VENERDI 16:00-17:00 (ufficio di via Pergola 60, secondo piano, area FORLILPSI)

Dal 1 Settembre 2022 sono Ricercatore Senior (RTD B) di Lingua e Letteratura del Giappone presso il Dipartimento FORLILPSI dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze.

Mi laureo nel 2004 presso la Facoltà di Studi Orientali di "Sapienza" Università di Roma (Letteratura Giapponese Moderna e Contemporanea). Negli anni 2002-2003 e 2005-2009 svolgo periodi di studio e ricerca in Giappone, presso la Kyoto University e la Waseda University (Studente Borsista MEXT). Nel 2013 ottengo il PhD in Letteratura Giapponese presso l'Istituto Italiano di Studi Orientali ("Sapienza" Università di Roma).  Negli anni 2012-2016 insegno Lingua e Cultura del Giappone presso DISUCOM (Università degli Studi della Tuscia) e nell'anno accademico 2018-2019 insegno Lingua giapponese presso l'Università di Milano e l'Università degli Studi di Torino. Dall'anno accademico 2018-2019 insegno Lingua giapponese presso l'Università degli Studi di Firenze (FORLILPSI), sia per la Laurea Triennale (L-11) sia per il Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Lingue e Civiltà dell'Oriente Antico e Moderno (LM-36).

I miei interessi di ricerca vanno dalla Demonologia giapponese alla Letteratura fantastica moderna e contemporanea. In particolare ho condotto studi sui bestiari (yōkai zukan) del periodo Tokugawa e ricerche sulla produzione fantastica e mystery di Kuroiwa Ruikō, Uchida Hyakken, Edogawa Ranpo, Murakami Haruki, Kyōgoku Natsuhiko. Al mio attivo ho un'antologia sulla figura del gatto nella letteratura giapponese moderna e contemporanea (Casadeilibri, 2015) e una monografia sulla letteratura fantastica giapponese (Gangemi, 2019).

Dall'anno accademico 2018-2019 faccio parte del progetto internazionale RISE BE-ARCHEO (BeArchaeo [https://www.bearchaeo.com/be-archaeo-project], finanziato dallo European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation staff exchange programme come Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (grant agreement No. 823826). Attraverso un approccio interdisciplinare che abbraccia discipline scientifiche e umanistiche, scopo del progetto è lo studio dei kofun, i tumuli sepolcrali realizzati in Giappone tra il terzo e il sesto secolo, e il loro rapporto con la storia culturale del paese.

Nel mese di luglio del 2020, ottengo l'Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale ASN alle funzioni di professore universitario di seconda fascia per il settore concorsuale 10/N3 (SSD L-OR/22) Bando 2018 (DD. N. 2175 del 9/08/2018), sessione 4.

Dal 15 Settembre 2023 sono Consigliere del direttivo dell'Associazione Italiana per gli Studi Giapponesi (AISTUGIA https://www.aistugia.it/index.php).

Dall'anno accademico 2023/24 sono delegato dei Ricercatori a tempo determinato (Rtd) del Dipartimento FORLILPSI.

Dal 2023 sono Visiting Lecturer presso i seguenti atenei giapponesi: Daito Bunka University; Kansai University 

Dal marzo 2024, sono Visiting Researcher of Art Research Center (ARC) of Ritsumeikan University (http://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/e/members/). Sono anche Project Leader di un international joint research with research found (international open theme) dal titolo “Connecting Epicenters, Relating Maps in and of the Japanese Christian Century” (https://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/e/ijac/theme2024.html).

Dichiarazione sostitutiva di certificazione  e dichiarazione sostitutiva dell’atto di notorietà ai sensi del D.P.R. 445/28.12.2000

Il sottoscritto __DIEGO CUCINELLI___ consapevole delle responsabilità penali cui può andare incontro, in caso di dichiarazioni mendaci, ai sensi e per gli effetti di cui all’art. 76 del D.P.R. 445/2000 e consapevole che, ai sensi dell’art. 15, comma 1, lett. C) del D.Lgs 33/2013, la presente dichiarazione sarà pubblicata sul sito web dell’amministrazione in apposita sezione di Amministrazione Trasparente, sotto la propria responsabilità

dichiara

ai sensi degli artt. 46 e 47 del DPR 445/2000

ALTRE ESPERIENZE PROFESSIONALI

ABILITAZIONE SCIENTIFICA NAZIONALE (ASN)

Capacità e competenze linguistiche

ATTIVITÀ DI RICERCA

PARTECIPAZIONE A PROGETTI DI RICERCA INTERNAZIONALI

Partecipazioni a Conferenze, Congressi, Simposi e Workshop

19/10/2023 Intervento su invito alla conferenza internazionale “Nihon gengobunkagaku kenkyūhan”; titolo intervento: “Uchida Hyakken no gensō bungaku”. Intervengono Luciana Cardi e Takahashi Miho (Kansai University), Ikuko Sagiyama (Unifi). A cura di TAKAHASHI Miho (Kansai University). Kansai University (Osaka, JP)

14/10/2023 Intervento su invito alla conferenza internazionale “Minato no kai”; titolo intervento: “Edogawa Ranpo ‘Hakuhatsuki ni tsuite”. Intervengono SUZUKI Sadami, KURANAKA Shinobu (Daito Bunka University), SASAKI Raita (Jinan University), AIDA Mitsuru (Kokubunken). A cura di KURANAKA Shinobu (Daito Bunka University). Daito University (Tokyo, JP)

26/09/2023 Intervento su invito al convegno internazionale “Seisei no shosō. Tōzai hikaku no kokoromi - Dimensioni del sacro tra Oriente e Occidente; titolo intervento: “La figura del ‘gigante’ tra Giappone e Italia”; FORLILPSI (Unifi). Organizzazione dip. Lettere della Tokyo University, SAGAS FORLILPSI DILEF (Unifi). 

14-16/09/2023 Con Ikuko Sagiyama, organizza il convegno annuale dell’Associazione Italiana per gli Studi Giapponesi (AISTUGIA); Biblioteca DELLE OBLATE (Firenze)

28/08/2023 Evento: “The world of yōkai - Toyo University meets University of Florence”(curano e introducono Diego Cucinelli e Ikuko Sagiyama); FORLILPSI (Unifi)

13/06/2023 Conferenza su invito dal titolo: “Dalla carta ai videogiochi: il lungo viaggio dei mostri del folklore giapponese”; Biblioteca Comunale A.CARRARA (Altopascio)

9/05/2023 Evento: “Letteratura distopica e immaginario sinoitaliano sulla Cina”, Alessandro Zhu e Andrea Marcelloni dialogano con Valentina Pedone e Diego Cucinelli; Biblioteca LAURENZIANA (Firenze)

2/05/2023 Evento: “L’eco della valle”, Anna Maria Shinnyo Marradi dialoga con Diego Cucinelli; Caffe Letterario “Il Conventino” (Firenze)

27/06/2023 Evento interdipartimentale: “Incontro con il regista Watanabe Hirobumi. Cinema indipendente dal Giappone più profondo” (a cura di Diego Cucinelli, Ikuko Sagiyama [FORLILPSI] e Andrea I. Volpe [DIDA]); FORLILPSI (Unifi)

25/04/2023 Open Day CENTRO ZEN FIRENZE SHINNYOJI (a cura di Diego Cucinelli e Anna Maria Shinnyo Marradi); Centro Zen Firenze “Shinnyoji”

