Scappaticcio, Maria Chiara

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Maria Chiara Scappaticcio is Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Naples ‘Federico II’, where she also served as Principal Investigator for the European Research Council-funded project PLATINUM (Papyri and Latin Texts: Insights and Updated Methodologies – Towards a Philological, Literary and Historical Approach to Latin Papyri, ERC-StG 2014 no. 636983). She is a member of the PhD-course in ‘Philology’ at the  ‘Federico II’, while since 2018 she has been in the PhD-board in ‘Archeologia e Culture del Mondo Antico’ at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale (Napoli). She is currently the national P.I. of a PRIN 2022 (Progetto di Ricerca di Interesse Nazionale) entitled Roman Orientalism: Mapping Cultural Interactions through Latin Literature (1st c. BCE – 2nd c. CE). She has held several postdoctoral positions (e.g. at the Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes – IRHT) in Paris, and has been a visiting fellow at Columbia University, New York University, the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa), and the Université Paris-Sorbonne. She coordinates an international agreement with the UFR of Latin at the Sorbonne and another with the Archaeological Park of Pompeii. She has delivered numerous papers at scholarly conferences and is regularly invited to speak at academic events in Italy and abroad. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Giornale Italiano di Filologia and is a member of the scientific advisory boards of various journals and book series. A Latinist with strong philological and linguistic interests, her research focuses on Latin literary texts transmitted through papyri, on Roman ancient education and grammar, on fragmentary Latin literature, on Latin literacy in Pompeii, and the literary dimensions of Roman political canvassing. She has published widely, including two monographs with De Gruyter: Artes grammaticae in frammenti. I testi grammaticali latini e bilingui su papiro: edizione commentata (2015), and Fabellae: frammenti di favole latine e bilingui greco-latine di tradizione diretta (II–IV d.C.) (2017). She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the forthcoming six-volume Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus (Cambridge University Press, expected August 2025), and her monograph Latin Literature on Papyrus: A Companion to Texts from the Eastern Empire is under review with CUP. She is currently preparing a monograph on Latin literature in Pompeii (Voci. Il latino di Pompei) and a new annotated edition of the Commentariolum petitionis.