Manuela Giordano

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Curriculum scientifico e didattico

Present Position:
Associate Professor of Greek Literature, Dipartimento di Filologia e Critica delle Letterature Antiche e Moderne, University of Siena

   Fellowships and visiting periods:
 2015 August-September, Visiting Scholar to the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge (UK)
 2010 Professeur invité, Centre Gernet, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (France)
 2006 and 2007 Visiting Scholar to the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge (UK)
 2002 Visiting Scholar to the Department of Classics, Chicago University, Chicago, IL (USA)

Research interests:
Tragedy and fifth century Athens, the neuropsychology of orality and literacy,  Homer, ancient Mediterranean networks.

   Education:
1999 – 2000     Lady Davis Fellowship (Post-Doctorate)
    The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
    Included research on the subjects of magic, cultural and historical contacts between Greece and Near Eastern civilizations, Attic tragedy and fifth century Athenian history.
1997 – 1999     Post-Doctorate
    Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli, Department of Studies of the Ancient Mediterranean, Italy
Included research on the literary and political role of curses (arai), oaths and blessings in ancient Greece, and the ideology and practice of revenge in ancient Greek culture.
1993 – 1996     PhD in Greek Philology and Literature
    University of Urbino, Italy
Included research undertaken at three different periods in Oxford, working with Prof. Robert Parker and a period of study in Berlin at the Humboldt University. PhD Thesis: “La supplica. Rituale, istituzione sociale e tema epico” under the guidance of Prof. G. Cerri.
1995    Grant from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the DAAD
German language training and conduct research in Berlin on ancient Greek lyric poetry.
1986 – 1991 Master’s Degree in Classics
La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
Score of 110/110 with distinction. Final thesis: “Il destino letterario delle arai nella letteratura greca” under the guidance of Prof. L. E. Rossi.
1989    Erasmus undergraduate scholarship, study at the Sorbonne and at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris with Prof. M. Detienne.

Attività di insegnamento

University of Siena, Italy Associate Professor of Greek Literature Dipartimento di filologia e critica  MA and BA courses

University of Calabria, Cosenza, Italy    15th March 2019 – present



2008 – 2019 Lecturer in Greek Literature Department of Philology

The American University of Rome, Italy    2007 – 2009 Adjunct Professor of Mythology

University of Calabria, Cosenza, Italy    2003 – 2007 Adjunct Professor for the programme ‘Rientro dei cervelli’ Department of Philology MA and BA courses in Greek literature and Greek culture.

University of Chicago (IL), USA                             2002 Visiting scholar Co-participation at MA seminars on Hesiod’s Theogony (with Christopher Faraone and Bruce Lincoln)

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel     1999 – 2002 Visiting Lecturer (courses taught in English and Hebrew) Departments of: History, Comparative Religion, and Classics     
MA seminars: “Anthropology and Religion in Ancient Greece” and “Efficacious Words: Curses, Blessings and Oaths in Ancient Greece”
Teacher in intra-departmental MA seminar “Memory, Tradition and Authority” and BA courses “Anthropology and Religion in Ancient Greece,” “Rule and Society in Athens.”

St. Mary’s College, South Bend IN, USA    1998 

Lecturer      

Instructing Course: “Classical Mythology”, for overseas study program in Rome, Italy

Lingue

Italian (Mother Tongue)
English (Fluent)
French (Fluent)
Modern Hebrew (Fluent)
Spanish (Very good)
German (Good, written and read)
Modern Greek (Basic)    
Ancient Greek
Latin
Biblical Hebrew
Hittite
Accadian

Pubblicazioni

Monographs and Edited Volumes

1.    Submerged Literature. Comparative and Anthropological perspectives, Ed. with A. Ercolani, Berlin and Boston 2016
2.    Submerged Literature in Ancient Greek Culture. An Introduction, Ed. with G. Colesanti, Berlin and Boston 2014
3.    Iliade I. La peste – l’ira (Introduzione e commento), Rome 2010
4.    La supplica. Rituale, istituzione sociale e tema epico in Omero, Naples 1999
5.    La parola efficace. Maledizioni, giuramenti e benedizioni nella Grecia arcaica Pisa-Rome, 1999

