Andrea Celli

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Italian and Mediterranean Studies

Research Interests:

– Italian and Mediterranean studies (13th-16th centuries)
– History of literary criticism
– History of ideas, with a focus on early-modern representations of Islam and twentieth century Islamic studies
– Intercultural studies and transcultural poetics

Andrea Celli graduated in “Letteratura moderna” at the Univerità di Padova (Italy), where he also received his PhD Degree in “Filologia italiana ed Ermeneutica” (2004).

In 2012-2013 he spent one year as a visiting fellow at the School of Advanced Study (Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies – University of London). From 2007 to 2014 he lectured “Ermeneutica e Storia della Critica” at the MA in “Lingua, letteratura e civiltà italiana” (University of Lugano, Switzerland).

He has published several monographs, essays, and chapters, and translated a number of works from French and Arabic authors (e.g. Louis Massignon and Adonis). His current projects include a study on re-readings of the narratives of Hagar and Ishmael in counter-Reformation discourses on Islam; a monograph on Islam in early-modern Mediterranean Europe, and an Italian translation of Ernst Kantorowicz’s Das Wesen der muslimischen Handwerkerverbaende.