19/04/2023 Conferenza su invito: “Quel che resta dopo. La letteratura ecologica post-apocalittica e il caso di Fukushima” all’interno del seminario Estetica, Ecologia, Biodiversità a cura di M.G. Portera; DILEF (Unifi)

31/03/2023 Conferenza: “Quale donna nella cultura e letteratura giapponese?” (a cura di Diego Cucinelli e Giuliana Mazzoni [Uniroma1]); SpazioGADA (Firenze) 

24/02/2023 Conferenza su invito “Presentazione del libro Spigolature nei campi di Buddha (1897) di Lafcadio Hearn” (Diego Cucinelli dialoga con Alessandro Giarda); evento online

23/02/2023 Conferenza del prof. Massimiliano TOMASI (Western Washington University) (curano e introducono Diego Cucinelli e Ikuko Sagiyama): “”Il cattolicesimo di Endō Shūsaku e il contesto letterario del Giappone del Novecento”; Università di Firenze

24/11/2022 Conferenza del prof. Massimiliano TOMASI (Western Washington University) (cura e introduce Diego Cucinelli): “”Il cristianesimo di Dazai Osamu”; Università di Firenze

03/02/2022 Relatore su invito alla conferenza LOST IN TRASLATION (evento patrocinato dall’Università di Padova e dall’Associazione Gesshin dell’ Univ. Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, organizzazione: Scuola Martin Eden)

03/06/2022 Su invito del Dipartimento STUDIUM dell’Università di Torino e del MAO di Torino, relatore su invito al ciclo di conferenze “Spiriti, demoni e soprannaturale nella cultura giapponese”; relazione dal titolo “Storie di un tempo che fu: le creature soprannaturali del Giappone antico” 

28/03/2022 Relatore su invito al webinar “A spasso con gli yōkai: passato e presente dei mostri giapponesi”  (evento patrocinato e organizzato da Fondazione Italia Giappone)

03/02/2022 Relatore su invito al webinar “IMPRONTE FELINE - gatti del Sol Levante”  (evento patrocinato e organizzato da Fondazione Italia Giappone)

22/01/2022 Ciclo di lecture dal titolo “Il difficile percorso verso L'eros: casi di Adolescenti nella letteratura Giapponese Moderna” presso il Corso Master di secondo livello in “Educazione affettiva, estetica ed emozionale e Criminologia interventistica per Sindromi pedofile e Sex-offenders” (ref. Prof. Matteo VILLANOVA - Univ. Roma Tre)

26/10/2021 Relazione dal titolo: “Edogawa Ranpo no ‘Hakuhatsuki’: futatsu no sekai o tsumugu fukushū”; convegno online “Transboundary Approaches to Croos-Cultural Viewpoints from Italy, UK and Japan”, organizzato da Kansai University ‘Tōzai Gakujutsu Kenkyūsho’ 

18/05/2021 Chair e Organizzatore (insieme ad Andrea Scibetta) della “Sesta giornata di studi FLORIENTALIA” (webinar; Università degli Studi di Firenze) 

12/05/2021 Lectio Magistralis: “Itaria de Nihon no bungei sakuhin o hon’yaku suru - Edogawa Ranpo no “Hakuhatsuki” o chūshin ni”; workshop online “Giornata di scambio tra la Shōwa Joshi Daigaku di Tokyo e l’Università di Firenze

04/12/2020 Ciclo di lecture dal titolo “Il difficile percorso verso L'eros: casi di Adolescenti nella letteratura Giapponese Moderna” presso il Corso Master di secondo livello in “Educazione affettiva, estetica ed emozionale e Criminologia interventistica per Sindromi pedofile e Sex-offenders” (ref. Prof. M. VILLANOVA - Univ. Roma Tre)

28/11/2020 Relazione dal titolo: “Uchida Hyakken no gensōbungaku”; webinar “Annuale Giornata di studi del Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature della Okayama University” (ospite su invito)

29/11/2019 Ciclo di lecture dal titolo “Il difficile percorso verso L'eros: casi di Adolescenti nella letteratura Giapponese Moderna” presso il Corso Master di secondo livello in “Educazione affettiva, estetica ed emozionale e Criminologia interventistica per Sindromi pedofile e Sex-offenders” (ref. Prof. M. VILLANOVA - Univ. Roma Tre)

28/09/2019 Relazione dal titolo “Una luce che fende il buio: la letteratura fantastica di Uchida Hyakken (1889-1971)”; XLIII Convegno annuale della Associazione Italiana di Studi Giapponesi [AISTUGIA] Università degli Studi di Napoli l’Orientale (Napoli)

20/05/2019 Relazione dal titolo: “Da Urashimatarō a Gamera: le tartarughe in Giappone tra arte, cinema e letteratura” (Giornata internazionale di studi FLORIENTALIA; Università degli Studi di Firenze)

30/11/2018 Ciclo di lecture dal titolo “Il difficile percorso verso L'eros: casi di Adolescenti nella letteratura Giapponese Moderna” presso il Corso Master di secondo livello in “Educazione affettiva, estetica ed emozionale e Criminologia interventistica per Sindromi pedofile e Sex-offenders” (ref. Prof. M. VILLANOVA - Univ. Roma Tre)

30/11/2017 Ciclo di lecture dal titolo “Il difficile percorso verso L'eros: casi di Adolescenti nella letteratura Giapponese Moderna” presso il Corso Master di secondo livello in “Educazione affettiva, estetica ed emozionale e Criminologia interventistica per Sindromi pedofile e Sex-offenders” (ref. Prof. M. VILLANOVA - Univ. Roma Tre)

25/11/2016 Ciclo di lecture dal titolo “Il difficile percorso verso L'eros: casi di Adolescenti nella letteratura Giapponese Moderna” presso il Corso Master di secondo livello in “Educazione affettiva, estetica ed emozionale e Criminologia interventistica per Sindromi pedofile e Sex-offenders” (ref. Prof. M. VILLANOVA - Univ. Roma Tre)

27/11/2015 Ciclo di lecture dal titolo “Il difficile percorso verso L'eros: casi di Adolescenti nella letteratura Giapponese Moderna” presso il Corso Master di secondo livello in “Educazione affettiva, estetica ed emozionale e Criminologia interventistica per Sindromi pedofile e Sex-offenders” (ref. Prof. M. VILLANOVA - Univ. Roma Tre)

30/11/2014 Ciclo di lecture dal titolo “Il difficile percorso verso L'eros: casi di Adolescenti nella letteratura Giapponese Moderna” presso il Corso Master di secondo livello in “Educazione affettiva, estetica ed emozionale e Criminologia interventistica per Sindromi pedofile e Sex-offenders” (ref. Prof. M. VILLANOVA - Univ. Roma Tre)

11/10/2014 Relazione dal titolo: “The Fortune of  Hyaku Monogatari in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature” 

23rd Annual Association of Japanese Literary Studies [AJLS] Western Washington UniversityWashington, USA

20/10/2014 Relazione dal titolo: “Una riscrittura oltre il secondo grado: Il demone dai capelli bianchi (1932) di Edogawa Ranpo” XXXVIII Convegno annuale della Associazione Italiana di Studi Giapponesi [AISTUGIA] Università del Salento (Lecce)

29/08/2014 Relazione dal titolo: “Uchida Hyakken's ʻcat literature” 14^th Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies [EAJS] Ljubljana University (Slovenia)

