Corradi Federico

Full Professor of French Literature (FRAN-01/A), University of Naples « L’Orientale »

Education, professional history, grants

2024 - ongoing : Full Professor of French Literature (FRAN-01/A), University of Naples « L’Orientale »

2018: Scientific qualification for the role of Full professor (Academic Recruitment Field 10H1 - French Language, Literature and Culture)

2015 – 2024 : Associate Professor, University of Naples « L’Orientale »

2014-2015: Associate Professor, University « Guglielmo Marconi »

2011-2014: Lecturer (RtdA), University « Guglielmo Marconi »

2009-2010: Post-doctoral research grant in French Literature, University Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III. Title of the project: « Saint-Réal et la naissance de la nouvelle historique ».

2007: Doctorate (PhD) in French studies, University of Rome Sapienza

2003: Master degree in Modern Literatures, University of Pisa

Direction of projects and grants

Since 2024: Scientific coordinator of the department project "Jeux d'auteurs. Il modello del gioco nel romanzo: prospettive linguistico-letterarie"

Since 2021: Tutor of a research grant within the project: « Les ports de la Méditerranée ».

Since 2020: Scientific coordinator (with Maria Centrella and Jana Altmanova) of the interuniversity project « Les ports de la Méditerranée », funded by the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) – Direction régionale Europe de l’Ouest.

Since 2019: Scientific coordinator of the department project “Letteratura e verità: strategie di svelamento nel discorso letterario” (2019), funded by the Dipartimento di Studi Letterari, Linguistici e Comparati of University of Naples « L’Orientale ».

Since 2017: Scientific coordinator for University of Naples “L’Orientale” of the interuniversity project “Corsi MOOCs per un percorso sperimentale di didattica delle lingue straniere moderne” (headed by University of Palermo), funded by the MIUR.

Participation to research groups and projects:

Member of the local unity in the PRIN project 2022: "Shakespeare's Narrative Sources: Italian Novellas and the European Dissemination".

Member of the Centro di Ricerca Interuniversitario di Argomentazione, Pragmatica e Stilistica ARGO.

Member of the scientific board of the Centro di Elaborazione Culturale su Letterature e Psicoanalisi (CIRLEP) at the University of Naples « L’Orientale ».

Member of the research group “Fabula numerica” (CELLF 16-18/Laboratoire d’excellence OBVIL) http://obvil.paris-sorbonne.fr/projets/fabula-numerica)

Member of the research group “Jouvences de la Fable (1600-1750)” (CELLF 16-18/Paris-Sorbonne)

Member of the LARC (Laboratorio di Ricerche sul Contemporaneo), Sapienza University of Rome. https://larc.hypotheses.org/lequipe

Collaboration with the PRIN research 2009 La narrativa francese contemporanea: temi e problemi critici (national coordinator prof. Matteo Majorano – University of Bari “Aldo Moro”). Local unity: La Sapienza Università di Roma (prof. Gianfranco Rubino).


Institutional positions

President of the "Collegio dell’Area Didattica" of "Culture Comparate" and coordinator of the "Lingue e culture comparate" degree program since 2024

Member of the University Senate, University of Naples « L’Orientale » from 2017 to 2023.

Member of the « Collegio docenti » (and of the Quality Assurance group) of the Doctorate school in Studi letterari, linguistici e comparati, University of Naples « L’Orientale ».

Member of the Jury of the "Prix XVIIe siècle" (Société d'étude du XVIIe siècle) since 2024

Vice President, with Maya Slater and Bernard Beugnot, of the Société des Amis de Jean de La Fontaine http://patrickdandrey.com/societe-la-fontaine/societe-des-amis/

Associated correspondent of the « Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature » http://periodicals.narr.de/index.php/papers_on_french/about/contact

Associated correspondent of the "Société des Littératures classiques"

Associated correspondent of the « Société d'Histoire littéraire de la France »

Scientific referee of the research agreement between University of Naples L'Orientale and Université de Nice Côte d'Azur.

