Elisa Brilli

Elisa Brilli is an Professor in the Department of Italian Studies, and cross-appointed to the Centre for Medieval Studies, where she is also serving as Director (2022-2027).

She completed her Bachelor's degree at La Sapienza, Rome (2004) and her joint and Ph.D. at La Sapienza, Rome and at the Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (2009).

Professor Brilli's research focuses on Dante Studies, the interactions between history and literature, medieval exemplary literature, historiography and research methodologies. She is the author of Firenze e il Profeta, the chief editor of the Alphabetum Narrationum by Arnold of Liège, the co-editor of four volumes, and the author of several articles in academic journals and in books.

Brilli is Associate Member of the Laboratoire d’études sur les Monothéismes, EPHE-CNRS-Paris IV, the Kunsthistorisches Institut, MPG in Florence, AHLoMA, EHESS, and Fellow of Victoria University in the University of Toronto.

She works on the Editorial Board of Dante Studies, the Bibliographic Committee of the Dante Society of America, the Advisory Boards of Aevum, The Italianist, Quaderni d’Italianistica, Studi Danteschi, and the Rivista internazionale di ricerche dantesche.