Agnese Rosa AMADURI
Agnese Amaduri is a Researcher in Italian Literature; since November 2025 she has been Coordinator for Internationalization at the Department of Humanities. She is currently an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow – Experienced Researcher at the University of Stuttgart (Germany).
She earned a PhD in Modern Philology in 2008 and a second PhD in Cultural Heritage Studies in 2018. In March 2018 she obtained the National Scientific Qualification for Associate Professor in the disciplinary sector 10/F1 (Italian Literature).
She was a Research Fellow (2007–2011) and Contract Researcher (2013–2014) at the University of Catania.
In November 2024 she was awarded a Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung as an Experienced Researcher, carrying out a research semester at the Institut für Literaturwissenschaft of the University of Stuttgart. In the 2022–2023 academic year she was Visiting Professor at the same institute thanks to an Ermete Fellowship from the Italienzentrum. In the 2016–2017 academic year she was Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford for a semester within the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. In 2012 she served as Research Assistant in an international research project funded by Monash University (Melbourne, Australia).
She is currently a member of the research group for the PRIN PNRR Co.Ver.Less. project (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 Delegate for Internationalization of the Department of Humanities. From 2013 to 2015 she taught Italian as an L2/LS instructor at the Società Dante Alighieri – Catania Committee.
Her research focuses primarily on the Renaissance and on late Naturalism and early twentieth-century writing, with an incursion into contemporary literature due to her interest in Leonardo Sciascia. She has worked on the study of short-story writing, comic–burlesque and satirical poetry, epistolography, treatises, and lyric poetry in the sixteenth century (Anton Francesco Grazzini, Straparola, Giovan Guglielmo Bonincontro, Scipione di Castro, Vittoria Colonna, Isabella Morra, Gaspara Stampa). She has also investigated the connections between religious heterodoxy and literature in the sixteenth century, as well as libertinism in its political, religious, and moral dimensions.
She has devoted extensive work to the novels and letters of Federico De Roberto, focusing on reconstructing the conception, drafting, and publication of I Viceré through the analysis of various correspondences, but also addressing his other major novels and war stories. For the Verga Foundation she prepared the critical edition of the correspondence between De Roberto and the Treves publishing house. She has dealt with several thematic nodes in Sciascia’s production (inquisitions, heresies, women, faith). She has also studied the fiction of Annie Vivanti Chartres and is more broadly interested in women’s writing between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. More recently, she has turned her attention to children’s literature during the Fascist period.