Curriculum Vitae

Maria Grazia Bartolini

Assistant Professor of Ukrainian Literature and Medieval Slavic Studies

Milan University

CONTACT INFORMATION

Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere

Piazza S. Alessandro 1

20123 Milano

Phone: +390250313631

maria.bartolini@unimi.it

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

Milan University, December 2013–present

Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages

Harvard University, 2013

Daymel and Eugene Shkliar Fellow in Ukrainian Studies, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

Milan University, 2011-2013

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Foreign Languages

EDUCATION

2010 Ph.D. in Slavic Literatures, Milan University

2007 M.A. in Slavic Literatures, Milan University

2004 B.A. in Foreign Languages (with Honors), Bologna University

2004 Visiting Student, University of California at Berkeley, Slavic Department

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Baroque literature and visual culture

Transnational modernism

Early modern Ukrainian literature

Modern Ukrainian literature

Religious history of early modern Europe

PUBLICATIONS

Manuscripts in preparation

Le “lacrime di San Pietro” nella letteratura rutena del Seicento e il trattato di Roberto Bellarmino

Disputationis de Controversiis Christianae Fidei (1593)

Books

Piznai samoho sebe. Neoplatonichni dzherela v tvorchosti H.S. Skovorody, Kiev: Akademperiodika, 2016 (forthcoming)

“Nello stretto triangolo della notte...” Jurij Tarnavs’kyj, il Gruppo di New York e la poesia della

Diaspora ucraina negli USA”, Rome: Lithos, 2012.

“Introspice intus mare pectoris tui”. Ascendenze neoplatoniche nella produzione dialogica di H.S.

Skovoroda (1722-1794), Florence: Firenze University Press, 2010.

Peer-reviewed articles

“Judging a book by its cover”. Meditation, Memory and Rhetorical Invention in Seventeenth-Century

Ukrainian Title Pages. Submitted to “Canadian Slavonic Papers” (October 2016). Under review.

“Manlier than many men”. Images of Female Sanctity in Simeon Polotskii’s Court Sermons, “Studi Slavistici”, 13, 2016 (accepted for print).

The Discourse of Martyrdom in Late 17th-century Ukraine. The "passion sufferers" Boris and Gleb

in the Homilies of Antonii Radyvylovs'kyi and Lazar Baranovych, “Zeitschrift für Slawistik”, 61, 3, 2016, pp. 499-527.

From Icon to Emblem: the relation of word and image in Lazar Baranovych’s Truby sloves

propovidnykh na narochityia dni prazdnikov (1674), “Slavonic and East European Review”, 96:1, Spring 2016, pp. 201-242.

A Linguistic Analysis of the First and Second Redactions of H.S. Skovoroda’s Dialogue Narkiss: from

a Local to a Supernational Perspective, “Wiener Slavistischer Jahrbuch”, 2, 2015, pp. 26-48.

La rappresentazione della Vergine come la sposa del Cantico e la mulier amicta sole di Ap. 12 nelle

omelie rutene sulla Dormizione: tra influssi latini e continuità del modello bizantino, “Slavica Ambrosiana”, 2015, 5, pp. 169-211.

Il testo skovorodiano Ubuždešsja, viděša slavu ego: un trattato catechetico-liturgico sulla festa della

Trasfigurazione? “Studi Slavistici”, XI, 2014, pp. 7-22.

Sant'Ambrogio nella letteratura religiosa slava orientale del Sei e Settecento. Per uno studio

preliminare delle citazioni ambrosiane nell'omiletica rutena barocca, “Slavica Ambrosiana”, 2, 2012, pp. 163-203.

“Glava že vsěm Biblïja”. Le citazioni bibliche nell’opera di H.S. Skovoroda (1722-1794) tra

tradizione slava ecclesiastica e cultura barocca, “Studi slavistici”, 9, 2012, pp. 29-52.

Metafore spaziali della conoscenza di sé nei dialoghi di H.S. Skovoroda: fonti patristiche, “Studi Slavistici”, 2008, 5, pp. 65-88.

Book Chapters

“Ia” zavysle mizh Buttiam i Nichym: maskulinnyst' i ob'iektifikatsiia v rannii poezii Juriia

Tarnavs'koho (1953-1956), in A. Matusiak (ed.) Perekhresni stezhky ukraiins'koho maskulinnoho

dyskursa, Kiev: Laurus, 2015, pp. 222-233.

Dvi redaktsii “Da lobzhet mia ot lobzanii ust svoikh” i “Ubuzhdeshsja, viděsha slavu ego” iak

iliustractsja evoliutsinoho shliakhu skovorodynoii literaturnoii movy: deukraiinizatsiia ta

poslovianshchennia, Zbirnyk Kharkivs'koho istoriko-filolohychnoho tovarystva, Kharkiv 2014, pp. 157-184.

