Gabriele Giannini

Gabriele Giannini is a full Professor in the Department of French Literature at the Université de Montréal and directs the Centre d'études médiévales. He specializes in Romance philology, focusing on the material transmission of medieval texts, including French literature's circulation in Italy, Occitan/Oïl apocryphal/hagiographic literature, and texts from the Latin East. His research emphasizes textual materiality and cultural exchanges.

• Education: Masters from University of Bologna (1998), PhD from Sapienza University of Rome (2003)
• Postdoctoral work: École pratique des hautes études (Paris, 2006–2008), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (2011–2012)

Research interests include manuscript studies, textual criticism, and the interplay between medieval French and Occitan texts. His projects explore textual transmission networks, such as medieval manuscript production centers and French texts in the Papal Court in Rome. He has led major grants from the SSHRC and Fonds de recherche du Québec.

Key publications include studies on medieval textual variants, the Damascus manuscript fragments, and the materiality of medieval guides to the Holy Land. His work bridges philology with broader historical and cultural analysis.