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Francesco Marco Aresu is an Assistant Professor of Italian Studies and Graduate Chair at the Department of Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, with a focus on Italian literature and Classical Philology, alongside degrees from Stanford, Indiana University, and the Università degli Studi di Cagliari. His research emphasizes Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, manuscript studies, and textual criticism, with specialties in Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Aresu’s work bridges material culture and literary analysis, as exemplified by his 2023 monograph Manuscript Poetics.
- Education: Ph.D. Harvard (Romance Languages), M.A. Stanford and Indiana, B.A. Cagliari
His research interests include the intersection of materiality and textuality in medieval manuscripts, the history of the book, and Sardinian literary traditions. He has published extensively on Dante’s intertextuality, Petrarch’s sestinas, and Boccaccio’s Teseida, with a focus on manuscript discovery and philological rigor. Recent work involves collaborative projects on newly identified Petrarch manuscripts and Baroque theater.
Aresu serves as editor for the Petr Archive, associate editor for Heliotropia, and editor-in-chief of Bibliotheca Dantesca. His 2025 article on a new Petrarch manuscript demonstrates ongoing engagement with cutting-edge textual scholarship. His publications span Brill, Oxford U.P., and major academic journals in literary studies.
Before UPenn, he taught at Wesleyan University and maintains editorial roles across multiple platforms. His teaching and research reflect a commitment to interdisciplinary methods, integrating palaeography, digital humanities, and traditional philology.
