Ricerc@Sapienza

Nadia Cannata (Dott. Lett., Rome D.Phil, Oxon) is Professor of Italian Linguistics and Philology at Sapienza, Rome. She was Post-Doctoral Fellow (1991-2) and Leverhulme Grant Scholar of the British Academy (2001-2), Lecturer at Oxford University (1991-2) and at the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Reading (1992-2002), Fellow at the Harvard Center at Villa I Tatti (1998). She specialises in the Renaissance and has published on book history; poetry, vernacular and Neo-Latin; linguistic and literary theory, and their interrelations with fine art in the early Renaissance; orality and written records in Early Modern Europe. She was one of the curators of the exhibition I libri che hanno fatto l’Europa (Rome, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 2016) and directs the research project EDV (Italian Medieval Epigraphy in the Vernacular, 2016-).

Her most recent project concerns the creation in Sapienza of a Casa delle Lingue and a museum, EUROTALES - A Museum of the Voices of Europe which hosts both a research hub on the linguistic heritage and language cultures of Europe and an exhibiting space - both physical and virtual - curated by students and staff from the Dipartimento di Studi Europei, Americani e Interculturali, and the international partners of the project. She has published, with co-authors M.W. Gahtan and M.J.M. Sonmez the first comprehensive study of language museums : Language Museums and the Display of Intangoble Cultural Hetitage (Routledge, 2020).