Veronica ORAZI

Full Professor SPAN-01/A Spanish Literature and Catalan Literature.

ANVUR Evaluation Expert - System and Disciplinary Experts Profile and TECO Experts Profile.

Evaluator eCOST – European Cooperation in Science & Technology Research Projects.

Evaluator CORDIS – Community Research and Development Information Service, European Commission.

Corresponding Member of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans in Barcelona.

Academic Education:

1996: PhD in Ibero-Romance Philology (8th cycle, 1992-1995), Unifi, thesis published (1999) and awarded (2000).

1991: MA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literature, Unifi, grade 110/110 cum laude, thesis published in Italy (1994) and Spain (1997).

Institutional Positions:

2021-2025: Member (2021-2023) then President (2023-2025) of the Quality and Evaluation Board of UNITA European University.

2021-2025: Delegate of the Rector for the development of United International Relations with Mexico.

2022-2025: UNITA European University contact person for the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Modern Cultures, Unito.

2021-2022: Member of the EUA – European University Association Peer Groups "Internal Quality Assurance in times of COVID-19. Digitally Enhanced Learning & Teaching" e "Strategy and Organizational Culture".

2016-2022: Member (2016-2020) then President (2020-2022) of the quality Assurance Board, Unito.

2015: Member of the Commission for the Operational Coordination of Support for ANVUR Accreditation of Unito.

2012-2024: Member of the Library Commission of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Modern Cultures, Unito.

Academic-Scientific Positions:

2024-2026: Area 10 GEV coordinator for VQR 2020-2024, ANVUR.

2012-2025: Member of the Research Commission of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Modern Cultures, Unito.

2022-2025: Scientific Coordinator of Spoke 3 - Digital Libriaries, Archives and Philology, PNRR PE5, Unito.

2024-2025: Representative of the Human Sciences Macro Area in the Doctoral School Board, Unito.

2024-2025: Coordinator of the PhD in Modern Languages and Literatures, Unito.

2021-2024: Unito Coordinator of the PhD in Digital Humanities. Digital Technologies, Arts, Languages, Cultures and Communication, Unito-Unige.

2012-2025: Unito Responsible for the Collaboration Agreement in Research, Development and Innovation with the Universidad de Alicante and the University of California Santa Barbara.

2014-2024: Member of the Collegium of the PhD in Digital Humanities. Digital technologies, arts, languages, cultures and communication, Unito-Unige.

2013- : Member of the Collegium of the International PhD in Transferencias interculturales e históricas en la Europa Medieval Mediterránea, Universidad de Alicante.

2002-2014: Member of the Collegium of the PhD in Foreign Languages and Literatures, Linguistics and Onomastics, Unito.

2002-2005: Member of the Master in Literary Translation and Text Editing, Unisi.

Scientific Collaborations:

2024- : Member of the RIITLE – Red Internacional de Investigadores Teatrales Latinoamericanos y Europeos.

2023- : Member of the Consell Assessor de l’IIFL – Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Valenciana delle Università di València, Alacant e Jaume I di Castelló de la Plana.

2022- : Member of the Consell Assessor del CRAE – Centre de Recerca en Arts Escèniques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

2017- : Member of the Center for Catalan Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California Santa Barbara, CA, USA.

2012- : Member of the Instituto Superior de Investigación Cooperativa IVITRA, Universidad de Alicante.

Experience in Research Evaluation in Academic-institutional Areas:

2024- : Evaluator, eCOST – European Cooperation in Science & Technology Research Projects.

2020: GEV candidate eligible for VQR 2015-2019.

2019-2020: Remote Referee, Panel SH5 Culture and Cultural Production, ERC Grants.

2018- : Evaluator, FWO – Research Foundation Flanders.

2018: External evaluator of research grant projects, University of Insubria.

2015- : Member of the REPRISE – Register of Expert Peer Reviewers for Italian Scientific Evaluation, MIUR/ANVUR.

2015: Member of the Commission for the evaluation of mobility projects WWS2 - World Wide Style2, Unito.

2013- : Evaluator/Reviewer, CORDIS – Community Research and Development Information Service, European Commission.

2012-2015: Member of the Interuniversity Group for Research Assessment, Universities of Turin, Milan, Padua, Bologna.

2012-2015: Member of the MIUR/ANVUR Expert Evaluators Register.

