Linda ZAMPOL D'ORTIA

- Education
Ph.D. in Religious Studies and History
University of Otago 2017
Dissertation: “The Cape of the Devil: Salvation in the Japanese Jesuit Mission Under
Francisco Cabral (1570-1579)”

M.A. in Religious Studies (Asia)
Università degli Studi di Padova / Università Ca’Foscari Venezia 2010

B.A. in East Asian Studies (Japan)
Università Ca’Foscari Venezia 2007

-Research
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship 2021-present
Department of Asian and N. African Studies, Università Ca’Foscari Venezia 
Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
Project: “Emotions as Practice in the early modern Jesuit missions in the Asia-Pacific”

Vittorio Branca Fellowship 08/2019-11/2019
Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice 
Project: “Emotions and Conversion: Early Modern Jesuits in Asia”

Visiting Research Fellowship 06/2018-09/2018
Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe”
Ruhr-Universität Bochum (DE) 
Project: “Religion and the Senses: Religious Garments in the Jesuit Mission to Japan”

Harold S. Williams Fellowship for Research in Japan Studies 01/2018-03/2018
National Library of Australia (AU) 
Project: “Perceptions of Missionary Failure in Japan (1549-1639)”

Research Assistant 2015
CHAM – Centre for the Humanities, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (PT)
Project: “Interactions Between Rivals: The Christian Mission and Buddhist Sects in Japan”
Principal Investigator: Prof. Alexandra Curvelo

- Teaching Experience
Lecturer: “Religions and Philosophies of Ancient Japan” 2021
Department of Asian and N. African Studies, Ca’Foscari University Venice
Advanced course on Catholicism in Sixteenth-Seventeenth-century Japan

Lecturer: “Asian Religions and the West” 2014, 2016
Department of Theology and Religion, University of Otago 
Advanced course on Orientalism and Asian religions

Tutor: “The History of Christianity” 2014
Department of Theology and Religion, University of Otago
Introductory course on the History and Theology of Christianity

Lecturer and Tutor: “Judaism, Christianity and Islam” 2012, 2013
Department of Theology and Religion, University of Otago 

- Talks (selection)
“Emotional paths to Catholic evangelization in sixteenth-century Japan: Consolation”
Conference: “Lived Religion in Europe 1500-1800: Individual and Communal Practice" (Aix-
Marseille Université / Queen Mary University of London)” 2021. Invited.

“Tracing Feelings on Paper: Emotions in the Early Modern Missions in Asia”
Conference: “Translating and Connecting Worlds. Missionary Sources, Religious Diversity and
Cultural Pluralism” (ReIRes, Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea, CNR), 2021. Invited.

“Conversion, Martyrdom, and Salvation: Jesuit and Presbyterian Missionaries and Failure”
Conference: “Jesuit and Pietist missions during the long Eighteenth century in cross-confessional perspective” (Universität Hamburg / Franckesche Stiftungen, Halle), 2019. Invited.

“Debates on the Success of the Early Modern Jesuit Mission to Japan”
Seminar, Department of History, Universität Hamburg, 2019. Invited.

“Jesuit Soteriological Preoccupations in the Early Modern Mission in Japan”
Annual Conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies, 2018.

“Francisco Cabral and the Negotiation of Jesuit Identity in Japan (1570-1580)”
Conference: “Exploring Jesuit Distinctiveness,” Institute of Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College, 2015.

“Purple Silk and Black Cotton: Francisco Cabral and the Negotiation of Jesuit Identity between India and Japan”
Conference: “Los misioneros cristianos como intelectuales interculturales, 1500-1800,” El Colegio de Mexico, 2014. Invited.