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Dr. Mattia Zangari

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Name
Dr. Mattia Zangari
Status
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
E-Mail
mattia.zangari (at) hu-berlin.de

Sitz
Friedrichstraße 191-193 , Raum 4022
Telefon
(030) 2093 70577

Curriculum vitae

 

PERSONAL DETAILS

Family Name, First Name: Zangari, Mattia

Researcher unique identifiers: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8617-0099; https://unive.academia.edu/MattiaZangari

Date of birth: 29.09.1989

Nationality: Italian

Gender: Male

URL for web site: https://hu-berlin.academia.edu/MattiaZangari

My research interests are directed at female sanctity, from the Middle Ages to the modern period. I am trained in history and philology, and having studied under Lina Bolzoni, expert in the word-image relationship, I attribute the same documentary value to textual as to iconographic sources. This is why my methodology is interdisciplinary. As well as studying the biographies of female saints, for many years I have studied the relationship between female sanctity and mental disturbance, and I have carried out cutting-edge research (I was the first Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow to conduct research at the Vatican). The results of this research are gathered into a book, published by one of the most important and best-known Italian publishers (Laterza).

  • EDUCATION

2016    – PhD in ‘Discipline Filologiche e Linguistiche Moderne’ (70/70 con lode e dignità di stampa) Classe di Scienze Umane, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy ( cotutelle with the Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität München, Philosophische Fakultät für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften)

2013    – Master in ‘Filologia moderna’

Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università della Calabria, Italy (First class honours 1st)

2011    – BA in ‘Italian Studies’

Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy (First class honours 1st)

  • CURRENT POSITION

2025 – present Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Geschichtwissenschaften

  • PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2019 – 2022   

Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow (assegnista di ricerca) | Global Fellowship (G.A. 838675), Department of Humanities, Università Ca’ Foscari Venzia, Italy - Faculty of Theology, Pontificia Università Urbaniana

2018 – 2019

Assegnista di ricerca, Department SAGAS (Storia, Archeologia, Geografia, Arte e Spettacolo), Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

 – 2018

Postdoctoral Reseacher, Medici Archive Project, Florence, Italy

  • FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2025

  1. Fritz Thyessen Fellow, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Geschichtwissenschaften
  2. Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Frei Universität Berlin, Institut für Romanische Philologie, Italienzentrum (declined for incompatibility)

2019

MSC, Global Fellowship, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia | Pontificia Università Urbaniana,

Project’s title Mad for Him – Women, religion and Mental Illness between Middle Ages and Early Modern Age (G.A.838675, total score: 94,60)

2018/2019

Newberry Library Chicago, Visiting Scholar

2018

University of Toronto (Center for Renaissance and Reformation Studies), Eisenbichler Fellow

2015

International Society of Franciscan Studies (SISF) – Assisi, Schlarship

2014-2016

PhD Scholarship, Gerda Henkel Stiftung

  • TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  2015

Invited Lecturer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Inst. für Italienische Philologie

  • ORGANIZATION OF SCHOLARLY MEETINGS

10/11.11.2021

Organiser and speaker (Opening Lecture) of the International and Interdisciplinary Congress

Mad for Him: Female Sanctity and Mental Illness between Middle Ages and Modern Age, in

the frame of the MSCA, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy

30.07.2016

Co-organiser and speaker of the Seminar Bizzoche e beghine in Italia, Gargnano, Brescia

  • REVIEWING ACTIVITIES

2020 – present, Reviewer of Quaderni del m. ae. s – Journal of Maediae Aetatis

  • MEMBER OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY

2017 – Present, Medici Archive Project, New York/Florence  

  • LANGUAGE

Italian – native speaker; English – fluent; German – fluent; French – fluent; Latin – reading and translation

 

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