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Laura Lupo is a Research Fellow (SSD L-FIL-LET/10) at the Department of Humanities, University of Catania, working on XML/TEI-based annotated digital editions of 19th-century Italian literature within the EU-funded Extended Partnership Changes – Spoke 3 project (PE0000020, CUP E63C22001960006). Concurrently, she has held a permanent high school teaching position in literary subjects and Latin (Competition Class A011) since 2022, following her success in the national Ordinary Competition for teaching staff.
- Education: PhD in Interpretation Sciences (2023, University of Catania, cum laude), Master's in ITALS (2018, Ca' Foscari), Specialization in Special Education (2022, Kore University of Enna), and advanced degrees in Modern Philology (2016, LM-14) and Modern Literature (2015, University of Catania).
Her research focuses on Verismo, particularly Giovanni Verga's short stories, with a specialization in digital philology, gender studies, and Sicilian cultural context. She has contributed to projects like the TEI-encoded Mastro-don Gesualdo edition and collaborated with the Verga Foundation (2017-2019) on archival cataloging and 19th-century text digitization.
Scientific contributions include publications in journals like Annali della Fondazione Verga (Class A) and proceedings for international conferences such as the MOD Society's Literature & Anthropology (2019) and ADI's Literature & Power (2021). She has presented at venues including the University of Debrecen's North/South Italy literary dynamics seminar (2020) and organized events like the National ADI Congress (2021) and Verga-themed Literacy Day (2022).
Her methodological approach bridges formal stylistic analysis with contemporary sociological and gender perspectives, examining brief narrative forms in dialogue with European literary traditions. Current work includes digital editions of Verga's texts and studies on post-unification Italian women's roles in media and literature.
