CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL INFORMATION
FAMILY NAME,FIRST NAME GRASSI UMBERTO
ADDRESS Via Ridolfi 30, 56124, Pisa (PI), Italy
TELEPHONE NUMBER +39-340-5106624
E-MAIL ADDRESS [email protected]
NATIONALITY Italian
DATE OF BIRTH 15/09/1977
EDUCATION
2011-2012 Qualification as High School Teacher in Philosophy and History (earned on 17/07/2013)
TFA (Tirocinio Formativo Attivo) University of Siena, Italy
2008-2010 PhD in Early Modern History
(earned on 14/11/2011)
Scuola di Dottorato in Storia, Orientalistica e Storia delle Arti (PHD school of History, Oriental Studies and History of Arts) University of Pisa, Italy.
Dissertation: LʼOffitio sopra lʼOnestà. Il controllo della sodomia nella Lucca del Cinquecento (The Offitio sopra l’Onestà. The Control of Sodomy in 16th Century Lucca Republic). Supervisor: Prof. Adriano Prosperi.
2009-2010 Recherches Doctorales Libres
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
Free Doctoral Research at the EHESS consent to foreign PHD students free access to courses, seminars and infrastructures without formal inscription, provided the supervision of a EHESS' professor.
1996- 2002 MA (laurea) in Early Modern History (earned on 12/11/2002) (110 cum laude)
University of Pisa, Italy
Dissertation: LʼOffitio sopra l'Onestà. La repressione della sodomia nella Lucca del Cinquecento (The Offitio sopra l’Onestà. The Repression of Sodomy in 16th Century Lucca Republic). Supervisor: Prof. Adriano Prosperi.
CURRENT POSITION
21/11/2013 – now Independent Scholar.
Since the end of the contract within the FIRB project, I have not been able to find a new academic position. While I have recently published a monograph and I am under contract for one monograph and two edited volumes with three leading Italian publishers such as Einaudi, Carocci and Viella, I am currently doing occasional jobs to provide my economic support.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
26/11/2012–21/11/2013 Research Fellow
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (Faculty of Arts), Italy
Within the Project «Beyond “Holy War”. Managing Conflicts and Crossing Cultural Borders between Christendom and Islam from the Mediterranean to the extra-European World: Mediation, Transfer, Conversion (XVth-XIXth Century)», funded by the FIRB Programme of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research.
05/2014 Term Contract Worker
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (Faculty of Arts), Italy Within the Project «Beyond “Holy War”».
Bibliographical research on the homoeroticism in Early Modern Islam and Christianity worlds.
FELLOWSHIPS
26/11/2012–21/11/2013 Research Fellow
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (Faculty of Arts), Italy
within the Project «Beyond “Holy War”. Managing Conflicts and Crossing Cultural Borders between Christendom and Islam from the Mediterranean to the extra-European World: Mediation, Transfer, Conversion (XVth-XIXth Century)», funded by the FIRB Programme of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research.
AWARDS
2012 GLBTQ Studies Award
received from the LGBTQ association “Maurice GLBTQ” (Torino, Italy) for my PhD dissertation.
MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
Since 2013 Member of “SISEM”
Società Italiana per la Storia dell'Età Moderna
(Italian Society for the study of the Early Modern Period).
Since 2014 Memeber of RSA (Renaissance Society of America)
MEMBERSHIPS OF RESEARCH GROUPS
2014 Member of “EmoDiR” (Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism),
international research group.
Coordinator: Federico Barbierato, University of Verona.
The following institutions have signed cooperation agreements:
University of Verona; University of Venice Ca’ Foscari; École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris; University of Maryland; University of Geneve; LERMA (Aix-Marseille University); Ruhr University of Bochum.
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
26-28/3/2015 Renaissance Society of America, Annual Conference (Berlin, Humboldt University)
Panel 10466: Early Modern Religious Dissent and Radicalism IV
Paper presented: Sex, Displacements and Cross-Cultural Encounters
10/3/2015 Giornata di Studi: L’omosessualità prima della sua “invenzione” moderna. In memoria di John Boswell. (Conference: Homosexuality before his Modern “Invention”. In memory of John Boswell)
Papaer presented: L’orientamento sessuale tra essenzialismo e costruzionismo: un dibattito (Sexual Orientation between essentialsm and social constructionism: a historiographical debate).
