Piero Boitani#
| Membership Number: | 1989 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2000 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007 - 2010 Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Italian Switzerland, Lugano
- 2004 - 2010 Director of SUM-Sapienza Ph.D. program in European Literature and Culture
- Since 1998 Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Rome “Sapienza”
- 1985 - 1998 Professor of English Literature at the University of Rome “Sapienza”
Fields of Scholarship
- Modern literature
- Dante
- Medieval literature
- Ancient myth
Honours and Awards
- Fellow of the British Academy
- Member of the the Academia Europaea
- Member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino
- Member of the Accademia dell’Arcadia
- Member of the Medieval Academy of America
- Member of the Dante Society of America
- Member of the Accademia dei Lincei
- 1989 - 1995 President of the European Society for English Studies
- Arts and Humanities Advisor to the American Academy in Rome
- 2002 Feltrinelli Prize for Literary Criticism
- 2010 De Sanctis Prize
- 2016 Balzan Prize
