Eliana Giovanna Elsa CREAZZO
Eliana Creazzo is Associate Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Catania - SC 10 / E1 Middle Latin and Roman Philologies and Literatures. She has mainly dealt with medieval French literature. In a comparative perspective - an enlarged, Eurasian comparativism - she investigated the forms of the narrative frame, with particular reference to Barlaam and Josaphat, and the paths of the literary imagination linked to Sicily of the 11th-13th centuries, with insights on the texts related to the Legend of Arthur nell'Etna. She then directed his studies towards late Arthurian production - see the Italian analysis and translation work of Le Chevalier du Papegau -, paying attention to aspects related to intertextuality, the chronotopic dimension and reception. She has also initiated research on the Roman d’Alexandre, the system of emotions in Floriant et Florete, and the role of the horse in myth and literature. Her primary research currently focuses on medieval female mysticism, especially in Italy, with ongoing work editing the Italian translations of Angela da Foligno's Liber, and with comparative studies aimed at exploring, within the context of contemporary readability, women's visionary gaze, through words and images. This research has opened methodological and hermeneutical insights in the direction of literary ecology.
Eliana Creazzo's CV
University of Catania – Department of Humanities
Academic Qualifications Degree in Modern Literature from the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Catania. Her thesis in Romance Philology, entitled "Barlaam and Josaphat" in Medieval French. Textual Journey and Narrative Structures, supervised by Professor Antonio Pioletti, was defended on June 21, 1999, and received a final grade of 110/110, cum laude, and the title of "Dignified Publication."
Qualification as "Expert" in Romance Philology, by resolution of the Teaching Area Council of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Catania dated September 9, 2002.
Doctoral Research: Awarded the title of Doctor of Philology in Modern Philology, 15th cycle, at the University of Catania (supervised by Prof. Antonio Pioletti) with a thesis entitled "En Sesile est un mons mout grans". Medieval Sicily between history and literary imagination (11th-13th centuries), defended on March 26, 2004.
Research Grant: Beginning June 1, 2005, a research grant at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, for the specialization L-FIL-LET/09 - Romance Philology and Linguistics, for a period of two years for the research project: "For a new edition of «Le Chevalier du papegau»".
Research Grant: A one-year research grant will begin on July 1, 2008, at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Catania, for the specialization L-FIL-LET/09 - Romance Philology and Linguistics, for the research project: "Forms of the Arthurian Romance of the 14th and 15th Centuries. Texts, Contexts, and Intertextuality."
Fixed-term researcher (type A) for the specialization L-FIL-LET/09 - Romance Philology and Linguistics, for the three-year period 2011-2014 with an extension for the two-year period 2015-2016 at the Special Teaching Structure of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Catania, located in Ragusa.
Fixed-term researcher (type B) for the specialization L-FIL-LET/09 - Romance Philology and Linguistics. L-FIL-LET/09 - Romance Philology and Linguistics, for the three-year period 2016-2019 at the Special Teaching Structure of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Catania, located in Ragusa.
Associate Professor of Romance Philology since December 2019, at the Department of Humanities of the University of Catania.
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Scholarships for Study Abroad CNR scholarship for a study visit to Paris (May 1-25, 2006), at the Centre d’Etudes du Moyen Age (EA 173) of the Sorbonne University (Paris III), as part of the Short-term Mobility Program 2006, for the research project entitled Repertory of Epic-Chivalric Themes and Motifs: the “Chansons de Geste” of the Rebel Vassals Cycle.
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Roles in scientific journals and editorial series Editorial board of the Tier A journal "Le Forme e la Storia".
Scientific committee of the series "Medioevo Romanzo e Orientale", edited by A. Pioletti.
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Institutional roles: Head of the Literature course for the Lincei refresher courses for schools, Catania-Messina campus, since 2020-21
Member of the board of the Italian Society of Romance Philology - school section, since November 2024
Deputy for Public Engagement of the Department of Humanities, since 2025
Research Projects
Participation in Funded Research Groups
PRIN 2001: The Journey through Romance and Oriental Literatures, Scientific Coordinator Antonio Pioletti.
PRIN 2005: Repertoire of Epic-Chivalric Themes and Motifs between East and West, Scientific Coordinator Antonio Pioletti. University Research Projects
(PRA) 2001-2002: Medieval and Modern Short Fiction between East and West, Research Director Antonio Pioletti.
FIR 2014, University of Catania: Romance and Oriental Middle Ages: Geocriticism and Interpretation of Alexander's Novels, Professor Gaetano Lalomia.
Prometeo 2018 linea 3, University of Catania, Professor Mirella Cassarino, Middle Ages and Modernity: Phenomenology of Representations of Otherness between East and West
Individual Projects
University Project for Researchers, academic year 2012-2013: Study and editing of the Italian translations of Angela da Foligno's Liber.
Young Researchers Project – "widespread" research, Year 1999: Sicily in the literary imagery of 12th- and 13th-century French texts, with a presentation dated February 12, 2002.
FFabr-Miur 2017
PROMETEO 2018 line 1, University of Catania, The relationship between man and horse in history, myth, and literature
PROMETEO 2019 line 1, University of Catania, Barlaam and Josaphat in Iberian air
PIACERI 2020-2022, P.I. Gaetano Lalomia, Romance and Oriental Middle Ages. Manifestations, forms, and lexicon of eros from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age.
PIACERI 2024, P.I. Mirella Cassarino, Narrating the environment between East and West.