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Stefano Versace
My main research interests lie in the field of Italian and comparative literary linguistics, with specific reference to poetry, in general, and to meter, in particular. I've lately developed an original linguistic account of the Italian endecasillabo meter. An article on the Modern Greek meter dekapentesyllavo (joint work with Nina Topintzi) is due to appear soon. Together with colleagues at University of Budapest and at the MPI Nijmegen I am working towards a new database of verse forms in the languages of the world, VerseTyp2.
I currently am a sessional lecturer at the University of Frankfurt, where I teach prosodic phonology and the linguistics of poetic meter to BA and MA students, respectively. I’ve recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max-Planck-Institut für Empirische Ästhetik in Frankfurt. I thereby developed the first experiment conducted in the MPIEA labs, for which I was the PI. My current research projects focus in first place to the application of new research paradigms to the study of poetry, from the theoretical through the empirical one.
Another strand of my research relates to the study of the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi. In particular I'm currently interested in looking at several aspects of both his poetry and philosophy. In the past I've published on the logico-rethorical form analogy, with particular reference to his philosophical work, the Zibaldone; in acknowledgement of my work, I've been appointed an honorary Research Fellow of the Leopardi Centre at the University of Birmingham. So, applying new methods of literary criticism to the study of Leopardi's work is indeed my cup of tea as well. Currently I'm preparing my first monograph, titled Leopardy/Theory, which will read different aspects of Leopardi's theoretical and poetical work in the light of the most recent advances in the literary-linguistic-psychological theory of literature.
I’ve recently supervised an MA student's dissertation at the University of Bologna (on generative metrics with an Italian 20th century poetry corpus). Since 2010 I’ve been serving as a referee for the Journal of Linguistics, and since 2014 for Entimema, and Modern Language Review.
I currently am a sessional lecturer at the University of Frankfurt, where I teach prosodic phonology and the linguistics of poetic meter to BA and MA students, respectively. I’ve recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max-Planck-Institut für Empirische Ästhetik in Frankfurt. I thereby developed the first experiment conducted in the MPIEA labs, for which I was the PI. My current research projects focus in first place to the application of new research paradigms to the study of poetry, from the theoretical through the empirical one.
Another strand of my research relates to the study of the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi. In particular I'm currently interested in looking at several aspects of both his poetry and philosophy. In the past I've published on the logico-rethorical form analogy, with particular reference to his philosophical work, the Zibaldone; in acknowledgement of my work, I've been appointed an honorary Research Fellow of the Leopardi Centre at the University of Birmingham. So, applying new methods of literary criticism to the study of Leopardi's work is indeed my cup of tea as well. Currently I'm preparing my first monograph, titled Leopardy/Theory, which will read different aspects of Leopardi's theoretical and poetical work in the light of the most recent advances in the literary-linguistic-psychological theory of literature.
I’ve recently supervised an MA student's dissertation at the University of Bologna (on generative metrics with an Italian 20th century poetry corpus). Since 2010 I’ve been serving as a referee for the Journal of Linguistics, and since 2014 for Entimema, and Modern Language Review.
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