9/05/2014 Relazione dal titolo: “The importance of pre-Meiji Japanese Literature in Murakami Haruki's poetic” 

III International Symposium for Asian Languagese and Literatures [ADES] Erciyes University (Turchia)

18/03/2014 Relazione dal titolo “Ghosts From The Past: The Fortune Of Hyaku Monogatari Kaidankai In Post-Meiji Japanese Literature” 4th Global Conference: Spirituality in the 21^st Century: At the Interface of Theory, Praxis & Pedagogy 

Continental Hotel, Praga (Repubblica Ceca)

1-3/03/2014 Relazione dal titolo “Murakami Haruki's literature, an endless dichotomy between cat and mouse”

International Symposium on Japanese Studies “Tradition, Modernity, and Globalization in Japan”

Center for Japanese Studies - University of Bucharest (Romania)

12/12/2013 Relazione dal titolo “Corpi femminili sovrannaturali nel Giappone contemporaneo: il caso della ubume, la 'partoriente fantasma', di Kyōgoku Natsuhiko” Convegno di Teoria e storia comparata della letteratura [COMPALIT] 

Università degli studi di Parma (Parma)

16/11/2013 Relazione dal titolo “Dal nome al topos: problemi di onomastica nella poetica di Murakami Haruki” 

XV Congresso dell'Associazione Onomastica&Letteratura [O&L] Dipartimento di Lettere, Università di Pisa (Pisa)

10/11/2013 Relazione dal titolo “Da Kobe a Tokyo, dal vecchio al nuovo continente: il lungo percorso di Murakami Haruki” 

“Sotto il Sol Levante – Omaggio al Giappone” (iniziativa a cura della Fondazione Italia Giappone) Biblioteca Comunale (Ladispoli)

20/09/2013 Relazione dal titolo “Palinsesti letterari nel romanzo contemporaneo giapponese: la letteratura al secondo grado di Kyōgoku Natsuhiko” XXXVII Convegno  annuale della Associazione Italiana di Studi Giapponesi [AISTUGIA]

Istituto Giapponese di Cultura (Roma)

27-28/03/2012 Ciclo di conferenze e workshop a cura dell’Associazione Italiana Didattica della Lingua Giapponese [auditore] Istituto Giapponese di Cultura /Dipartimento IISO, “Sapienza” Università di Roma (Roma)

22/03/2013 Relazione dal titolo "La didattica della lingua giapponese nelle scuole superiori dell'Italia Centrale" 

IV Convegno della Associazione Italiana per la Didattica della Lingua Giapponese [AIDLG]

Università degli Studi di Napoli “L'Orientale” (Napoli)

13/02/2012 Corso di aggiornamento per docenti di lingua giapponese “Utilizzo di Google Sites nella didattica della lingua giapponese” (a cura del Dott. Shunko Muroya) [auditore] Istituto Giapponese di Cultura (Roma)

05/02/2013 Conferenza dal titolo “Quando i sogni diventano realtà: ritratti femminili dal folklore al romanzo contemporaneo giapponese” Club Montevecchio (Roma)

27/06/2012 Lectio Magistralis per il corso di Dottorato in “Civiltà, culture e società dell'Asia e dell'Africa" dal titolo “Applicazioni della yokaigaku nel romanzo giapponese contemporaneo: il caso di Kyogoku Natsuhiko” 

Dipartimento IISO, “Sapienza” Università di Roma (Roma)

07/06/2012 Conferenza dal titolo “Quando i sogni diventano realtà: ritratti femminili dal folklore al romanzo contemporaneo giapponese” Centro Culturale “Doozo” (Roma)

14/12/2011 Conferenza dal titolo “Il monaco del monte Koya e il fantastico di Izumi Kyôka” Centro Culturale “Doozo” (Roma)

17/06/2011 Conferenza dal titolo “La belva nell’ombra: il noir di Edogawa Ranpo” Centro Culturale “Doozo” (Roma)

14-28/04/2011 Ciclo di conferenze dal titolo “Mostri, spettri e demoni del Giappone”  Istituto Giapponese di Cultura (Roma)

02/04/2011 Conferenza dal titolo “Gli origami e l’estetica giapponese tra luce ed ombra” 

Libreria Mondadori (Roma) [evento patrocinato da Fondazione Italia-Giappone]

25-26/03/2011 Ciclo di conferenze e workshop a cura dell’Associazione Italiana Didattica della Lingua Giapponese [AIDLG] [auditore] Dipartimento IISO, “Sapienza” Università di Roma (Roma)

29-30/10/2010 Relazione dal titolo “Il cinema giapponese come strumento di glottodidattica in autoapprendimento”

Congresso internazionale “Invito al cinema giapponese” Facoltà di Studi Orientali, “Sapienza” Università di Roma (Roma)

27/10/2010 Corso di aggiornamento per docenti di lingua giapponese “Applicazioni di Power Point nella didattica della lingua giapponese” [auditore] Istituto Giapponese di Cultura (Roma) 

1-15/10/2010 Ciclo di conferenze dal titolo “Kafka sulla spiaggia: il fantastico nella poetica di Murakami Haruki”

Centro Culturale “Doozo” (Roma)

04/06/2010 Convegno internazionale per la didattica della lingua giapponese “Nihon-JP” a cura del Prof. T. Takeshita [auditore] Cliro (Cesena)

30/06/2010  Lecture dal titolo “Percorsi di letteratura omoerotica: il caso giapponese”

Conferenza “Omosessualità nel Sol Levante” Centro Culturale “Doozo” (Roma)

26-27/03/2010 Ciclo di conferenze e workshop a cura dell’Associazione Italiana Didattica della Lingua Giapponese  [auditore] Facoltà di Studi Orientali, “Sapienza” Università di Roma (Roma)

19-20/03/2010  Lecture dal titolo “Visioni di Kyoto tra diaristica e reportage“

Ciclo di presentazioni del volume “L’anima nascosta del Giappone” a cura di M. Croce; Libreria Mondadori / Doozo Culture Centre (Roma)

29/03/2008 Relazione dal titolo “Considerazioni sul valore semantico della locuzione avverbiale disgiuntiva kuse ni” 

Convegno MANABU Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Tokyo)

Direzione o partecipazione a comitati editoriali di riviste, collane editoriali, enciclopedie e trattati di riconosciuto prestigio

Direttore della collana PORTE DEI SOGNI della casa editrice CASADEILIBRI

dal 01-09-2019 a oggi

Curatore e partecipante al comitato editoriale della linea di Letteratura Giapponese di Gangemi Editore (casa editrice iscritta a MIUR ANVUR-CINECA)

dal 01-11-2019 a oggi

Curatore della linea di Letteratura Giapponese per la collana di Letteratura Internazionale edita dal marchio Elliot

dal 01-10-2019 a oggi

Insieme ad Andrea Scibetta, è curatore del settimo volume della collana “Florientalia Asian Studies” dal titolo: Tracing Pathways 雲路 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern and Contemporary East Asia (Firenze University Press, 2021)

Insieme a Miriam Castorina, è curatore dell’ottavo volume della collana “Florientalia Asian Studies” dal titolo: Food Issues 食事 Interdisciplinary Studies on ‘Food’ in Modern and Contemporary East Asia (Firenze University Press, 2022)

Formale attribuzione di incarichi di insegnamento o di ricerca (fellowship) 

Monbukagakushō scholarship. Borsa annuale del MEXT (Ministero Giapponese dell'Istruzione,

Cultura, Sport, Scienza e Tecnologia) presso la Kyōto University (Giappone)

dal 01-10-2002 al 30-09-2003

Monbukagakushō scholarship. Borsa biennale del MEXT (Ministero Giapponese dell'Istruzione,

Cultura, Sport, Scienza e Tecnologia) presso la Waseda University (Giappone)

dal 01-04-2005 al 31-03-2007

Monbukagakushō scholarship. ESTENSIONE come Borsa Master of Arts della Borsa biennale

del MEXT (Ministero Giapponese dell'Istruzione, Cultura, Sport, Scienza e Tecnologia) presso la

Waseda University (Giappone)

dal 01-04-2007 al 31-03-2009

Dottorato di ricerca (con borsa di studio MIUR) XXV ciclo in Civiltà, culture e società dell'Asia e

dell'Africa (settore L-OR/22) presso Sapienza Università di Roma.

