Valentino D'URSO | Curriculum
Valentino D'URSO Curriculum
Valentino D’Urso is a tenure-track Assistant Professor (RTT) of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Salerno (starting February 2025).
He earned his Ph.D. in Ricerche e studi sull'Antichità, il Medioevo e l'Umanesimo – Salerno (RAMUS) from the University of Salerno in 2018, with a dissertation on Book VIII of Lucan’s Bellum Civile, which was deemed worthy of publication.
In 2020, he obtained the Italian National Scientific Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale, ASN) for the position of Associate Professor in Latin Language and Literature. From October 2022 to January 2025, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Humanities, University of Salerno.
Between the academic years 2022/2023 and 2024/2025, he taught Latin Language and Literature at both the University of Salerno and the University of Basilicata.
He has been a visiting fellow at several prestigious institutions, including the Istituto Internazionale di Studi Umanistici (Sassoferrato), the Fondation Hardt (Geneva), and the Accademia Properziana del Subasio (Assisi). He was awarded the Emanuele Narducci Study Prize by the "Centro di Studi sulla Fortuna dell’Antico" in Sestri Levante.
Dr. D’Urso has participated—both as speaker and organizer—in numerous national and international conferences and seminars. He is actively involved in several research initiatives, including the international project Topografías genéricas en la literatura latina. Dinámicas poéticas, sociohistóricas y culturales del espacio romano (1st c. BCE – 4th c. CE), based at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
He serves on the organizing committees of the Certamen Classicum Hirpinum and the Certamen Classicum Sannazarianum. He regularly acts as a peer reviewer for academic journals and edited volumes, collaborates with the Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, and is a member of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric.
He sits on the editorial boards of the series Echo (Il Castello Edizioni), directed by Sergio Audano and Grazia Maria Masselli, and Akribos anaginoskein (BUP), directed by Aldo Corcella. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Centro di Studi sulla Fortuna dell’Antico “Emanuele Narducci” and serves on the Academic Board of the Ph.D. program Ricerche e studi sull'Antichità, il Medioevo e l'Umanesimo – Salerno (RAMUS).
His research primarily focuses on Latin epic poetry of the Imperial period, with particular emphasis on the work of Marcus Annaeus Lucanus. His interests also include the lyric poetry of Statius, the opera minora of Tacitus, Late Antique and Medieval epic, Renaissance interpretations of classical texts, the reception of Antiquity, and pedagogical approaches to the teaching of Latin in secondary education.