L’interstesto biblico nel dialogo skovorodiano Beseda 1-aja narečenna Obervatorium (Sion). Analisi

strutturale e semantica, in A. Danylenko e S. Vakulenko (eds.) Studien zu Sprache und Literatur bei

den Slaven. Gedenkschrift für George Y. Shevelov aus Anlass seines 100. Geburtstages, Munchen: Verlag Otto Sagner, 2012, pp. 408-443.

Il tempo del saggio come imago aeternitatis: otium e negotium nella produzione filosofica di H.S.

Skovoroda (1722-1794), in P. Tosco (ed.) Immagini di tempo. Studi di Slavistica, QuiEdit, Verona 2010, pp. 15-30.

Sull’attribuzione di un verso greco al “predrevnyj Zoroastr” nel dialogo di H.S. Skovoroda Kol’co,

ili družeskij rozgovor o duševnom mire, in M. Di Salvo, G. Moracci, G. Siedina (ed.), Nel mondo

degli Slavi: incontri e dialoghi tra culture: studi in onore di Giovanna Brogi Bercoff, Florence: Firenze University Press, 2008, pp. 13-21.

Poesia e filosofia nell'Ucraina del Settecento. Motivi epicurei nel Sad božestvennych pesnej di H.S.

Skovoroda, in A. Costazza (ed.), La poesia filosofica, Milano: Cisalpino, 2007, pp. 129-143.

Kiev e la formazione culturale di H.S. Skovoroda, in M.G. Bartolini, G. Brogi Bercoff (ed.), Kiev e

Leopoli. Il "testo" culturale, Florence: Firenze University Press, 2007, pp. 61-75.

Conference proceedings

Skovorodyns’kyi traktat “Ubuzhdeshsja, viděsha slavu ego”. Rol’ bibliinykh tsytat ta patrystychnoii

homiliinoii tradytsii dlia vyznachennia ioho retorychnoii funktsii, “Filosof’ska dumka”, 2014, 5, pp. 73-87.

Pererobka odnoho motivu aleksandriis’koj alehorezy v dialozi Hryhoriia Skovorody “Bran’

archistratiga Mikhaila so Satanoiu”: diavol iak kradii, “Kyiivs’ka Akademiia”, 2008, 6, pp. 200-218.

Book reviews

Tamara Hundorova, Pisljačornobyl’s’ka biblioteka : Ukraijins’kyj literaturnyj postmodern, Kyjiv, Krytyka, 2005, “Studi Slavistici”, 2008, 5, pp. 359-362.

Oleksa Horbač, Ukrajins’ke argo, L’viv, Instytut im. Kryp’jakevyča NAN Ukrajiny, 636 pp., “Studi Slavistici”, 2008, 5, pp. 356-359.

P. Lewin, Ukrainian Drama and Theater in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, Edmonton-Toronto 2008, pp. xxxiv-218, “Studi Slavistici”, 2010, 7, pp. 409-413.

N. Pylypiuk e O.S. Ilnytzkyj (a cura di), Skovoroda Online Concordance, <http:// www.arts.ualberta.ca/~ukr/skovoroda/NEW/index.php>, “Studi Slavistici”, 2010, 7, pp. 413-415.

Innokentij Gizel’, Vybrani tvory, i-iv, a cura di L. Dovha, Vydavniytcvo Svičado, Kyjiv-L’viv 2009-2012, pp. 624-358-460-450. “Studi Slavistici” 10, 2013, pp. 320-324

M. Jaremenko, Kyjivs’ke černectvo XVIII st., Vydavnyčij dim Kyjevo-Mohyljans’ka Akademija, Kyjiv 2007, pp. 303, “Studi Slavistici”, 10, 2013, pp. 324-327.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2013: Daymel and Eugene Shkliar Fellow in Ukrainian Studies, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

2005: Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs – 1 month travel and tuition grant for attending the International Bulgarian Summer School of Veliko Tărnovo

2004: Bologna/Berkeley University – Overseas Exchange Program. 6-months travel and tuition grant for attending a semester at Berkeley University.

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS

1. 2014-present (team member): Region, Nation and Beyond: An Interdisciplinary and

Transcultural Reconceptualization of Ukraine. Project Founders: Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Österreich (FWF). Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schmid (St. Gallen), Prof. Dr. Juliane Besters-Dilger (Freiburg), Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Alois Woldan (Vienna)

2. 2014-present (team member): An Encyclopedia of the Bible in Slavic countries. Project founders: Università di Venezia Ca’ Foscari, Università degli Studi di Firenze, European Research Council, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Freie Universitat Berlin. Project leaders: Alexander Kulik, Florentina Badalanova-Geller, Marcello Garzaniti, Aleksander Naumow, Daniela Rizzi, Roman Timenchik.