Titolo tesi: Yōkai a confronto: l'eredità culturale del Giappone antico nella poetica di Murakami

Haruki (1949-) e Kyōgoku Natsuhiko (1963-) [discussa il 22 Aprile 2013]

dal 01-10-2009 al 30-09-2012

Soggiorno di ricerca bibliografica sul tema "Il Nihon Ryōiki" presso la Biblioteca della Waseda

University (Tokyo, Giappone)

dal 07-01-2010 al 24-01-2010

Affidamento del corso di Cultura Giapponese - Modulo "Mostri, spettri e demoni del Giappone";

da Japan Foundation (Istituto di Cultura Giapponese di Roma)

dal 14-04-2011 al 28-04-2011

Su invito della School of Humanities and Social Sciences della Okayama University (Giappone),

nel febbraio/marzo 2019 svolge un periodo di ricerca presso la stessa per partecipare alle attività

legate al progetto Be-Archeo (Kick-Off, simposio e riunioni di progettazione del lavoro di ricerca); 

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (grant agreement No. 823826) 

dal 16-02-2019 al 02-03-2019

Roma,  03/11/2023

LETTERATURA GIAPPONESE MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEA, LETTERATURA FANTASTICA GIAPPONESE, LETTERATURA COMPARATA, ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURALE DEL GIAPPONE, DEMONOLOGIA GIAPPONESE

Diego CUCINELLI 

(Rome; 26/04/1980)

As of September 1, 2022, I am a Senior Researcher (Rtd B) of Japanese Language and Literature (FORLILPSI Department, University of Florence) (https://www.unifi.it/p-doc2-2022-0-A-2d2a372a3b2d-0.html).

I graduated in 2004 from the Faculty of Oriental Studies of "Sapienza" University of Rome (majored in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature). I spent periods of study and research in Japan as MEXT Research Fellow at Kyoto University (2002-2003) and Waseda University (2005-2009). In 2013 I defended and obtained my PhD in Japanese Literature at the Italian Institute of Oriental Studies of "Sapienza" University of Rome. 

As lecturer, I taught Language and Culture of Japan at University of Tuscia (2012-16), University of Milan (2018-19), University of Turin (2018-19) and at the University of Florence (2018-22), both for the Bachelor degree and the Master degree courses.

My research interests range from Japanese demonology (yōkaigaku) to modern and contemporary fantastic literature (gensō bungaku). I have conducted studies on the bestiaries (yōkai zukan) of the Tokugawa period and researches on the fantastic and mystery production of Kuroiwa Ruikō, Uchida Hyakken, Edogawa Ranpo, Murakami Haruki, and Kyōgoku Natsuhiko. I published an anthology on the figure of the cat in modern and contemporary Japanese literature (Casadeilibri, 2015), a monograph on Japanese fantastic literature (Gangemi, 2019), and an anthology of fantastic stories and anecdotes (setsuwa) of Heian and Kamakura period (AsiaSphere, 2022). As translator, I edited the Italian translation of several novels by Edogawa Ranpo, Umezaki Haruo, and Miyamoto Yuriko.

Since 2018, I have been part of the international RISE project BE-ARCHEO (BeArchaeo [https://www.bearchaeo.com/be-archaeo-project], funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation staff exchange program as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (grant agreement No. 823826). Through an interdisciplinary approach spanning scientific and humanities disciplines, the aim of the project is to study kofun, the burial mounds made in Japan between the third and sixth centuries, and their relationship to the country's cultural history.

In July 2020, I obtained the ASN National Scientific Qualification to the functions of Associated Professor for the sector 10/N3 (SSD L-OR/22) Announcement 2018 (DD. No. 2175 of 9/08/2018), session 4.

Since November 2022, I am editor in chief of the academic series FLORIENTALIA – East Asian Studies Series, published by Firenze University Press (https://books.fupress.com/scientific-board/florientalia-east-asian-studies-series/53).

Since September 2023, I am Board Member of the Italian Association for Japanese Studies (AISTUGIA https://www.aistugia.it/index.php).

Since 2024, I am Visiting Researcher of Art Research Center (ARC) of Ritsumeikan University (http://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/e/members/). I am Project Leader of the international joint research with research found (international open theme) “Connecting Epicenters, Relating Maps in and of the Japanese Christian Century” (https://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/e/ijac/theme2024.html).

curriculum vitae
DIEGO CUCINELLI

Declaration in lieu of certification and declaration in lieu of affidavit pursuant to Presidential Decree 445/28.12.2000

The undersigned __DIEGO CUCINELLI___ aware of the criminal liability to which he/she may be subjected, in the event of false statements, pursuant to and for the purposes of Article 76 of Presidential Decree 445/2000 and aware that, pursuant to Article 15, paragraph 1, letter C) of Legislative Decree 33/2013, this statement will be published on the administration's website in the appropriate section of Transparent Administration, under his/her own responsibility
declares
Pursuant to articles 46 and 47 of Presidential Decree 445/2000

Teaching experience

- 1/09/2020~

Senior Researcher (Rtd B) SSD L-OR/22

- Name and address of employer.

University of Florence - School of Humanistic Studies - FORLILPSI Department
- Type of business or sector.

Higher Education
- Type of employment.

Lecturing; Thesis Correlations; Proficiency Examinations
- Main duties and responsibilities

Lecturing Japanese Language 2 (30h of annual teaching; L11)
Lecturer Japanese Literature (36h of annual teaching; L11)
Lecturer Japanese Language and Literature (30h didactics annually; LM36)

- 18/08/2020-15/08/2022

Adjunct Professor of Japanese Language 2 (L11)

- Name and address of employer.

University of Florence - School of Humanities - FORLILPSI Department
- Type of business or sector

Higher Education
- Type of employment.

Lecturing; Thesis Correlations; Proficiency Examinations.
- Main duties and responsibilities

Lecturing Japanese language lv.A1/A2 (30h of annual teaching)

- 10/2018--15/08/2022

Adjunct Professor of Japanese Language Knowledge (LM36)

- Name and address of employer

University of Florence - School of Humanities - FORLILPSI Department
- Type of business or sector

Higher Education
- Type of employment.

Lecturing; Graduate Thesis Report and Correlation; Proficiency examinations
- Main duties and responsibilities

Lecturer of Japanese language lv. B1 (60h of annual teaching);
Supervisor of three dissertations

- 10/2018-08/2020

Adjunct Professor of Japanese Language Laboratory (L11)

- Name and address of employer.