Scientific-editorial Appointments in Academia:

2025- : Member of the Sceintific Committee of the Cuadernos AISPI. Estudios de lenguas y literaturas hispánicas (Classe A).

2014- : Co-Director of the Bibliotheca Iberica Series, Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso.

2013-2025: Member of the Editorial Board of the Cuadernos AISPI. Estudios de lenguas y literaturas hispánicas (Classe A).

2011- : Editorial Director of the Rivista Italiana di Studi Catalani (Class A).

1995-2008: Member of the Editorial Board of Medioevo Latino. Bollettino bibliografico della cultura europea da Boezio a Erasmo (secoli VI – XV), SISMEL – Società Italiana per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino.

Experience in Scientific Evaluation in the Academic-editorial field in Italy and abroad:

2024- : Member of the Comité Científic della Collana Folia Germà Colón, IIFV – Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Valenciana.

2023- : Member of the Comité Científic della Collana Primera lliçó, PAM, Barcelona.

2022-2025: Member of the Comité Científic della Revista de Catalunya.

2019- : Member of the International Scientific Commetee della Collana IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literatures, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam.

2019- : Member of the International Scientific Commetee della rivista Mirabilia Journal. Electronic Journal of Antiquity, Medieval and Modern Ages.

2019-2022: Member of the Consell de Direcció of the Series Biblioteca Abat Oliba, Biblioteca Milà i Fontanals, Biblioteca Serra d’Or e Textos i Estudis de Cultura Catalana, PAM, Barcelona.

2017- : Member of the Editorial Board delle riviste eHumanista (University of California Santa Barbara, USA, Classe A), Llengua&Literatura (Universitat de Barcelona, Classe A).

2005- : Member of the Scientific Committee of the Ricerche Intermedievali Series, Edizioni dell'Orso, Alessandria.

Peer reviewer for the Classe A academic journals: Altre Modernità, ALEC. Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea, Artifara, Carte Romanze, Llengua&Literatura, Orillas. Rivista d’Ispanistica, Quaderns d’Italià, Rassegna Iberistica, Rivista di Filologia e Letterature Ispaniche, Rivista Italiana di Studi Catalani, Ticontre. Teoria Testo Traduzione, Il Nome nel Testo, Cuadernos AISPI. Estudios de lenguas y literaturas hispánicas, Medioevo Romanzo, ecc.; and for the scientific academi journals: ACOTACIONES. Investigación y Creación Teatral, Brumal. Revista de investigación sobre lo fantástico, Haidé. Estudis Maragallians, In Verbis, Kamchatka, LEA. Lingue e Letterature d’Oriente e d’Occidente, RiCOGNIZIONI, Diablotexto Digital. Revista de crítica literaria, InScriptum: A Journal of Language and Literary Studies, Don Galán, ecc.

Experience in Academic Assessment (selections) in Italy and abroad:

2021-2023: Member (Segretary) of the Commissione ASN – Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale, per il SC 10/I1 Lingue, letterature e culture spagnola e ispano-americane.

Since 2005, she has been a member and president of some 20 selection commissions, in Italy and abroad.

Research Fellowships:

2000-2002: Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice; project “Edizione critica del Libro de buen amor di Juan Ruiz”, dir. M. Ciceri.

1999: Accademia della Crusca, Florence; project “Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini” (TLIO), Centro Studi Opera del Vocabolario Italiano, dir. P. Beltrami; individual research area: analysis of arabisms of Hispanic origin.

1997-1998: IEC – Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona; project “La tradizione manoscritta della Crònica di Ramon Muntaner”, supervisor J. Massot i Muntaner.

Direction/Participation in National and International Research Projects/Groups:

2024-2026: PI of the International research project Glocal Perspectives on Iberian Studies. Phase 9: Memorial Patterns of the Spanish State Theatre in Times of Democracy (1975 to present).

2023-2025: National PI of the project PRIN 2022 Identity Heritage and Cultural Memory. The Elaboration of the Past through the Theatre of Democratic Spain (1975 to present), Prot. 202285ZT47 – CUP D53D23014880006.

2023-2025: PI of the International research project Glocal Perspectives on Iberian Studies. Phase 8: ‘TEbeoRAPIA’. Cómic y novela gráfica en la perspectiva del ODS3 Salud y bienestar.

