Katia Barbaresco

Katia Barbaresco is a researcher at the Department of Humanities of Ca' Foscari University of Venice, specializing in archaic, Hellenistic, and imperial Greek epics. She earned her PhD in Greek Literature from Ca' Foscari, focusing on the death of Achilles in Quintus Smyrnaeus's Posthomerica, with research stints at the University of Reading (2017) and King's College London (2019–2020).

• Research Interests: Epic diction, representation of deities in epics, and the persis (destruction) of Troy.
• Projects: Co-editor of the volume Il grido di Andromaca. Voci di donne contro la guerra (2022), and active member of the Aletheia research group and the Classici Contro project.
• Academic Roles: Former president of the Ca' Foscari Doctoral Student Council (2020–2021), reviewer for the Classical Quarterly and Paradoxa series, and current member of the Steering Committee for the Ancient Studies degree program.
• Publications: Explores themes like oral vs. written composition in epics, gender transgressions in battle, and the depowering of Olympian gods in post-Homeric literature.
• Grants: Involved in funded projects such as ILIOUPERSIS 2022: Epic Archetypes and ILIOUPERSIS 2023: Inventing Peace, collaborating with Ca' Foscari University, Italian municipalities, and banking institutions.