Gioacchino STRANO
Academic positions
December 30, 2016 – today Associate Professor at the Department of Humanities, University of Calabria; from November 1, 2023, at the Department of Humanities,
University of Catania.
Scientific-disciplinary sector 2024: HELL-01/C Byzantine civilization
Scientific-disciplinary group 2024: 10/HELL-01 GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
01.11.2006 - 30.12.2016
Permanent researcher in the scientific-disciplinary sector L-FILLET/07 “Byzantine civilization”, at the University of Calabria,
Department of History, with permanent appointment: 1 November 2006 (until 30 December 2016).
July 16, 1999 – July 15, 2003
Research fellow at the University of Catania for the scientific disciplinary sector L06D “Byzantine civilization”, with a research
program entitled: “The Role of Intellectuals in the Civil and Ecclesiastical Institutions of Byzantium between the 9th and 10th
Centuries”, for the four-year period between 16.07.1999 and 15.07.2003.
Training
01.10.2001
Attendance at a course in Greek paleography organized by Prof. A. Tselikas, Idrima Ethniki Trapeza of Athens, held at the Ινστιτούτο
Βιβλίου kai αναγνώσης by Kotsani (Macedonia, Greece), October 2001.
2 4.03.2000
PhD in Byzantine Philology and Literature I obtained the title of Doctor of Research in “Byzantine Philology and
Literature” at the University of Turin, (duration of three years), on 24.03.2000, presenting a final dissertation entitled: Leo VI between
ideology and history: the oration in prophetam Heliam (BHG 577).
June 23, 1994
Bachelor's Degree in Classical Literature Thesis in Byzantine Philology, with a grade of 110/110 cum laude, at
the University of Catania
My research focuses on the connections between rhetoric and politics in Byzantine culture. I have studied Byzantine hagiography, homiletics, poetry, and epistolography, publishing, among other works, a critical edition of the Correspondence of Leo Choirosphaktes (9th–10th century) (Catania 2008), a critical edition of the Apologetic Carme of Nicholas Muzalo (11th–12th century) (Acireale-Rome 2012), and the poem of Nicholas, bishop of Corcyra, an important source on the role of Corfu in relations between the Epirus area and Southern Italy (Thessalonica 2020). A critical edition of the works of Constantine of Rhodes (in collaboration with Claudio De Stefani) was published in October 2023 in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana Graeca et Latina. My other fields of investigation are the relationships between the center and the periphery in the Byzantine Empire, the relations between Byzantium and Armenia, and the social and cultural history of Byzantine and post-Byzantine southern Italy.