University of Florence - School of Humanities - FORLILPSI Department
- Type of business or sector

Higher Education
- Type of employment.

Lecturing; Thesis Correlations; Proficiency Examinations
- Main duties and responsibilities

Lecturer of Japanese language lv.A1/A2 (30h of annual teaching);
Supervisor of six dissertations and Correlator of ten dissertations

- 09/2018-02/2019

Adjunct Professor of Japanese Language1 and 2 (L12)

- Name and address of employer.

University of Milan - Department of Language Mediation Sciences and Intercultural Studies
- Type of business or sector

Higher Education
- Type of employment.

Lecturing; Proficiency exams
- Main duties and responsibilities

Japanese language teaching lv.A1 and A2 (20h of annual teaching x 2modules)

- 08/2018-08/2019

Adjunct Professor
of Japanese Language (LM38)

- Name and address of employer.

University of Turin, Italy - Department of Humanities (STUDIUM) - Master's Degree Course in Asian and African Languages for Communication and International Cooperation
- Type of business or sector

Higher Education
- Type of employment.

Lecturing; Proficiency exams
- Main duties and responsibilities

Lecturing Japanese language lv.B2 (36h of annual teaching)

- 2014~

Lecturer at the Second Level Master Course in "Affective, Aesthetic and Emotional Education and Interventional Criminology for Pedophile Syndromes and Sex-offenders" (ref. Prof. M. VILLANOVA - Univ. Roma Tre)

- Name and address of employer

University of Roma3 - Faculty of Education
- Type of business or sector

Higher Education
- Type of employment

Lecturer Second Level Master's course - Cycle of lectures entitled "The Difficult Path to Eros: Cases of Adolescents in Modern Japanese Literature"
- Main duties and responsibilities

Lecturer Japanese Culture (4h of frontal teaching per year x 7years)

- 2012-2016

Adjunct Professor of.
Language and Culture of Japan (L10)

- Name and address of employer

University of Tuscia - DISUCOM Department - Bachelor of Arts in Humanities (L-10)
- Type of business or sector

Higher Education

- Type of Employment.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

- 01//2019 to present

Subject Matter Expert

- Name and address of employer

University of Turin - STUDIUM Department
- Type of business or sector

Higher education
- Type of employment

Assistance to tenured faculty member for exams and teaching
- Main duties and responsibilities

Subject Tutor "Japanese Language and Literature" (applicant: prof. Matteo CESTARI)

- 01/02/2019 to present

Translator and interpreter

- Name and address of employer

University of Turin
- Type of business or sector.

Higher education - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action; grant agreement No. 823826
- Type of employment.

TRANSLATOR AND INTERPRETER
- Main duties and responsibilities.

On behalf of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Turin, TRANSLATOR AND INTERPRETER for the international research team of the BEYOND-ARCHAEOLOGY project (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action; grant agreement No. 823826).
Throughout, Diego Cucinelli translates research material from Japanese into Italian (specialized articles related to chemistry and archaeometry). During missions at Okayama University (Okayama, Japan), he does interpreting to and from Japanese at meetings, fieldwork, and laboratory activities; he also takes care of Japanese translations of slides related to papers presented by the University of Turin team.

- 02/

Lecturing; Thesis Correlations; Proficiency Examinations
- Main duties and responsibilities

Lecturing Language and Literature of Japan lv. A1/A2 (60h face-to-face teaching per year x 4years)

- 2011-2015
Teaching Director

- Name and address of employer

Italy Japan Foundation
- Type of business or sector

Japanese culture dissemination
- Type of employment.

Educational direction and organization of language courses; Japanese language teaching
- Main duties and responsibilities

Teaching direction of Japanese language and culture courses (various levels, from A1 to C1); tot. annual amount of teaching hours: 50 hours of frontal teaching x 5years

- 2011
Lecturer of Japanese Culture

- Name and address of employer.

Japanese Cultural Institute of Rome (THE JAPAN FOUNDATION)
- Type of business or sector

Culture
- Type of employment

Japanese Culture Lecturer
- Main duties and responsibilities

Lecturer of the course "YOKAI: MONSTERS OF JAPAN" (6h of frontal teaching)

- 2010

Tutor for teaching
Japanese Language and Literature

- Name and address of employer.

University of Rome "Sapienza" - Faculty of Oriental Studies
- Type of business or sector

Higher Education
- Type of employment

Teaching and tutoring
- Main duties and responsibilities

Lecturing in the language and culture of Japan for students pertaining to the V.O. (Year III and IV, lv. B1/B2) and tutoring

- 02/12/2018

Assisting with the Japanese Language Proficiency Test 2018 exam.

- Name and address of employer.

University of Milan - Department of Language Mediation Sciences and Intercultural Studies
- Type of business or sector

Higher education
- Type of employment

Assistant supervisor
- Main duties and responsibilities

Examination assistance

- 2014-2020

TV&CM Coordinator/Interpreter
specialized for Japanese media

- Name and address of employer

Freelance
- Type of business or industry

Freelance
- Type of employment

Japanese Media Coordination
- Main duties and responsibilities

Coordination/Interpreting

- 2009

Local Administrative Clerk

- Name and address of employer.

Embassy of Japan (Rome)
- Type of business or sector

Embassy
- Type of employment

Administration
- Main duties and responsibilities

Clerk Real Estate&Auto sector

- 2005-2009

Lecturer a of Italian Language and Culture

- Name and address of employer

Italian Cultural Institute (Tokyo)
- Type of business or sector

Education
- Type of employment

Lecturer
- Main duties and responsibilities

Lecturer in Italian language and culture

NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC QUALIFICATION (ASN)

Call for applications 2018 (DD. No. 2175 of 9/08/2018), session 4

ASN National Scientific Habilitation to the functions of university professor of second rank for the concurrency sector 10/N3 (SSD L-OR/22) Validity From 10/07/2020 to 10/07/2029; 2018-2021 round; fourth quarter

Education and training

- 2013

TFA course

- Name and type of education or training institution

University for Foreigners of Siena
- Main subjects/occupational skills object of study

Didactics of the language and culture of Japan
- Qualification awarded

Habilitation Teaching Japanese Language and Culture in High Schools (Class AJ24)

- 2009-2012

Ph.D. in Asian and African Civilizations, Cultures and Societies.
SSD (L-OR/22)

- Name and type of institution of education or training

University of Rome "Sapienza", ISO Department
- Main subjects/occupational skills object of study

Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature
Title of thesis: Yōkai compared: the cultural heritage of ancient Japan in the poetics of Murakami Haruki (1949-) and Kyōgoku Natsuhiko (1963-)
- Qualification attained

Ph.D. (thesis discussed in April 2013)

- September 2010

Educational trip to India
(by Prof. D. Rossi)

- Name and type of education or training institution

University of Rome "Sapienza", ISO Department
- Main subjects of study

History of Buddhism
- Qualification obtained

- 2007-2009

Master's Degree in MODERN LITERATURE (MEXT Fellowship) (two-year fellowship extension)

- Name and type of institution of education or training

Waseda University - Department of Humanities (Tōkyō)
- Main subjects/occupational skills object of study

Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature
- Qualification Achieved.