2022-2024: PI of the International research project Glocal Perspectives on Iberian Studies. Phase 7: Literary Representations in the Plural and Multicltural Contemporary Hispanic Context.

2023: PI of the International research project CoWell – Comic nella prospettiva del SDG 3 Good Health and Well-Being, Grant For Internationalization.

2022- : Participation in the European Project ICON-MICS (CA19119 i-COn-MICs) Investigation on Comics and Graphic Novels from the Iberian Cultural Area, http://iconmics.hypotheses.org, COST Action – European Cooperation in Science and Technology.

2022- : Participation in the European Project ICON-HUMA Humanities and Knowledge. Las Humanidades como nexo de conocimiento.

2021-2023: PI of the International research project Glocal Perspectives on Iberian Studies. Phase 6: History, Art, Literature in/and Higher Education in Times of COVID-19 in the Paniberian Context.

2020-2022: PI of the International research project Glocal Perspectives on Iberian Studies. Phase 5: Historical Memory and Postmemory in the Pluricultural Peninsular Hispanic Context.

2020- : PI of the International research project COVID19 – LiTraPan. Literary Training via ICT for Higher Education Improvement, Behavioral Coaching and Discomfort Management during the Coronavirus Pandemic, co-dir. V. Martines (Universidad de Alicante) e A. Cortijo Ocaña (University of California Santa Barbara, CA, USA.

2019-2021: PI of the International research project Glocal Perspectives on Iberian Studies. Phase 4: Identity and Cultural Hybridization: The Paniberian Context.

2019- : Participation in the International research project Base de dados de obras pastorais e doutrinárias da Idade Média tardia, finanziato dalla Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, dir. L. Alves Teodoro, Universidade Estadual de Campinas – UNICAMP, Brasil.

2018-2020: PI of the International research project Glocal Perspectives on Iberian Studies. Phase 3: Nation, Language and Literature in the Castilian-Catalan-Galician-Basque Context.

2017-2019: PI of the International research project Glocal Perspectives on Iberian Studies. Phase 2: Representing Identity: Intersemioticy and Transmediality in Contemporary Hispanic Cultures.

2017-2019: Participation in the International research project La literatura de segundo grado: las relaciones hipertextuales en la literatura catalana desde el “Modernisme” hasta 1939, FFI2017-86542-P, Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, España, dir. C. Gregori Soldevila, Universidad de Valencia; personal research areae: the reception of the Spanish theatre in Catalonia.

2017: Beneficiary of the FFABR individual research fund (ANVUR, l. 232/2016).

2016-2018: Participation in the local research project Translations, rewritings, poetics of the theatrical text in Romance cultures, Unito.

2015-2017: PI of the International research project Glocal Perspectives on Iberian Studies. Phase 1: Contemporary Catalan Classics – Contemporary Catalans and Classics.

2015-2017: Participation in the local research project Miti, modelli e strutture nelle culture romanze, Unito.

2014- : Participation in the International Research Cluster ISIC-IVITRA, Instituto Superior de Investigación Cooperativa IVITRA, Universidad de Alicante.

2014- : Participation in the international research project RICABIM - Repertorio di Inventari e Cataloghi di Biblioteche Medievali, coord. SISMEL – Società Italiana per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino; individual research field: monitoring of the perusal of Spanish and Catalan documentation preserved in the Archive of Alghero.

2014-2016: Participation in the National Research Project Representations of Daily Life in the Mediterranean. The case of Spain (1973-2011), Unive.

2014-2016: Participation in the local research project Mille piani. Strutture rizomatiche comuni alle culture romanze, Unito.

2013-2015: Participation in the local research project Destini incrociati: intrecci e confluenze nelle culture romanze, Unito.

2012-2014: Participation in the local research project Rifrazioni letterarie nelle culture romanze, Unito.

2011-2013: Participation in the local research project L'Italia nelle scritture degli altri, Unito.

2008-2012: Participation in the research project PRIN 2008 Relazioni intertestuali fra Spagna e Italia. Riscritture e traduzioni, National PI G. Poggi, section Civil Commitment in Contemporary Spanish Theatre, coord. S. Monti, Univr.

Visiting Professorships:

2018.06: Càtedra Marià Villangómez, Universität Leipzig.

2014.10: Doctorado Internacional Transferencias Interculturales e Históricas en la Europa Medieval Mediterránea, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Alicante.

