Lavinia BENEDETTI
Lavinia Benedetti is Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the University of
Catania. She received her PhD from Tsinghua University in Beijing. Her research has primarily
focused on premodern Chinese literature, with particular attention to crime narratives, eroticism,
gender constructions, and marginal narrative forms.
She has served as Visiting Professor and Researcher at leading Chinese institutions, including
Beijing Language and Culture University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and has coordinated
nationally and internationally funded research projects. Since 2024 she has been a member of
the Grupo de Investigación Sinología Española Complutense: Lengua, Cultura y
Sociedad (Madrid).
Her work on contemporary literature develops from a longstanding investigation into the
persistence and transformation of classical stylistic patterns within modern and contemporary
writing. In this perspective, she has examined the works of the Beijing author Feng Tang and the
poet Zhai Yongming, analyzing how classical echoes and aesthetic paradigms are reactivated as
critical practices of subject formation and cultural intervention in the present. She is the author of numerous scholarly articles and books published in Italian, English, and Chinese.