– British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford
– Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford
– Affiliated Researcher, ERC CoG MELA – The Meaning of Language, Department of Linguistics, Universiteit Gent
Current projects:
– Teaching Greek in Eleventh-Century Byzantium. Schedography and Its Methods
– P.I. of the TORCH Network Poetry in the Medieval World
– P.I. of the John Fell Fund Project “Euripides Byzantinus”
– Coordinator of the Pillar “Humans and Their literatures”, MIT Global Humanities Initiative
– Lead-Coordinator of the GHI Project “The Atlas of Human Literatures”, MIT Global Humanities Initiative
Former positions:
– Research Fellow in Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection (Trustees for Harvard University) [2025–2026]
– Maria Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Universiteit Gent [2022]
– Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Project: The Legacy of the Psalms in Byzantine Poetry (FWF Project: I 3544-G25; PI: Andreas Rhoby), Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften [2021–2022]
Alumnus, of the Università degli Studi di Milano (Bachelor 2015, Master 2017, PhD 2021)
– Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford
– Affiliated Researcher, ERC CoG MELA – The Meaning of Language, Department of Linguistics, Universiteit Gent
Current projects:
– Teaching Greek in Eleventh-Century Byzantium. Schedography and Its Methods
– P.I. of the TORCH Network Poetry in the Medieval World
– P.I. of the John Fell Fund Project “Euripides Byzantinus”
– Coordinator of the Pillar “Humans and Their literatures”, MIT Global Humanities Initiative
– Lead-Coordinator of the GHI Project “The Atlas of Human Literatures”, MIT Global Humanities Initiative
Former positions:
– Research Fellow in Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection (Trustees for Harvard University) [2025–2026]
– Maria Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Universiteit Gent [2022]
– Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Project: The Legacy of the Psalms in Byzantine Poetry (FWF Project: I 3544-G25; PI: Andreas Rhoby), Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften [2021–2022]
Alumnus, of the Università degli Studi di Milano (Bachelor 2015, Master 2017, PhD 2021)
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«Bisanzio e l'Occidente» 3 (2021), 11-18 = Cultura letteraria e artistica tra Bisanzio e l’Occidente, a cura di C. Castelli - M. Della Valle - A. Torno Ginnasi, Ledizioni, Milano 2021, pp. 53-63.
Workshop/Panel/Conference Organisation by Ugo Mondini
The event features opportunities for discussion and interdisciplinary exchange, inviting participants to reflect on how poetry mediates questions of literary prestige, identity, and memory across linguistic and cultural boundaries. At its heart, the project reconceives the medieval world as a space where poetry not only reflected but actively shaped sociopolitical and linguistic transformation.
Speakers: Imre Bangha (Oxford); Dominic Brookshaw (Oxford); Wiebke Denecke (MIT); Thibaut d’Hubert (University of Chicago); Jane Gilbert (UCL); Martin Orwin (Napoli L’Orientale); Alberto Ravani (Princeton); Elizabeth Tyler (University of York).
The event includes dedicated time for discussion and reflection, allowing participants to engage in a broader conversation about language, identity, and cultural transmission. At its core, the project reimagines the medieval and early modern Mediterranean, not merely as a space of teaching, learning, and multilingual exchange.
Speakers: Samet Budak (ANAMED Koç University); S. Peter Cowe (UCLA); Erica Field-Marchello (Exeter College, Oxford); Mark Janse (University of Cambridge); Michiel Leezenberg (University of Amsterdam); Giorgia Nicosia (Ghent University); Lucy Parker (University of Nottingham).
– Oumelbanine Zhiri, University of California San Diego, “Morisco Writing Between Arabic and Spanish”
– Ugo Mondini, University of Oxford & Michele Didoli, University of Ghent, “A Language to Be Understood: Preaching in Greek in the Ottoman Empire, 1500s–1600s”
– Erica Feild-Marchello, Exeter College, University of Oxford, “‘It is among the oldest languages’: Arabic, Linguistic Histories, and Politics in Early Modern Spain”
– Julia Hernández, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library: “Performance Philology: Strategic Displays of Textual Criticism in Quevedo’s Anacreón castellano (1609)”
Chair: Pier Mattia Tommasino, Columbia University
While nowadays writing a poetic book or compiling an anthology implies a negotiation with established traditions and criteria, the reasons behind this process in the Middle Ages may not be that apparent and still largely lie unexplored. Were they striving to gather world-embracing poetic encyclopaedias, or were they perhaps led by their individual rationales or shared narrative structures? The broader question is what ideas of medieval poetry and poetry books we can glean from these sources, where medieval poetry is transmitted and its life withheld.
We take a comparative approach; each speaker focuses on a literary tradition that flourished around the Medieval Mediterranean. Our invited speakers are Marisa Galvez (Stanford University) for Romance Languages, Niels Gaul (University of Edinburgh) for Greek, Marlé Hammond (SOAS) for Arabic and Adriano Russo (École française de Rome) for Latin.
Ugo Mondini, University of Oxford: How to process innovation in Byzantine literature
Alberto Ravani, University of Oxford: Under Achilles’ shadow. Power and the Iliad in Comnenian and later Byzantium
Andrea Cuomo, Ghent University: The inclusive exclusivity of Greek texts: The Byzantine literature
Ugo Mondini, University of Oxford: Education as Contact: Causes, Strategies, and Effects of New Teaching Methods, 10th-11th Centuries
Michael Cooperson, UCLA: Love in the Contact Zone
Andrea Cuomo, Ghent University: Power and Legitimacy in Context: John Kantakouzenos’ Rhetoric of Power Addressed to the Pope, the People of Constantinople, and the Mamluk Sultan
– Martin Hinterberger, University of Cyprus: Manuel Philes’ metaphraseis minores of Basil and Lucian
– Ugo Mondini, Austrian Academy of Sciences: From Davidic lyre to political verses. The Metaphrasis of the Psalms by Manuel Philes
– Theodora Antonopoulou, University of Athens: From prose to verse: Merkourios the Grammarian and his rewriting technique
– Julián Bértola, Ghent University: Rewriting history in verse: The case of Ephraim of Ainos
– Alberto Ravani, University of Oxford: «As told by Homer and by other poets». The poetic metaphrasis of the Iliad by Constantine Hermoniakos