FACULTY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Section of Italian Language and Culture, Curriculum Committee: chairperson

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

• Embassy of Italy in The Hague: member of the scientific advisory committee
• University of Palermo, PhD programme in Humanities: member of the Doctoral board

LEARNED SOCIETIES 

• Fondazione Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, Polizzi Generosa: member of the advisory board
• International Conferences on Jewish Italian Literature (ICOJIL): member of the advisory board 
• Società Dantesca Italiana, Florence: associate
• University College Cork, Centre for Dante Studies in Ireland (CDSI): associate member
• University of Barcelona, Seminario Internazionale di Studi Danteschi (SISD): member
• Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (OSL): member
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for Reception Studies (CERES): member
• University of Palermo, research project Ut scriptura somnium: invited member

EDITORIAL DUTIES

• Literary Reception & Art Reception: editor-in-chief 
• i quaderni di poesia: editor
• Archivio Silvana Grasso: co-editor
• Harpocrates: member of the advisory board
• Testo a fronte: member of the advisory board
• Poeti e Poesia: member of the advisory board
• Letteratura e Pensiero: member of the advisory board
• Metaphorica. Semestrale di Poesia: member of the advisory board
• Molesto. Journal of Literary Studies: member of the advisory board
• Lettera Zero: member of the advisory board
• L’Indice dei Libri del Mese: reviewer

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS

• European Research Council (ERC): reviewer of highly competitive research proposals (2020)
  South Africa’s National Research Foundation (NRF): rating-reviewer (2020)
• Comitato Nazionale per le celebrazioni del terzo centenario della nascita di Giuseppe Baretti: invited scientific charter member (2019-2021)
• Tilburg University, School of Catholic Theology: visiting professor of Dante Studies (2018-2020)
• Werkgroep Italië Studies: member of the board of directors (2016-2021)
• Study Group Lectura Dantis Europaea, Amsterdam, Berlin, Frankfurt: scientific supervisor (2016-2018)
• University of Wollongong (Australia): external examiner PhD candidate (2014)
• Università degli studi di Foggia: visiting researcher (2011)
• Leiden University - Hovo: visiting professor of Dante Studies (2009-2023)
• Osservatorio Permanente sugli Studi Pavesiani nel mondo (CE.PA.M.): representative (2004-2022)