Antonio RIGO

Antonio Rigo is Full Professor of Byzantine Philology and History of Byzantine Christianity at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Born in Treviso, after undergraduate university studies in Venice,  and a doctorate in Bologna and post-doctoral scholarships in Naples and Venice, he was appointed Full Professor of Byzantine History at the University of Basilicata (1994-2001) and, from 2001, at the Ca’ Foscari University . His research deal with the literature and religious history of the Byzantine and post-Byzantine periods, and in particular with the ascetic-spiritual texts, heretical and dissident movements and theological controversies of the 14th century.

Academic positions

- 1994-2001: Professor of Byzantine History, University of Basilicata

- since 2001: Professor of Byzantine Civilization, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

- since 2014: Member of the Teaching Committee of the PhD course “Dottorato in Studi Storici, Geografici e Antropologici”, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, University of Padua, University of Verona

- since 2012: Examiner for Apella (committee for election and promotion of professors), Hellenic Republic, Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs

- since 2014: Examiner for VQR (MIUR).

- since 2018 Expert of the Hellenic Quality Assurance and Accreditation Agency (HQA).

Other positions

- 2001-2002: Directeur d'études invité, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Ve Section – Sorbonne, Paris

- 2001-2005: Director of the Istituto «Venezia e l'Europa» - Fondazione Giorgio Cini (Venice)

- 2003-2004: Visiting professor, Pompeu Fabre University, Barcelona

- 2005-2006: Directeur d'études invité, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Ve Section – Sorbonne, Paris

- 2011-2012: Directeur d'études invité, École Pratique des Hautes Études, IVe Section – Sorbonne, Paris

- 2013-2014: Examiner for the “Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale”

- 2015-2016: Directeur d'études invité, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Research Grant

- 2011-2012: Alexander Onassis’ Research Grant - Category A

Award

- 2013: Research Prize, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Editorial boards

- Director of the journal

• «La Parola del passato» (Florence)

- Member of the editorial board of the journals

• «Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici» (Roma)

• «ΑΝΑΛΕΚΤΑ ΣΤΑΓΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΜΕΤΕΩΡΩΝ - ANALEKTA STAGORUM ET METEORUM» (Kalampaka)

• «Byzantine Review» (Münster)

• «Scrinium» (Saint Petersburg)

• «Parekbolai» (Athens - Thessaloniki)

• «Rivista di letteratura religiosa italiana» (Pisa - Roma)

- Member of the editorial board of the series

• «Corpus Christianorum. Series graeca» (Leuven – Turnhout)

• «Byzantios» (Turnhout)

• «Études byzantines et post-byzantines» (Bucarest - Heidelberg)

• «Fundamentis Novis. Studi di letteratura cristiana antica, mediolatina e bizantina» (Rome)

Scientific affiliations

- President of the Association Internationale des Études Byzantines (AIEB).

- Member of the Conseil scientifique, EPHE Ecole Pratique des hautes études, Paris

- Member of the scientific committee, Fondazione Collegio San Carlo, Modena

- Member of the UMR 8167 Orient & Méditerranée - Monde Byzantin, Paris

- Member of the board of Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe, Ceraneum, Lodz

- Referee of the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen, FWO, Belgium

- Member of the scientific committee of «Edizione nazionale delle traduzioni dei testi greci in età umanistica e rinascimentale» - «Il Ritorno dei classici nell'Umanesimo» (MIUR)

- Member of the board of Centro di ricerca coordinato «Bisanzio e l'Occidente», University of Milano

- President of the Italian Committee for Byzantine Studies of the Association Internationale des Études Byzantines - Associazione Italiana di Studi Bizantini (AISB) 2012-2022