CSC e Politesse, Università degli studi di Verona
19-20/05/2014 Seminário permanente. As nobrezas do sul da Europa: modelos, práticas, estruturas e sistemas de representação nos siculos XV-XVIII. VII seminário: Nobreza, impureza de sangue e crimes nefandos
(Permanent Seminar: Aristocracies in Southern Europe: Models, Performances, Structures and Systems of Representation, XV-XVIII centuries. VII seminar:
Aristocracy, Purity of Blood and Nefarious Crimes).
Paper presented: Sexo y autoridad. Nobleza, honor masculino y sodomía en el mundo mediterráneo (siglos XVI- XVII) (Sex and Authority: Aristocracy, male honor and Sodomy in the Mediterranean World: XVI-XVII century).
Universidade de Évora (Portugal).
10-11/02/2014 International Workshop, Christian Islamic Interactions: Mobility, Connection, Transformation (1450-1800),
Paper presented: “La sodomia no era pecado”: sessualità illecita tra cristiani e musulmani nel mondo iberico di età moderna (“Sodomy was not a Sin”: Illicit Sexuality among Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Iberian World).
19/11/2012 Seminário permanente sobre a Inquisção. IV sessão
(Permanent Seminar on Inquisition)
Paper presented: “Las Inquisiciónes” en Italia y el “vicio abominable” de la sodomía (The Inquisitions in Italy and the “abominable vice” of sodomy). Universidade de Évora (Portugal).
10-12/5/2015 III Simposio Internacional de Estudios Inquisitoriales (Alcalá de Henares, España).
Mesa redonda: Inquisição e repressão aos pecados/crimes da carne
(Inquisition and repression of the sins of the flesh)
Paper to be presented: Fronteras culturales y pecados contra la naturaleza en la época moderna (Cultural Boundaries and sins against nature in the Early Modern Period).
Universidad de Alcalá – Spain
Gennaio 2016 Seminar: Gays Studies sulla Età Moderna in Italia e Spagna. Storia religiosa o storia della sessualità? (Early Modern Gay Studies in Italy and Spain. Religious History or History of Sexuality?)
Coordinator
Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs
LʼOffitio sopra l'Onestà. Il controllo della sodomia nella Lucca del Cinquecento, Milano, Mimesis, 2014 (The Offitio sopra l’Onestà. The Control of Sodomy in the 16th Century Lucca Republic)
Il peccato di Sodoma. Crimini contro natura e omosessualità dal mondo tardo antico allʼepoca moderna, Roma, Carocci, forthcoming (under contract, due for publication – 2015) (The Sin of Sodom: Crimes against Nature and Homosexuality from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period)
Edited Volumes
Le trasgressioni della carne. Il desiderio omosessuale nel mondo islamico e cristiano, sec. XII-XX, edited by U. Grassi, G. Marcocci, Roma, Viella (under contract, due for publication March 2015) (The Transgressions of the Flesh: Homosexual Desire in Muslim and Christian Worlds, XII-XX centuries)
ISBN: 9788867283064
Daniello Bartoli, Istoria della Compagnia di Gesù. LʼAsia, edited by A. Prosperi, U. Grassi, Torino, Einaudi (under contract, due for publication: 2016).
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
L'Offitio sopra lʼHonestà. La repressione della sodomia nella Lucca del Cinquecento (1551-1580),in «Studi Storici. Rivista trimestrale dell’Istituto Gramsci», n° 1, anno 48, Roma, 2007, pp. 129-159. (The Offitio sopra l’Onestà: the Repression of Sodomy in 16th Century Lucca Republic)
Omosessualità, Cristianesimo, Islam. Nuove prospettive di ricerca, in «Storica», 59/2014 (forthcoming, already accepted). (Homosexuality, Christianity and Islam: New Perspectives of Research)
Grassi legge Barbagli, in «Storica», 58/2014 (forthcoming, already accepted) (Grassi reads Barbagli: a Review Article)
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