Paolo Rota

In addition to offering courses on the modern Italian narrative and on major Italian writers (such as Verga and Pirandello) at E.C.Co., Prof. Paolo Rota has taught “The teaching of Italian language and literature” at the Scuola di Specializzazione per l’Insegnamento Superiore at the University of Bologna, and “The philology of Italian literature” at the Facoltà di Conservazione dei Beni Culturali, based in Ravenna. He has also been a guest lecturer at the University of Ghent in Belgium and at Brown University in Providence, RI.
For the Fall Semester 2011 he is teaching a writing course at the University of Bologna. Prof. Rota is the author of numerous volumes on nineteenth-century Italian literature, in particular on the work of Giacomo Leopardi (Lune leopardiane, Leopardi e la Bibbia, commentaries onAppunti e ricordi and Lettere bolognesi), and scholarly articles on major Italian writers (Dante, Boccaccio, Monti, Pirandello, Montale, etc.), some of which were also presented at international conferences. For many years, he has collaborated with the journal Studi e problemi di critica testuale