2011.01: SLIMM – Seminari de Literatura i Cultura Catalanes de l’Edat Mitjana i l’Edat Moderna, Doctorat d’Investigació en Filologia Catalana, Departament de Filologia Catalana, Universitat de Barcelona.

Awards:

2015: Menció de la Delegació del Govern de la Generalitat de Catalunya a Itàlia to the Rivista Italiana di Studi Catalani, for the dissemination and academic promotion of Catalan culture in Italy.

2011: Premi Internacional Ramon Llull at the AISC 2008-2011 Board, for the best International Association of Catalanistics.

2002: Premio “Città di Monselice per la Traduzione Letteraria” – Sezione “Leone Traverso”, for the book Sendebar. Il libro degli inganni delle donne, introductory study, critical edition, unedited Italian translation and notes by V. Orazi, Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso, 2001, 161 pp.

2000: Premi Crítica “Serra d’Or” de Catalanística, for the book “Història de la filla del rei d’Hungria” e altri racconti catalani tardomedievali, folkloric study, critical edition and notes by V. Orazi, Viareggio-Lucca, Mauro Baroni Editore, 1999, 167 pp.

Positions in Academic Societies and Associations:

2025-2028: Vicepresident of the AITS21 – Asociación Internacional de Teatro del Siglo XXI.

2018-2027: Member of the Board (2018-2024) then Vicepresident (2024-2027) of the AILLC – Associació Internacional de Llengua i Literatura Catalanes.

2013-2017: Member of the Board of the AISPI – Associazione Ispanisti Italiani Board.

2008-2015: Member of the Board (2008-2012) then President (2012-2025) of the AISC – Associazione Italiana di Studi Catalani.

Academic Teaching Activities:

Teaching activity performed within the framework of the Vecchio and Nuovo Ordinamento, for BA and MA degrees, PhD and Masters, in Italy and abroad, in the fields History of the Spanish Language (ex-L17C), Spanish Literature (SPAN-01/A), Spanish Language and Translation (SPAN-01/C), Catalan Language and Literature (SPAN-01/A, SPAN-01/C, FLMR-01/B) and Spanish and Catalan Philology (SPAN-01/A, FLMR-01/B) at the Universities in which he has taught or with which he has collaborated.

Supervisor of many degree's theses (Vecchio Ordinamento), BA dissertations and MA theses (Nuovo Ordinamento) and tutor or co-tutor of several doctoral theses in Spanish Literature, Spanish Language and Translation, Ibero-Romance Philology, History of the Spanish Language and Catalan Language and Literature, since the academic year 1999-2000, at the universities where she has taught or collaborated.

2024: Winner of the 2nd edition of the BIP - Blended Intensive Program financed under the Erasmus+ CALL 2024 KA131: Design, realisation, coordination and direction of the BIP Women and Identity. Artistic and Literary Representations in the Plural and Multicultural Contemporary Hispanic Context (realisation between March 2025 and July 2026, with handover to Prof. Anna Ciotta, Unito, following her taking up her post at Unive from 01.04.2025).

2022: Winner of the 1st edition of the BIP - Blended Intensive Program financed under the Erasmus+ CALL 2022 KA131: design, implementation, coordination and direction of the BIP Women and Identity. Artistic and Literary Representations in the Plural and Multicultural Contemporary Hispanic Context (2022-1-IT02-KA131-HED-000064955-4); offer of teaching activities shared among 12 universities from 7 European countries, with the participation of 30 lecturers and 25 international students (30 hours of distance learning and 20 hours of presential laboratory at United, for 9 cfu, period of performance May-July 2023). Within it, offering a lecture (2 hours) on Mujer y transición en el teatro actual: ‘Descarriadas’ (2018) de Laila Ripoll.

2012-2025: Contact person for Erasmus exchanges with the Universities of Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Valencia, Alicante and Amiens.

2015-2025: Contact person for Erasmus Traineeships with the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Biblioteca-Archivo del Pavelló de la República, Departament d'Història Contemporània, Universitat de Barcelona.

Congress Scientific Activity in the Academic field:

Since 1992, he has participated in almost 100 national and international seminars and conferences, with communications in Spanish Literature, Spanish Language and Translation, History of the Spanish Language, Catalan Literature, Ibero-Romance Philology.