Master's degree (thesis discussed in February 2009) [thesis topic: Murakami Haruki's fantastic literature]

- 2005-2007

Research Student (MEXT Fellowship) (two-year fellowship)

- Name and type of education or training institution

Waseda University - Department of Humanities (Tōkyō)
- Principal subjects/occupational skills covered.

Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature [research topic: Comparative study of the productions of Natsume Sōseki and Murakami Haruki]
- Qualification attained

Research Student

- 10/01-15/03/2005

Professionalizing Course for Italian/Japanese Interpreters

- Name and type of education or training institution

Japanese Cultural Institute (Rome) - Lecturer prof. Ōue Jun'ichi
- Principal subjects/occupational skills covered

Japanese Language/Interpreting Techniques (lv. C1/C2)
- Qualification awarded

Japanese Language Interpreter

- 10/2002-09/2003

MEXT Scholarship Student (annual fellowship)

- Name and type of education or training institution

Kyōto University, Foreign Student Department (Kyōto)
- Main subjects/occupational skills object of study

Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature; Japanese Language; Culture of Japan

- Qualification attained

Course Completion Diploma

- 1999-2002

Three-year course in Language and Culture of Japan

- Name and type of educational or training institution

ISIAO (Rome)
- Principal subjects/occupational skills object of study

Language and Culture of Japan
- Qualification awarded

Final Diploma

- 1998-2004

V.O. degree in Oriental Languages and Civilizations

- Name and type of institution of education or training

Univ. Sapienza, Faculty of Oriental Studies
- Principal subjects/occupational skills object of study

Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature [thesis topic: "The function of the shoulder character in the poetics of Murakami Haruki"; supervisor: Prof. Maria Teresa Orsi] grade: 110 cum laude
- Qualification Achieved.

Doctor of Oriental Languages and Civilizations

Language skills and competences

Mother tongue

Italian

[ Japanese]

- Reading ability

excellent
- Writing ability

excellent
- Oral expression skills

excellent

[English]

- Reading ability

excellent
- Writing skills

excellent
- Oral skills

excellent

Language Certifications

TFA - Teaching Habilitation Class AJ24 (2013)

Business Japanese Test Level2 (2010)

JLPT Level1 (2004)

Japanese Kanji Test Level3 (2003)

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Participation in Multidisciplinary Research Group
- Main duties and responsibilities.

Research activities related to the Master's Course in "Affective, Aesthetic and Emotional Education and Interventional Criminology for Pedophile Syndromes and Sex-offenders" as well as for the 'ongoing edition of the same on "Affective and Sexual Education for Childhood, Adolescence and Parenting." Dr. Cucinelli participates in the activities with a research on "The Difficult Path to Eros: Cases of Adolescents in Modern Japanese Literature" at
the observatory directed by Prof. Matteo VILLANOVA

- 07-24/01/2010
RESEARCH period at Waseda University

- Name and address of employer

Waseda University (Tōkyō) - Central Library
- Type of business or sector

Higher Education
- Type of Employment.

Bibliographic research
- Main duties.

Bibliographic research on Nihon Ryōiki

- 5/-25/10/2023
Research period at Tokyo University for Foreign Studies

- Name and address of employer

University of Florence and Tokyo University for Foreign Studies
- Type of business or sector

Higher Education -
- Type of employment

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH
- Main duties and responsibilities

Bibliographic research at TUFS

- 15/02-02/03/2019
Period of RESEARCH at Okayama University - School of Humanities and Social Science

- Name and address of employer.

Okayama University
- Type of business or sector

Higher Education - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (grant agreement No. 823826)
- Type of employment.

RESEARCH; Participation in Multidisciplinary Research Group.
- Main duties and responsibilities.

Research title "The image of kofun in ancient and modern Japanese literature" (SSD: L-OR/22); within the international project BEyond ARCHAEOlogy [H2020 MSCA RISE 2018 BE-ARCHAEO] - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (grant agreement No. 823826).

- 11/2014 ～
Research Activities.

- Name and address of employer.

Roma Tre University - Department of
Educational Sciences - Observatory Laboratory for the Protection of Emotional Respect Evolving Age (O.L.T.R.E.E.)
- Type of business or sector

Higher Education
- Type of employment.

PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS

As of 01/02/2019

BEyond ARCHAEOlogy [H2020 MSCA RISE 2018 BE-ARCHAEO]

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (grant agreement no. 823826)

Full member (University of Turin team)
Research title "The image of kofun in ancient and modern Japanese literature" (SSD: L-OR/22)

https://www.bearchaeo.com

The main core of BE-ARCHAEO is the archaeological excavation of the Kofun in Tobiotsuka (Soja town in Okayama Prefecture) and challenging studies of other Kofun mounds and related archaeological material in ancient Kibi and Izumo area (present-day Okayama and Shimane Prefectures), with a focus on rituals, regional relations, and ancient state formation in Japan.
The research is methodologically innovative and has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Staff Exchange Program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (Grant Agreement No. 823826).
BE-ARCHAEO concepts are developed and implemented by a consortium of prestigious European academic (University of Turin, University of Lisbon, IRIAE) and private entities (TecnArt, Terra-Marine and Visual Dimension) and a partner institution in Japan (Okayama University).

Participations in Conferences, Congresses, Symposia and Workshops

19/10/2023 Invited talk at the international conference "Nihon gengobunkagaku kenkyūhan"; talk title: "Uchida Hyakken no gensō bungaku." Speakers: Luciana Cardi and Takahashi Miho (Kansai University), Ikuko Sagiyama (Unifi). Edited by TAKAHASHI Miho (Kansai University). Kansai University (Osaka, JP)

14/10/2023 Invited talk at international conference "Minato no kai"; talk title: "Edogawa Ranpo 'Hakuhatsuki ni tsuite". Speakers: SUZUKI Sadami, KURANAKA Shinobu (Daito Bunka University), SASAKI Raita (Jinan University), AIDA Mitsuru (Kokubunken). Edited by KURANAKA Shinobu (Daito Bunka University). Daito University (Tokyo, JP)

09/26/2023 Invited talk at the international conference "Seisei no shosō. Tōzai hikaku no kokoromi - Dimensions of the sacred between East and West; paper title: "The figure of the 'giant' between Japan and Italy"; FORLILPSI (Unifi). Organization dip. Humanities of Tokyo University, SAGAS FORLILPSI DILEF (Unifi).

