural Memory, and Performance Atlases for both undergraduate and graduate students in Artistic Heritage and Media Communication programs.
• Publications: 2024 works on Dionysian pedagogy, Medici Florence's Orpheus performances, and Ferrara's sacred spectacles. Earlier research spans 2002-2021, covering topics from madrigals to royal entry rituals.

Her recent 2024 articles emphasize ephemeral Renaissance through interdisciplinary lenses, analyzing how festivals integrated ethics, aesthetics, and politics. She co-edited a double monographic issue of Skenè Journal (2024) with digital tools like FRIDA atlas (2018).