
Full Professor
SLAV-01/A Slavistica
ciccarini@lettere.uniroma2.it
Other professional positions
Member of the PhD Programme in “Comparative Studies: Languages, Literatures, and Arts”, Tor Vergata University of Rome
Positions held
1980 Master’s degree in Slavic Studies (Polish Language and Literature)
1990 PhD in Slavic Studies (Polish Language and Literature)
1991 Assistant professor in Slavic Studies (Polish Language and Literature)
2000 Associate Professor in Slavic Studies (Polish Language and Literature)
2010 Full Professor in Slavic Studies (Polish Language and Literature)
Education
1980 Master’s Degree in Slavic Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, magna cum laude
1990 PhD in Slavic Studies, University of Rome
Teaching Positions
Holder of the Chair of Polish Language and Literature
Awards
Decoration of Honor Meritorious for Polish Culture (Zasłużony dla kultury polskiej) awarded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland, 2012
Fields of research
Text criticism and Polish memoir writing of the sixteenth century
Seventeenth-century Russian-Polish comparative studies
Seventeenth-century Polish religious and anti-Turkish literature
Literary canon and late Baroque and Enlightenment Polish literature
Polish Romanticism (Philosophy of action and messianism)
Polish theater and contemporary poetry
Poetry translation
Editorial boards
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Class A journal “Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny”
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Class A journal “pl.it / rassegna italiana di argomenti polacchi”
Member of the Scientific Committee of the journal “Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale”
Member of the Scientific Committee of the journal “Fabrica Litterarum polono-italica”
Member of the Scientific Committee of the editorial series “Italipolis” for DiG Warszawa
Member of the Scientific Committee of the editorial series “Polonica” for Aracne Editore
Member of the Scientific Committee of the editorial series “SagUni Lingue e Letterature” for Giulio Perrone Editore
Peer Reviewer for the following journals
Peer reviewer for the Class A journals and scientific journals in polonistics and slavistics
Research training and grants
Research Unit Leader of the 2015 P.R.I.N. “(De)construction of the myth in contemporary women’s literature in Russia and Poland. A comparative study” (Call 2015 – Macrosector SH – Scientific coordinator Prof. Gloria Politi, University of Salento)
Member of the Research Group MeTE (European Mediators and Translators), Tor Vergata University of Rome
Selected international colloquia and papers
Gli scritti sul teatro di B. Leśmian e G. d’Annunzio, International Conference Regioni e città italiane, regioni e città europee: storia, cultura, letteratura, curiosità linguistiche, University of Warsaw, June 1-4, 2022
“Orfeusz. Sztuka w trzech aktach” di Anna Świrszczyńska: per una rilettura del mito, International Conference La riscrittura al femminile del mito nel panorama letterario slavo dal Novecento ai giorni nostri, University of Salento, Lecce, May 16-17, 2019
Il mito di Orfeo nel Secondo dopoguerra tra Italia e Polonia, International Conference Dal monologo al polilogo: l’Italia nel mondo. Lingue, letterature e culture in contatto, University of Warsaw, April 6-8, 2017
Akcja teatralna i utopia przeobrażenia: G. d‘Annunzio i B. Leśmian, International Conference Inna komparatystyka. Od dokumentu do wyobraźni, University of Warsaw, June 8, 2015
La prosa poetica: il caso di Ewa Lipska (with A. Amenta), International Conference Brevitas. Letture e scritture a confronto, Tor Vergata University of Rome, February 25-26, 2015
“L’Italia per la ricostituzione della Polonia”: un referendum del 1915, International Conference Uscir di sé medesimo (Tommaseo): Identità italiana e contatti italo- polacchi dal Risorgimento alla Grande guerra, University of Warsaw, May 30-31, 2014
Angiolo Danti e la Polonia, International Conference Maestri della polonistica italiana, Polish Academy of Sciences in Rome, October 17-18, 2013
Angelo Maria Ripellino polonista (con G. Tomassucci), International Conference Maestri della polonistica italiana, Polish Academy of Sciences in Rome, October 17-18, 2013
Identità e cultura letteraria tra Italia e Polonia: Giuseppe Mazzini e Adam Mickiewicz, International Conference L’Italia verso l’unità. Letterati, eroi, patrioti, Roma Tre University, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Sapienza – University of Rome, february 9-11, 2011
Il tempo della speranza in Świadectwo poezji di Czesław Miłosz, International Conference Il mondo familiare di Czesław Miłosz, Sapienza – University of Rome, december 1-3, 2011