Articoli

• “Aeschylus’ Persians. Empathing with the Enemy or Orientalizing Them?” in J. Cahana – K. MacKendrick (eds.), We and They. Decolonizing Greco-Roman Antiquities, 2019 isbn 978-87-7184-443-6, pp. 11-26
• “Athenian Power: Seven against Thebes and the Democracy-in-arms”, Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, 5, 2019, pp.177-190
• “Animals, Governance and Warfare in the Iliad and Aeschylus’ Persians”, in G. M. Chesi, F. Spiegel (eds.), Classical Literature and Posthumanism, Bloomsbury: New York 2019, pp.111-127
• “Thourios Xerxes e la critica militante di Eschilo”, in M. Giordano, M. Napolitano (a cura di), La città, la parola, la scena: nuove ricerche su Eschilo, Quaderni di Seminari Romani VIII, Roma 2019, pp. 147-158
• “Odori divini e fumo di grigliata tra la Grecia e Tiergarten”, in A lume di naso. Olfatto, profumi, aromi tra mondo antico e contemporaneo, V. Bochicchio, M. Mazzeo, G. Squillace (a cura di) 2019 pp.15-32
• “ ‘Magic’ in Rome: Towards a New Taxonomy”, I Quaderni del Ramo d’Oro online, vol. 10, 2018, pp. 27-41
• “Prefazione” a: L. Pucci, 2017. Fuori da Atene. Miti e tradizioni su Oreste in Grecia antica. pp. 11-13
• “Introduction” in A. Ercolani, M. Giordano (eds), Submerged Literature. Comparative and Anthropological perspectives, Ed. with A. Ercolani, Berlin and Boston 2016, 1-8
• “The emergence of Athens” in A. Ercolani, M. Giordano (eds), Submerged Literature. Comparative and Anthropological perspectives, Ed. with A. Ercolani, Berlin and Boston 2016, 55-70
• “From Gaia to the Pythia: Prophecy Suits Women”, Journal of Ancient Judaism 3, 2015, 382-396 “Perché ad Atene cessarono le vendette? Dal sistema della vendetta al sistema della pena”, in A. Gostoli – R. Velardi (a cura di), Mythologein: mito e forme di discorso nel mondo antico. Studi in onore di G. Cerri, Roma 2014, 477-466
• “Introductory Notes”, with G. Colesanti, in G. Colesanti, M. Giordano, Submerged Literature in Ancient Greek Culture. An Introduction, Berlin and Boston 2014, 1-6
• “Out of Athens. Ritual Performances, Spaces, and the Emergence of Tragedy”, in G. Colesanti, M. Giordano, Submerged Literature in Ancient Greek Culture. An Introduction, Berlin and Boston 2014, 151-177
• “By Way of Conclusion”, with M. Broggiato, G. Colesanti et al., in G. Colesanti, M. Giordano, Submerged Literature in Ancient Greek Culture. An Introduction, Berlin and Boston, 2014, 178-187
• “Injure, honneur et vengeance en Grèce ancienne”, Cahiers ‘Mondes anciens’ 5, 2014, 1-13
• “Alien wisdom: il viaggio di sophia”, in A. Ercolani, P. Xella (Eds), La Sapienza nel Vicino Oriente e nel Mediterraneo antichi, Rome 2013, 19-42
• “La preghiera nei poemi omerici tra oralità e retorica” SemRom 1, 2012, 165-185
• “Gli dei nel De musica”, QUCC n.s. 99/3, 2011, 59-72
• “Women’s Voice and Religious Utterances in Ancient Greece”, in Religions 2011, 2, 729-743
• “Riflessioni sulla ‘magia’ greca”, AION  (sezione filologico - letteraria) 2011, 33, 191-202
• “Edipo a Colono: la palinodia della colpa. II”,  SemRom 10, 2, 2009, 231-251
• “Dei, Guerrieri e Phobos nei Sette contro Tebe”, Mediterraneo Antico, 2008 11, 1-2, 2008, 465-476
• “Guerra omerica e guerra oplitica nei Sette contro Tebe”, SemRom 9, 2, 2006, 271-298
• “Of Kings, Ransom and Power”, QUCC n.s. 83, 2006, 129-136
• “Ritual Appropriateness in the Seven against Thebes. Civic Religion in a Time of War”, Mnemosyne 59, 1, 2006, 52-74 .
• ‘Tragedia greca, religione e riduzionismi. Un bilancio critico a proposito di un nuovo studio di C. Sourvinou-Inwood’, QUCC, Fabrizio Serra QUCC 81, 3, 2005, 43-59.
• “As Socrates Shows, the Athenians Did not Believe in Gods”, Numen 52, 2005, 325-355
• “Musica e memoria nella trasmissione della lirica monodica”, in A.C. Cassio, R. Nicolai, R. Pretagostini e M. Vetta, Rhysmos. Studi di poesia, metrica e musica greca offerti dagli allievi a Luigi Enrico Rossi per i suoi settant’anni, Rome, 2004, 73-92
• “Edipo a Colono: la palinodia della colpa”, SemRom 7, 2004, 183-205
• “Come fare parole con le cose. Di Achille profeta, dei giuramenti, del tempo e dello scettro”, in S. Beta (ed.), La potenza della parola. Destinatari, funzioni, bersagli. Atti del convegno di Siena, 7-8 Maggio 2002, Quaderni del ramo d’oro, n. 6, Florence 2004, 15-32
•  “Personal jurisdiction and sacred space in the ancient Mediterranean”, pubblicazioni dell’ ISPI, Milan, 2002
• “Goos aretos. Tra maledizione e vendetta di sangue: un saggio di analisi semantica”, in AION sez. filol.-lett., 1998, 34-56
• Reviews
• S. Pulleyn, Prayer in Greek Religion, Scripta Classica Israelica 20, 2001, 267-272
• Rush Rehm, Understanding Greek Tragic Theatre. Second edition (first edition published 1992). Understanding the ancient world. London; New York: Routledge, 2017, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2018.05.40

