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Marina PAINO is a Full Professor of Contemporary Italian Literature at the Department of Humanities, University of Catania, where she has been serving as Department Director since 2017. She is a leading figure in the study of 20th-century Italian literary culture, with a strong institutional presence in national research and academic governance.
Her research focuses on 20th-century Italian poetry and fiction, with deep philological and intertextual analysis of authors such as Gozzano, Saba, Pasolini, Calvino, Sciascia, and Morante. She also explores cinematic adaptations of literary works and has contributed significantly to the integration of digital methods in literary studies, co-founding the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of Catania.
She has been actively involved in academic leadership, including membership in the Academic Senate of the University of Catania (2008–2015), the National Scientific Council of MOD (2005–2008), and the national commission for university qualifications in her field (2016–2018). In 2020, she was appointed by the Ministry of University and Research to contribute to the drafting of the 2021–2027 National Research Plan.
She has participated in around twenty CNR and PRIN research projects and serves on the scientific committees of several Tier A literary journals. She co-edits a publication series supporting young scholars with Pietro Gibellini and Raffaella Bertazzoli.
Marina PAINO has supervised over a dozen PhD students to completion and consistently contributes to doctoral teaching committees. She has guided numerous master’s theses on major Italian authors and literary themes.
She co-founded the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of Catania, reflecting her interdisciplinary approach that bridges traditional literary scholarship with computational and digital methodologies.
