معرفی
Uberto Motta serves as Full Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Fribourg's Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences within the Department of Italian. He previously held leadership roles as Department President of Languages and Literatures and Vice-Dean of the Faculty (2018-2021). His academic appointments span postdoctoral fellowships at the Universities of Lausanne (1996), Leuven (1997), and Harvard (2000-2001); a professorship at the Catholic University of Milan (2003-2011); and visiting positions across Russia, Germany, Hungary, and Switzerland.
Educational background:
- PhD (1996)
His core research focuses on:
- Italian Renaissance Literature
- Modern and Contemporary Italian Poetry
- Theory of Literature and Literary Criticism
This work examines the evolution of Italian literary expression through historical and theoretical frameworks, with particular emphasis on Renaissance texts and 20th/21st century poetic innovations. His scholarship bridges philological analysis with critical theory across multiple historical periods.
He co-directs the academic series "Biblioteca del Rinascimento e del Barocco" and "Biblioteca di studi e testi italiani", and serves on editorial boards including "Testo a fronte", "Rivista di Letteratura Italiana", and "Stilistica e metrica italiana".
