Speriani Silvia

EDUCATION

Researchfellowship, Università degli Studi di Siena

I am currently working on visual dynamics, evidentiaand phantasia in Petronius.

Ph.D. in Classics, Scuola Normale Superiore

 

01/01/2020-31/12/2020

01/11/2014-10/07/2019

Achieved with honours, 10/07/2019. Supervisors: Prof. Gianpiero Rosati; Prof. Stephen Harrison

Ph.D. thesis: Ajax. A Roman Myth.

Tutorial teaching workshop, University of Oxford

Supervisor: Prof. Felix Budelmann

13-17/03/2017

Fully funded visiting scholarship, University of Oxford

Ph.D. visiting student – Member of St. John’s College, Oxford

01/10/2016-30/06/2017

Diploma IUSS, University School for Advanced Studies

Supervisors: Prof. Elisa Romano; Prof. Andrea Moro

03/07/2015

Post-graduate exchange funding, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

            

01/04/2014-31/07/2014

MA Degree in Ancient Philology, Literature and History, University of Pavia

Grade: 110/110 with honours, 14/04/2014. Supervisors: Prof. Stephen Harrison; Prof. Elisa Romano

2011-2014

MA research exchange funding, Universität Konstanz

    01/09/2013-28/02/2014

Fully funded exchange scholarship, University of Cambridge

M.Phil. visiting student – Member of St. John’s College, Cambridge

01/10/2012-30/06/2013

BA Degree in Classical and Near Eastern Studies, Universitàdeglistudi di Pavia

Grade: 110/110 with honours, 13/09/2011. Supervisors: Prof. Fabio Gasti; Prof. Alberto Canobbio

2008-2011

WORK EXPERIENCE

Supplementaryteaching,Università degli studi di Siena

01/03/2020-present

I teach Textual Criticism and Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin, within Prof. Graverini’s and Prof. Guastella’sannual plan of lectures.

External Collaborator, Arnoldo Mondadori S.p.A.

01/10/2019-present

I am responsible for editing Latin and Greek textbooks and I am currently working on the new edition of the Latin Literature Textbook written by Prof. Gian Biagio Conte. Superivisor: Dr. Laura Rossi, chief-editor.

External Collaborator, Corriere della Sera RCS S.p.A.

01/10/2019-present

I see to the editorial process of the newspaper “Corriere della Sera”. Supervisor: Dr. Antonio Troiano, chief-editor.

Vicepresident of fActors

01/03/2018-present

fActors is an association aimed to annually organise a 4-day international Festival of Academic Theatre (“FAcT”, see: http://fact.sns.it/edizioni-2/edizione19/). In collaboration with ScuolaNormale, fActorshas founded a Theatre Research Group (“ReAcT, Research in Academic Theatre”). In 2021-22, fActors will also produce and stage two original dramaturgies, as part of the collaboration with Teatro Civico di La Spezia ("STePS, Scuola Teatro Pisa-La Spezia”).

Exam assessor, Scuola Normale Superiore

01/08/2015-30/09/2018

I contributed to assess the admission exams in Latin language. Supervisor: Prof. Gianpiero Rosati.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Papers:

  • Speriani, S. 2019. “(corto)Circuiti visivi nel Panegirico di Plinio a Traiano.”Maia 71.2: 304-20.
  • Speriani, S. 2019. “Eroe all’origine, hebes per ricezione: Aiace e la maschera del miles.” In Atti del IV Seminario nazionale per dottorandi e dottori di ricerca in studi latini. P. De Paolis, E. Romano (eds.). La Biblioteca di ClassicoContemporaneo 10: 83-104. 
  • Speriani, S. 2018. “The Spectacle of Gazes: Seeing and Being Seen in the First Book of Horace's Epistles.” The Classical Journal 113.4: 428-52.

Conference organiser:

  • The Estates General of Academic Theatre.Theories and practices of academic theatre in Europe (International Conference, Pisa, 11/06/2019).

Conference speaker (selected):

  • Visual Culture in the Classical World (Prague, 16-17/12/2019): “Visual (short)circuits in Pliny’s Panegyric”.
  • Cantieri d’Eccellenza. Seminari Annuali dedicati all’Antico (Pavia, 16/10/2019): “L’Ara Pacis el’Ecloga IV: verso un’analisi del discorso multimodale nel mondo antico”.
  • Pliny’s Panegyric. International Workshop (Cortona, 23-24/03/2018): “Trajan’s eyes and the spectacle of power in Pliny’s Panegyric”.
  • IV Seminario Nazionale per Dottorandi e Dottori di Ricerca in Studi Latini (Rome, 01/12/2017): “Soldati plautini e parodie eroiche: Aiace nella maschera del miles”.
  • Recherches Doctorales en LittératureGrecque et Latine (Pisa-Paris, 15-17/05/2017): “Gerarchie visive, clientese amici”.
  • Graduate Research Seminar (Oxford, 09/05/2017): “Ajax, a Roman hero”.
  • Colonial and Post-Colonial Voices (Oxford,09/03/2017): “Roman voices in the construction of the Fascist colonial identity”.
  • Seminario di Archeologia Greca e Romana (Pisa, 19/10/2016): “Acrobazie di un suicida. Emotività e controllo nel‘difficile’ suicidio di Aiace”.
  • (Re)viewing Reality: Visuality and Perception in the Ancient World (Toronto,01-02/04/2016): “Seeing and being seen in the first book of Horace’s Epistles”.
  • The Senses and Visual Culture from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Bristol,08-09/06/2015): “Seeing in society. Horace and the spectacle of glances”.

AWARDS                        

  • Presidential award: “Medaglia del Presidente della Repubblica” awarded to FAcT (2018, 2019)
  • Thesis award“Aurelio Bernardi” (2014)
  • Member of CollegioGhislierias result of a nationwide competition (2008-2014)
  • First prize: Certamen LatinumFirmanum” (2007)

LANGUAGE SKILLS

  • ITALIAN: native speaker
  • ENGLISH: IELTS level 8 ~CEFRC1/C2 (December 2011)
  • GERMAN: Sprachschule Verbum Novum, Mainz. Course level B2 (September 2015)