Elisa Nuria MERISIO

WORK EXPERIENCE

December 2020 – November 2022

Post-doctoral research fellow
Università degli Studi di Firenze – Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia

January – June 2022

Digital markup based on the philological and grammatical analysis of the section “Lexicon of Atticism” in Priscian’s Ars (book XVIII) through “Cadmus” framework. ERC PAGES (Priscian’s Ars Grammatica in European Scriptoria) GA 882588 (P.I.: Michela Rosellini).

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

May 2021  

University Master’s Programme in “Text Technology – Digital Edition”
Grade: 110/110 cum laude
Università degli Studi di Siena – Dipartimento Filologia e critica delle letterature antiche e moderne

February 2020              

PhD in “Philology and History of the Ancient World” – Curriculum: Greek and Latin Philology
Grade: with honors
Dissertation: The metrical inscriptions from Eastern Phrygia under the Roman Empire: Greek paideia and local identity. Edition, translation and commentary
Supervisor: Prof. Gianfranco Agosti
Università degli Studi di Roma “Sapienza” – Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità 

March 2015

MA in Classics
Grade: 110/110 cum laude
Università degli Studi di Siena - Dipartimento Filologia e critica delle letterature antiche e moderne

December 2012

BA in Classics
Grade: 110/110 cum laude
Università degli Studi di Siena - Dipartimento Filologia e critica delle letterature antiche e moderne

ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

October 2020 – May 2022

Biblical Hebrew Course (up to Intermediate level) at the Dan Slusanschi School for Classical and Oriental Languages (online)

December 2020 – March 2021

Training in philological and grammatical markup of Latin grammatical texts through “Cadmus” framework (MA in “Text Technology – Digital Edition”) at Sapienza University of Rome within the framework of the Italian research project PRIN 2017 “Le tradizioni della linguistica antica: testi e contesti degli studi grammaticali nel mondo romano” (PI: Prof. Claudio Giammona).

4 – 5 October 2019

EpiDoc Workshop 2019 (Università degli Studi di Venezia “Ca’ Foscari”)

September 2017

XV Seminario papirologico fiorentino (Istituto papirologico “G. Vitelli”, Florence)

21 – 25 March 2016

Philologia Philosophica Herbipolensis IV (University of Würzburg – Germany), focused on the relationship between Epicurean and Roman tradition and on digital editing

September 2014

Summer School in Greek Metrics and Rhythmics (Università degli Studi di Urbino)

RESEARCH PERIODS ABROAD

September – November 2018/August 2019: University of St. Andrews (United Kingdom)

April – June 2018/March 2019: University of Salamanca (Spain)

October 2014 – January 2015: University of Heidelberg (Germany)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

21-22 March 2022

Lectures delivered within the framework of Master Course “Letteratura greca” held by Prof. Enrico Magnelli (Università degli Studi di Firenze). Subject: Epigrammi epigrafici di età ellenistica and Epigrammi epigrafici di età imperiale.

14 December 2021

Lecture delivered within the framework of PhD course “Filologia e Storia del Mondo Antico” (Università degli Studi di Roma “Sapienza”). Subject: Iscrizioni metriche dalla Frigia.

December 2018 – January 2019 / November 2017 – January 2018

Teaching assistant for courses OFA (Obbligo Formativo Aggiuntivo) designed to foster undergraduate students’ knowledge of Latin grammar and to practise translation of classical texts into Italian (Università degli Studi di Roma “Sapienza”)

October 2015 – May 2016

Italian teaching assistant at “Clara-Schumann Gymnasium” in Bonn (Germany)

May – June 2015

Temporary teacher of Latin language and literature at Liceo Scientifico Statale “Enrico Fermi” (Castel del Piano – Grosseto, Italy)

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Le iscrizioni metriche greche della Frigia di età romana: problemi di metodo nello studio di una letteratura periferica
“Seminari di cultura greca” – Autumn 2023
Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 30 November 2023

Lingua poetica e modelli neotestamentari in un’iscrizione metrica greca di Metropolis (Frigia)
First International Seminar for PhD Student and PhD in Classical Philology, organized by the Italian “Consulta Universitaria di Filologia Classica” (CUFiCl)
Pontificio Istituto Orientale, Rome, 24 November 2023

Una rilettura di P.Vindob. G 29788, fr. 3 Livrea = APHex I, 45.3 Perale
“Il Calamo della memoria”, X
Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 17 – 18 October 2023

Digital approaches to ancient Greek lexicography: The Digital Encyclopedia of Atticism (together with O. Tribulato)
International Workshop “Classical Texts in Digital Media”
University of Patras (Greece), 1 – 3 September 2023

‘Epicureismo’ e cristianesimo in un epigramma funerario di Apameia
International conference “La poesía epigráfica: retos y nuevas perspectivas en su estudio”
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spagna), 23 – 25 November 2022

Βούβρωστις: interpretazioni e fortuna di uno hapax omerico
“Laboratorio di filologia e letteratura classiche” 2022/2023
DILEF – Università degli Studi di Firenze, 17 November 2022

Traditional and New Poetic Language in Two Epigraphic Epigrams from Dokimeion (Phrygia)
XVI Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae (Panel 10 – Carmina Epigraphica)
University of Bordeaux (France), 29 August – 2 September 2022

