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Marina PAINO is a Full Professor of Contemporary Italian Literature at the Department of Humanities, University of Catania, where she also serves as Department Director. She is actively engaged in research, teaching, and academic leadership, with a focus on 20th-century Italian poetry and fiction. Her methodological rigor emphasizes textual analysis, philology, and intertextuality, and she has significantly contributed to the digital humanities through her co-founding role in the Center for Digital Humanities at her institution.
Her research interests include 20th-century Italian literature, philological studies of major authors such as Calvino, Pasolini, Saba, and Morante, intertextual analysis, cinematic adaptations of literature, and digital processing of poetic texts. She has conducted extensive studies on authors like Gozzano, Sbarbaro, Rebora, Lampedusa, Vittorini, Luzi, Quasimodo, Sereni, Manganelli, Sciascia, and Bufalino. Her early work in the 1990s, guided by Giuseppe Savoca, focused on lexicography and semantics, with research visits to the University of Chicago and the University of Washington, integrating digital tools into literary scholarship.
Although the text references numerous publications, specific article titles are not listed, preventing detailed classification. However, her scholarly output consistently engages with literary modernity, textual criticism, and interdisciplinary approaches combining literature with digital methods and film studies.
Marina PAINO has supervised over a dozen doctoral students to completion and regularly participates in PhD teaching committees. She has served on the scientific committees of prestigious Tier A literary journals recognized by ANVUR. She co-edits a publication series with Pietro Gibellini and Raffaella Bertazzoli to support young scholars. She has been involved in approximately twenty national research projects (CNR and PRIN) on 19th- and 20th-century literature.
She has held significant administrative and national roles, including membership in the National Scientific Council of MOD (2005–2008), the National Board of Directors of MOD (2008–2014), and representation for Area 10 (Ancient, Philological-Literary, and Artistic Sciences) in the Academic Senate of the University of Catania (2008–2015). From 2016 to 2018, she served on the national commission for scientific qualifications in Contemporary Italian Literature. Since 2017, as Department Director, she coordinates projects funded by PON AIM and POT. In 2020, she was appointed by the Ministry of University and Research to the expert pool for drafting the 2021–2027 National Research Plan in historical, literary, and artistic disciplines.
She co-founded the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of Catania, reflecting her commitment to innovative, technology-enhanced literary research. She continues to supervise thesis students across a wide range of topics in modern Italian literature, indicating an active and influential research group.