Translations and Commentaries
Translations from ancient Greek into Italian of selected texts (Archilocus, Parmenides, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Epicurus, Libanius), with commentary and introduction, in L.E. Rossi-R. Nicolai, Storia e testi della letteratura greca, Florence 2003
Dopo il buddismo. Ripensare il Dharma per un’epoca laica, Ubaldini, Roma 2018, traduzione di S. Batchelor, After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age, Yale University Press, 2015

Invited Presentations (last five years)
15-17 June 2017, Verona (IT), University of Verona    International Symposium: ‘Kingship and Power’ ‘Athenian Power: Seven and the Democracy-in-arms’
27-28 October 2016, Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin     International conference: “Man, machine, animal and monster: The Post-human in ancient Greek literature?” ‘Flocks and monsters from Homer to Aeschylus’
9-12 August 2016 Sandbjerg, Denmark     International colloquium organized by Arhus UniversityXXX Aeschylus’ Persians: Empathizing with the Enemy or Orientalizing Them?
5 May 2016 Cambridge (UK), Institute of Classics    Ancient history seminar ‘Constructing Athens. Tragedy, war, and identity in the age of Cimon
July 2014 Vienna   
30 et 31 March 2012  EHESS, Paris, France    International conference : Paroles menaçantes, gestes infamants et mots interdits. Autour de l'insulte dans le monde grec archaïque et classique  Injure, honneur et vengeance en Grèce ancienne
8-10 February 2012 EHESS, Paris, France     International conference : ‘Agalma’ ‘Croyance et dieux-statues’


Funding received
1989 ERASMUS  nine-months undergraduate grant  Sorbonne, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France
1995 DAAD-  Ministry of Foreign Affairs Grant Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
1999 – 2000     Lady Davis Fellowship (Post-Doctorate) The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Mentoring
Jonathan Ben-dov (today professor of Biblical Studies, University of Haifa, mentoring during PhD period, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2001-2002)
Jonathan Cahana (today fellow of the university of Arhus, mentoring during his MA period, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2001-2002)
Kobi Peled (today fellow of the Department of  University of the Negev, during his PhD period,  Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1999-2002)