Aspetti digitali innovativi nel progetto PAGES: Cadmus (together with A. Consalvi and P. Monella)
“Ricerche di filologia latina intorno al progetto ERC PAGES (AdG 2019 n. 882588)” 
Università degli Studi di Roma “Sapienza”, 12 April 2022

Le iscrizioni metriche giudaiche di età ellenistica e imperiale: una poesia dispersa
MAPPOLA Workshop “Latin Poetry in the Greek East & Greek Poetry in the Latin West”
25 – 26 February 2021 (online) 

Figure di governatori e notabili nelle iscrizioni metriche della Frigia orientale
International conference “Metrical inscriptions in the late Roman Empire: society, politics and culture between East and West. Seventy years after Louis Robert, Hellenica IV (1948)”
Università degli Studi di Roma “Sapienza”, 18 – 19 November 2019

Il plurilinguismo nell’Asia Minore di età romana attraverso la documentazione epigrafica: interazioni tra greco, latino e lingue locali
Second International Colloquium on Plurilingualism
Università degli Studi di Udine, 13 – 15 November 2019

Language and Imagery in Christian Greek Funerary Epigrams from Phrygian-Lykaonian Borderland in the Late Roman Empire
AIAS Workshop “Cultural Identity and Transmission in Early Christian Literature” (PhD Session)
University of Aarhus (Denmark), 12 – 14 June 2019

Local Poets and Literary Models in Metrical Inscriptions from the Phrygian Highlands: Two Case Studies
International Workshop “Epigraphy and Literature in the Imperial Age, Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages”
University of St. Andrews (United Kingdom), 4 March 2019 (Skype presentation)

Declinazioni provinciali della poesia greca in età imperiale: le iscrizioni metriche della Frigia
“Lirica, epigramma e critica letteraria” – Third Seminar organized by the Italian “Consulta Universitaria del greco” (CUG)
Università degli Studi di Roma “Sapienza”, 30 November 2018

The Metrical Funerary Inscriptions from Phrygia under the Roman Empire: Greek paideia and Local Identity
Research Seminar organized by the Centre for Late Antique Studies 
University of St. Andrews (United Kingdom), 9 November 2018

Interaction between Greek and Neo-Phrygian in Funerary Epigrams from Eastern Phrygia under the Roman Empire
International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics (ICAGL 9)
University of Helsinki (Finland), 30 August – 1st September 2018

Le “isole dei beati” nell’epigrafia funeraria greca tardo-imperiale: la fortuna di un topos letterario classico
International Conference “Manes adite paterni! Family Spirits in the Greco-Roman World”
University of Heidelberg (Germany), 20 – 21 July 2018

Ganymede in Phrygia: the Readaptation of a Myth between Identity-Related Memory and Eschatological Hopes
International Medieval Congress (IMC 2018)
University of Leeds (United Kingdom), 2 – 5 July 2018

Gli epigrammi epigrafici della Frigia di età imperiale: tra paideia greca e identità locale
Presentation delivered at the University of Salamanca (Spain) within the framework of the “Doctorado de Investigación en Textos de la Antigüedad Clásica y su Pervivencia” coordinated by Prof. Maria Paz de Hoz (23 May 2018)

The Role of Prophets in Late Antiquity: the Evidence of Two Funerary Epigrams from Phrygia
PhD Colloquium on Late Antiquity
University of Reading (United Kingdom), 4 – 5 May 2018

L’astrologo Epitynchanos: reminiscenze neoplatoniche e linguaggio poetico in un epigramma funerario della Frigia di IV d.C.
Semi di Sapienza 2018
Università degli Studi di Roma “Sapienza”, 15 February 2018

Morire in terra straniera: gli epigrammi funerari epigrafici greci nei cenotafi di età ellenistica e imperiale.
Ricerche a confronto XII: “Le forme del pianto”, organized by RODOPIS Association in collaboration with Università degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo”
Università degli Studi di Urbino, 15 November 2017

Semonide o Simonide? Le alterne vicende dell’attribuzione di un frammento elegiaco greco.
Prolepsis’ Second International Postgraduate Conference 
«Auctor est aequivocum»: Authenticity, Authority and Authorship from the Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Università degli Studi di Bari, 26 – 27 October 2017

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

Transition and Transformation: the Early Reception of the Greek and Roman Inheritance (3rd – 8th c. CE) [Panel 10]
Celtic Conference in Classics 2019
University of Coimbra (Portugal), 26 – 29 June 2019
(together with G. Agostini, A. Salsano, E. Zimbardi)

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Italian: native speaker

English: B2 (University of Cambridge ESOL)

German: B2

French: excellent reading

Spanish: excellent reading

Ancient languages Ancient Greek (professionally)
Classical Latin (professionally)
Biblical Hebrew (intermediate)

COMPUTER SKILLS

Good knowledge of Microsoft Office tools.
Good knowledge of the main bibliographical tools for philological studies.
Good knowledge of HTML and XML (TEI; EpiDoc).
Good knowledge of Cadmus software (philological and linguistic markup of Classical Text): https://fusisoft.net/cadmus/.
Basic knowledge of Python.
Good knowledge of Wordpress, Omeka and Adobe InDesign.
Creations of E-books.

Implementation of the Project “Don Antonio Brandi. Montalcino, il suo territorio e la sua storia” (website: https://www.donantoniobrandi.it)