Agnese Rosa AMADURI

Agnese Amaduri is Lecturer in Italian Literature; since November 2025, she has been the Internationalisation Coordinator for the Department of Humanities. She is currently an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow – Experienced Researcher at the University of Stuttgart (DE).

She obtained a PhD in Modern Philology in 2008 and a second PhD in Cultural Heritage Studies in 2018. In March 2018, she was awarded the National Academic Qualification for the role of Associate Professor in competition sector 10/F1 (Italian Literature).

She was a research fellow (2007–2011) and a contract researcher (2013–2014) at the University of Catania.

In November 2024, she was awarded a Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, as an Experienced Researcher, to undertake a semester of research at the Institut für Literaturwissenschaft at the University of Stuttgart. In the academic year 2022–2023, she was a visiting professor at the same institute thanks to the Ermete Fellowship awarded by the Italienzentrum. In the academic year 2016–2017, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford for one semester in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. In 2012, she was a Research Assistant on an international research project funded by Monash University in Melbourne.

She is currently a member of the Stuttgart Research Centre for Text Studies (SRCTS) and the PRIN PNRR Co.Ver.Less. research group (University of Catania and CNR). She has also taken part in several research projects at the University of Catania. From 2022 to 2025, she served as Internationalisation delegate for DISUM. From 2013 to 2015, she held the position of teacher of Italian as a Second Language (L2) and Language Studies (LS) at the Dante Alighieri Society – Catania Committee.

Her research focuses on the Renaissance and the late naturalist and early twentieth-century periods, with a foray into the contemporary era due to her interest in Leonardo Sciascia. She has devoted herself to the study of short stories, comic-burlesque and satirical poetry, epistolary writing, treatises and lyric poetry of the sixteenth century (Anton Francesco Grazzini, Giovan Guglielmo Bonincontro, Scipione di Castro, Vittoria Colonna, Isabella Morra, Gaspara Stampa). She focused on the novels and correspondence of Federico De Roberto, concentrating on reconstructing the period of conception, drafting and publication of "I Viceré" through the analysis of various correspondence, whilst also examining his other major novels and war stories. On behalf of the Verga Foundation, she edited the critical edition of the correspondence between De Roberto and the Treves publishing house. She has examined certain thematic strands in Sciascia’s work (inquisitions, heresy, women, faith).