14-16/09/2023 With Ikuko Sagiyama, organizes the annual conference of the Italian Association for Japanese Studies (AISTUGIA); Biblioteca DELLE OBLATE (Florence)

08/28/2023 Event: "The world of yōkai - Toyo University meets University of Florence" (curated and introduced by Diego Cucinelli and Ikuko Sagiyama); FORLILPSI (Unifi)

13/06/2023 Invited lecture entitled: "From paper to video games: the long journey of Japanese folklore monsters"; Biblioteca Comunale A.CARRARA (Altopascio)

9/05/2023 Event: "Dystopian Literature and the Sino-Italian Imaginary on China," Alessandro Zhu and Andrea Marcelloni talk with Valentina Pedone and Diego Cucinelli; LAURENZIANA Library (Florence)

2/05/2023 Event: "The Echo of the Valley," Anna Maria Shinnyo Marradi dialogues with Diego Cucinelli; Caffe Letterario "Il Conventino" (Florence)

06/27/2023 Interdepartmental event: "Meeting with director Watanabe Hirobumi. Independent Cinema from Deeper Japan" (curated by Diego Cucinelli, Ikuko Sagiyama [FORLILPSI] and Andrea I. Volpe [DIDA]); FORLILPSI (Unifi)

25/04/2023 Open Day CENTRO ZEN FIRENZE SHINNYOJI (curated by Diego Cucinelli and Anna Maria Shinnyo Marradi); Florence Zen Center "Shinnyoji"

19/04/2023 Invited lecture, "What's Left After. Post-apocalyptic ecological literature and the case of Fukushima" within the seminar Aesthetics, Ecology, Biodiversity edited by M.G. Portera; DILEF (Unifi)

03/31/2023 Conference: "What Woman in Japanese Culture and Literature?" (edited by Diego Cucinelli and Giuliana Mazzoni [Uniroma1]); SpazioGADA (Florence)

02/24/2023 Invited lecture "Presentation of the book Spigolature nei campi di Buddha (1897) by Lafcadio Hearn" (Diego Cucinelli talks with Alessandro Giarda); online event

02/23/2023 Lecture by Prof. Massimiliano TOMASI (Western Washington University) (curated and introduced by Diego Cucinelli and Ikuko Sagiyama): ""Endō Shūsaku's Catholicism and the Literary Context of Twentieth-Century Japan"; University of Florence

24/11/2022 Lecture by Prof. Massimiliano TOMASI (Western Washington University) (edited and introduced by Diego Cucinelli): ""The Christianity of Dazai Osamu"; University of Florence

03/02/2022 Invited speaker at the conference LOST IN TRANSLATION (event sponsored by the University of Padua and the Gesshin Association of the Univ. Ca' Foscari of Venice, organization: Martin Eden School)

03/06/2022 By invitation of the STUDIUM Department of the University of Turin and the MAO of Turin, invited speaker at the lecture series "Spirits, demons and the supernatural in Japanese culture"; paper entitled "Stories of a time that was: supernatural creatures of ancient Japan"

03/28/2022 Invited speaker at the webinar "Walking with the yōkai: past and present of Japanese monsters" (event sponsored and organized by Italy Japan Foundation)

03/02/2022 Invited speaker at the webinar "FELINE IMPRETS - cats of the Rising Sun" (event sponsored and organized by Italy Japan Foundation)

22/01/2022 Lecture series entitled "The Difficult Path to Eros: Cases of Adolescents in Modern Japanese Literature" at the Second Level Master Course in "Affective, Aesthetic and Emotional Education and Interventional Criminology for Pedophile Syndromes and Sex-offenders" (ref. Prof. Matteo VILLANOVA - Univ. Roma Tre)

26/10/2021 Report entitled: "Edogawa Ranpo no 'Hakuhatsuki': futatsu no sekai o tsumugu fukushū"; online conference "Transboundary Approaches to Croos-Cultural Viewpoints from Italy, UK and Japan," organized by Kansai University 'Tōzai Gakujutsu Kenkyūsho'

18/05/2021 Chair and Organizer (together with Andrea Scibetta) of the "Sixth FLORIENTALIA Study Day" (webinar; University of Florence)

12/05/2021 Lectio Magistralis: "Itaria de Nihon no bungei sakuhin o hon'yaku suru - Edogawa Ranpo no "Hakuhatsuki" o chūshin ni"; online workshop "Exchange Day between the Shōwa Joshi Daigaku of Tokyo and the University of Florence

04/12/2020 Lecture series entitled "The Difficult Path to Eros: Cases of Adolescents in Modern Japanese Literature" at the Second Level Master Course in "Affective, Aesthetic and Emotional Education and Interventional Criminology for Pedophile Syndromes and Sex-offenders" (ref. Prof. M. VILLANOVA - Univ. Roma Tre)

28/11/2020 Lecture entitled: "Uchida Hyakken no gensōbungaku"; webinar "Annual Study Day of the Department of Languages and Literatures, Okayama University" (invited guest)

29/11/2019 Lecture series entitled "The Difficult Path to Eros: Cases of Adolescents in Modern Japanese Literature" at the Second Level Master Course in "Affective, Aesthetic and Emotional Education and Interventional Criminology for Pedophile Syndromes and Sex-offenders" (ref. Prof. M. VILLANOVA - Univ. Roma Tre)

28/09/2019 Paper titled "A light that pierces the darkness: the fantastic literature of Uchida Hyakken (1889-1971)"; XLIII Annual Conference of the Italian Association of Japanese Studies [AISTUGIA] University of Naples l'Orientale (Naples)

20/05/2019 Paper titled: "From Urashimatarō to Gamera: turtles in Japan between art, cinema and literature" (FLORIENTALIA International Study Day; University of Florence)

30/11/2018 Lecture series entitled "The Difficult Path to Eros: Cases of Adolescents in Modern Japanese Literature" at the Second Level Master Course in "Affective, Aesthetic and Emotional Education and Interventional Criminology for Pedophile Syndromes and Sex-offenders" (ref. Prof. M. VILLANOVA - Univ. Roma Tre)

30/11/2017 Lecture series entitled "The difficult path to L'eros: cases of Adolescents in Modern Japanese literature" at the Second Level Master Course in "Affective, Aesthetic and Emotional Education and Interventional Criminology for Pedophile Syndromes and Sex-offenders" (ref. Prof. M. VILLANOVA - Univ. Roma Tre)

25/11/2016 Lecture series entitled "The Difficult Path to Eros: Cases of Adolescents in Modern Japanese Literature" at the Second Level Master Course in "Affective, Aesthetic and Emotional Education and Interventional Criminology for Pedophile Syndromes and Sex-offenders" (ref. Prof. M. VILLANOVA - Univ. Roma Tre)

27/11/2015 Lecture series entitled "The Difficult Path to Eros: Cases of Adolescents in Modern Japanese Literature" at the Second Level Master Course in "Affective, Aesthetic and Emotional Education and Interventional Criminology for Pedophile Syndromes and Sex-offenders" (ref. Prof. M. VILLANOVA - Univ. Roma Tre)

30/11/2014 Lecture series entitled "The Difficult Path to Eros: Cases of Adolescents in Modern Japanese Literature" at the Second Level Master Course in "Affective, Aesthetic and Emotional Education and Interventional Criminology for Pedophile Syndromes and Sex-offenders" (ref. Prof. M. VILLANOVA - Univ. Roma Tre)

11/10/2014 Paper entitled: "The Fortune of Hyaku Monogatari in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature."
23rd Annual Association of Japanese Literary Studies [AJLS] Western Washington UniversityWashington, USA

20/10/2014 Paper entitled: "A Rewrite Beyond the Second Degree: Edogawa Ranpo's The White-haired Demon (1932)" XXXVIII Annual Conference of the Italian Association of Japanese Studies [AISTUGIA] University of Salento (Lecce)

8/29/2014 Paper entitled: "Uchida Hyakkenʼs ʻcat literatureʼ 14th Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies [EAJS] Ljubljana University (Slovenia)

9/05/2014 Paper entitled: "The importance of pre-Meiji Japanese Literature in Murakami Haruki's poetic"
III International Symposium for Asian Languagese and Literatures [ADES] Erciyes University (Turkey)

03/18/2014 Paper entitled "Ghosts From The Past: The Fortune Of Hyaku Monogatari Kaidankai In Post-Meiji Japanese Literature" 4th Global Conference: Spirituality in the 21st Century: At the Interface of Theory, Praxis & Pedagogy
Continental Hotel, Prague (Czech Republic)