Member of the editorial board of the review « Le Fablier », published by the Société des Amis de Jean de La Fontaine. http://patrickdandrey.com/societe-la-fontaine/le-fablier/

Member of the editorial board of the review « Annali – Sezione Romanza » (Dipartimento di Studi Letterari, Linguistici e Comparati of the University of Naples « L’Orientale »). http://www.serena.unina.it/index.php/aionromanza/login

Member of the editorial board of the collection « Quaderni della ricerca » (Doctorate in Studi Letterari, Linguistici e Comparati). http://www.unior.it/ateneo/20609/1/collana-editoriale.html

Member of the scientific board of the digital collection “Mercures – Studi Mediterranei di Francesistica” (Mucchi editor, Modena).

Member of the Council of Seminario di Filologia Francese from 2010 to 2015 and from 2018 to 2021.

Academic research and teaching

After graduating in Modern Literatures at the University of Pisa, under the direction of Francesco Orlando (2003), he obtained a Doctorate degree in French Studies at Sapienza University of Rome (2007), with a final dissertation on the Image of the author in La Fontaine’s works.
Thanks to a post-doctoral grant, he led researches on the writing of history in Saint-Réal’s works at the University of Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, under the direction of Jean-Paul Sermain (2009-2010).

From 2009 to 2015 he taught French Language and French Literature at the University « Guglielmo Marconi », as a contract lecturer, then as a RtdA lecturer, and finally as an associate professor, creating several multimedia courses and laboratories. In the same period, he worked as a contract lecturer at the universities of Trento, Cassino and Roma Tre.

Associate Professor, then Full Professor at the University of Naples « L’Orientale », he was member of the University Senate from 2017 to 2023 and since 2016 of the « Collegio dei docenti » of the Doctorate in Studi letterari, linguistici e comparati.

Member of the SUSLLF and of Sigismondo Malatesta Association, he was the Secretary of Seminario di Filologia Francese from 2010 to 2015 and member of the Council from 2018 to 2021.

His main research field is La Fontaine’s work and the tradition of humanist fable. He devoted to La Fontaine a volume and several articles in French and Italian reviews. He worked on the Neo-latin, French and Italian collections of Aesopic fables of 16th and 17th centuries, and on the reception of Italian and Oriental fables in 17th century France. Member of the research group “Jouvences de la Fable (1600-1750)” at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and of the editorial board of “Le Fablier”, he collaborates since 2013 to “Fabula numerica”, a project of digital humanities directed by Patrick Dandrey (CELLF 16-18/Laboratoire d’excellence OBVIL). Within this project, he co-organized with Patrick Dandrey the conference La Fontaine et la culture européenne. Au carrefour des Fables, Université Paris-Sorbonne, October 2018 and with Patrick Dandrey and Jean-Charles Darmon the conference « Qu’un ami véritable est une douce chose! ». Amitiés et dilections lafontainiennes, Université Paris-Sorbonne/École Normale Supérieure, November, 2021. Since 2016 he is Vice President of the Société des Amis de Jean de La Fontaine.

As a specialist of 17th Century Literature, he wrote on theatre, novel, historical discourse, literary criticism and moralists’ tradition. He studied mainly Saint-Réal, Saint-Évremond and La Bruyère. Moreover, he edited and translated in Italian some 17th Century texts: Madame de Lafayette, La Principessa di Montpensier, Portaparole, 2011 and Molière, Anfitrione, in Teatro, Bompiani, 2013. He also published the handbook Introduzione al Seicento francese e al classicismo (Edizioni Nuova Cultura, 2006).

Another research field is contemporary French fiction. As a member of the Larc since 2005, he wrote on contemporary historical fiction and on the presence of French classical authors in contemporary novel. He collaborated with the PRIN research 2009 La narrativa francese contemporanea: temi e problemi critici (local unity La Sapienza) and took part (with Silvia Disegni and Dominique Viart) in the organization of the conference Écrire avec les livres. Présences de la littérature française du passé dans les romans et récits contemporains (Naples, October 2018).

Besides his participation to national and international conferences, he held conferences for Phd students (L’Orientale, Sapienza, Ca’ Foscari, University of L’Aquila, University Paris XIII), he was member of examining boards for Phd dissertations (Sapienza, Cassino, Napoli L’Orientale) and of adjudicating boards for RtdA positions and contract lecturers. He is a supervisor of a Phd student in co-tutorship and coordinator for « L’Orientale » of research projects (see above).