1-3/03/2014 Paper entitled "Murakami Haruki's literature, an endless dichotomy between cat and mouse"
International Symposium on Japanese Studies "Tradition, Modernity, and Globalization in Japan"
Center for Japanese Studies - University of Bucharest (Romania)

12/12/2013 Paper titled "Supernatural female bodies in contemporary Japan: the case of ubume, the 'phantom parturient,' by Kyōgoku Natsuhiko" Conference on Theory and Comparative History of Literature [COMPALIT]
University of Parma (Parma)

16/11/2013 Paper entitled "From name to topos: problems of onomastics in the poetics of Murakami Haruki"
XV Congress of the Onomastics&Literature Association [O&L] Department of Letters, University of Pisa (Pisa)

10/11/2013 Paper titled "From Kobe to Tokyo, from the old to the new continent: the long journey of Murakami Haruki"
"Under the Rising Sun - Homage to Japan" (initiative by the Italy Japan Foundation) Municipal Library (Ladispoli)

09/20/2013 Paper entitled "Literary Palimpsests in the Contemporary Japanese Novel: the literature at the second degree of Kyōgoku Natsuhiko" XXXVII Annual Conference of the Italian Association of Japanese Studies [AISTUGIA]
Japanese Cultural Institute (Rome)

03/27-28/2012 Series of lectures and workshops by the Italian Association of Japanese Language Didactics [auditor] Japanese Institute of Culture /IISO Department, "Sapienza" University of Rome (Rome)

03/22/2013 Report entitled "Japanese language teaching in high schools in Central Italy."
IV Conference of the Italian Association for the Teaching of Japanese Language [AIDLG]
University of Naples "L'Orientale" (Naples)

13/02/2012 Refresher course for Japanese language teachers "Using Google Sites in Japanese language teaching" (by Dr. Shunko Muroya) [auditor] Japanese Cultural Institute (Rome)

05/02/2013 Lecture entitled "When dreams come true: female portraits from folklore to the contemporary Japanese novel" Montevecchio Club (Rome)

06/27/2012 Lectio Magistralis for the PhD course in "Civilizations, Cultures and Societies of Asia and Africa" entitled "Applications of yokaigaku in the contemporary Japanese novel: the case of Kyogoku Natsuhiko", IISO Department, "Sapienza" University of Rome (Rome)

07/06/2012 Lecture entitled "When dreams become reality: female portraits from folklore to the contemporary Japanese novel" Cultural Center "Doozo" (Rome)

12/14/2011 Lecture entitled "The monk of Mount Koya and the fantastic of Izumi Kyôka" Cultural Center "Doozo" (Rome)

17/06/2011 Lecture entitled "The beast in the shadows: the noir of Edogawa Ranpo" Cultural Center "Doozo" (Rome)

14-28/04/2011 Lecture series entitled "Monsters, spectres and demons of Japan" Japanese Institute of Culture (Rome)

02/04/2011 Lecture entitled "Origami and Japanese aesthetics between light and shadow", Mondadori Bookstore (Rome) [event sponsored by Italy-Japan Foundation].

03/25-26/2011 Lecture and workshop series by the Italian Association of Japanese Language Didactics [AIDLG] [auditor] IISO Department, "Sapienza" University of Rome (Rome)

29-30/10/2010 Report entitled "Japanese cinema as a tool for glottodidactics in self-study"
International Congress "Invitation to Japanese Cinema" Faculty of Oriental Studies, "Sapienza" University of Rome (Rome)

10/27/2010 Refresher course for Japanese language teachers "Applications of Power Point in Japanese language teaching" [auditor] Japanese Institute of Culture (Rome)

1-15/10/2010 Lecture series entitled "Kafka on the beach: the fantastic in the poetics of Murakami Haruki"
"Doozo" Cultural Center (Rome)

04/06/2010 International conference for Japanese language teaching "Nihon-JP" by Prof. T. Takeshita [auditor] Cliro (Cesena)

06/30/2010 Lecture entitled "Pathways of homoerotic literature: the Japanese case"
Lecture "Homosexuality in the Rising Sun" Cultural Center "Doozo" (Rome)

03/26-27/2010 Lecture and workshop series by the Italian Association for the Teaching of Japanese Language [auditor] Faculty of Oriental Studies, "Sapienza" University of Rome (Rome)

03/19/20/2010 Lecture entitled "Visions of Kyoto between diaristics and reportage"
Series of presentations of the volume "The Hidden Soul of Japan" edited by M. Croce; Libreria Mondadori / Doozo Culture Centre (Rome)

03/29/2008 Paper entitled "Considerations on the semantic value of the disjunctive adverbial locution kuse ni"
MANABU Conference Italian Cultural Institute (Tokyo)

Direction or participation in editorial boards of journals, publishing series, encyclopedias and treatises of recognized prestige

Director of the PORTE DEI SOGNI series of the CASADEILIBRI publishing house
01-09-2019 to present

Editor and participant in the editorial board of the Japanese Literature line of Gangemi Editore (publishing house registered with MIUR ANVUR-CINECA)
01-11-2019 to present

Curator of the Japanese Literature line for the International Literature series published by Elliot brand
from 01-10-2019 to present

Together with Andrea Scibetta, he is editor of the seventh volume of the series "Florientalia Asian Studies" entitled: Tracing Pathways 雲路 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern and Contemporary East Asia (Florence University Press, 2021)

Together with Miriam Castorina, he is editor of the eighth volume of the series "Florientalia Asian Studies" entitled: Food Issues 食事 Interdisciplinary Studies on 'Food' in Modern and Contemporary East Asia (Florence University Press, 2022)

Formal awarding of teaching or research positions (fellowships)

Monbukagakushō scholarship. Annual fellowship from MEXT (Japanese Ministry of Education,
Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) at Kyōto University (Japan)
01-10-2002 to 30-09-2003

Monbukagakushō scholarship. Two-year fellowship from MEXT (Japanese Ministry of Education,
Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) at Waseda University (Japan)
01-04-2005 to 31-03-2007

Monbukagakushō scholarship. EXTENSION as a Master of Arts Scholarship of the two-year scholarship
of the MEXT (Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) at the
Waseda University (Japan)
01-04-2007 to 31-03-2009

PhD (with MIUR scholarship) XXV cycle in Civilizations, cultures and societies of Asia and
of Africa (sector L-OR/22) at Sapienza University of Rome.
Thesis title: Yōkai compared: the cultural heritage of ancient Japan in the poetics of Murakami
Haruki (1949-) and Kyōgoku Natsuhiko (1963-) [discussed April 22, 2013].
01-10-2009 to 30-09-2012

Bibliographic research stay on the topic of "The Nihon Ryōiki" at the Library of Waseda
University (Tokyo, Japan)
07-01-2010 to 24-01-2010

Entrustment of the Japanese Culture Course - "Monsters, Wraiths and Demons of Japan" module;
by Japan Foundation (Institute of Japanese Culture in Rome)
14-04-2011 to 28-04-2011

At the invitation of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of Okayama University (Japan),
in February/March 2019 carries out a research period at the same to participate in the activities
related to the Be-Archeo project (Kick-Off, symposium and research work design meetings);
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (grant agreement No. 823826).
16-02-2019 to 02-03-2019

Rome, 03/11/2023