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

2016: La tradizione patristica nelle culture slave: ingressi, ritorni, continuità – University of Padua, 7-8 November

2015: 3rd Skovoroda Colloquium, Kiev, Institute of Philosophy, 11-12 June.

ORGANIZATION OF PANELS AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES:

2016: When Global meets Local. Maps and Emblematic Frontispieces in Early Modern Poland,

Lithuania and Ukraine. Panel accepted at the 48th Annual ASEEES Convention, Washington DC, 17-20 November 2016

Panel presenters: Maria Grazia Bartolini, Grzegorz Franczak (University of Milan), Jakub Niedzwiedz (Jagellonian University, Cracow). Discussant: Prof. Valerie A. Kivelson (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

ORGANIZATION OF WORKSHOPS

2016: 19-27 April, University of Milan: Ukraine-Poland-Russia: Competitive Nation Building. Interdisciplinary seminar of eight lectures taught by Prof. Alfred Sproede (University of Münster)

CO-ORGANIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS:

2015: Region, Nation, and Beyond. An Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Reconsideration of

Ukraine. Literary History Meeting. Gargnano, Italy, 7-11 April.

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

Scheduled talks

17 November 2016: “Judging a book by its cover”. Meditation, Memory and Rhetorical Invention in

Seventeenth-Century Ukrainian Title Pages, ASEEES Annual Convention, Washington DC, 17-20 November 2016

Delivered talks:

2016: “Kol’ dobro i kol’ krasno radi Christa umirati”. La riflessione patristica sul martirio nelle omelie rutene del Seicento. Fonti e modelli (in Italian), La tradizione patristica nelle culture slave:

ingressi, ritorni, continuità, University of Padua, 7-8 November 2016.

2016: Competing Concepts of Sainthood in Late Seventeenth-Century Ukraine, ASEEES-MAG Summer Convention, Lviv Catholic University, 26-28 June

2016: The Discourse of Martyrdom in Late 17-th century Ukraine, 2016 Western Association of American Slavists Conference, Reno, Nevada, 13-16 April

2015: Imago figurata. Words and images in Ukrainian 17th-century literature, “Ad fontes”, International Conference for the 400th anniversary of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kiev, 12-14 October (invited)

2015: Presentation of the project “Minima Ucrainica”. International Conference Envisioning Moving

Frontiers. Ukraine and the Balkans, University of Bologna, 10-12 September (invited)

2015: From Icon to Emblem: the Relationship of Word and Image in Lazar Baranovych’s Truby

sloves propovidnykh (1674), “New Directions in Ukrainian Studies”, Vienna University, 11-12 June (invited)

2015: The Bible in the Writings of H.S. Skovoroda, “An Encyclopedia of the Bible in Slavic Cultures”, University of Florence, 9-13 February (invited)

2013: Skovorodyns’kyj traktat “Ubuždešsja, viděša slavu ego”. Rol’ biblijnych cytat ta patrystyčnoji

homilijnoji tradycii dlja vyznačennja joho homilijnoji funkciji, 2nd Skovoroda Colloquium, Kiev, Institute of Philosophy, 10-12 December (invited)

2013: Rol’ biblijnych cytat u Skovorodyns’komy traktati “Ubuždešsja, viděša slavu ego”, 14th Skovoroda Readings, University of Pereiaslav, 3-4 October (invited)

2011: Sant'Ambrogio nella letteratura religiosa slavo-orientale del Seicento e Settecento : per uno

studio preliminare delle citazioni ambrosiane nell'omiletica ucraina barocca. Mediolanum "terra di

mezzo" anche tra Est e Ovest: la terra ambrosiana come terra di passaggio e di incontro anche con il mondo slavo, Milano, Bibiblioteca Ambrosiana, 24-25 May (invited).

2008: Subject-object intersections in the Early Poetry of Jurij Tarnavs’kyj (1956-1970). 7th International Congress of Ukrainian Studies, Kiev, 24-25 June.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Milan University

Spring 2015: Ukrainian Literature (60 hrs, 3 teaching units)

Designed and taught course

Fall 2015: Old Slavic Language and Literature (6 hrs, 3 teaching units)

Designed and taught course

Fall 2016: Old Slavic Language and Literature (6 hrs, 3 teaching units)

Designed and taught course

SUPERVISING EXPERIENCE

I have supervised 10 BA theses and 3 MA theses in Ukrainian Literature, Early Modern Ukrainian Literature and History of Ukrainian Language

JOURNAL REFEREE

Studi Slavistici (Scopus indexed journal)

Rivista Italiana di Filosofia

EDITORIAL ACTIVITY

2015-present: Founder and editor of Minima Ucrainica (ISSN 2498-9843), a quarterly online newsletter on Ukraine, Russia and Eastern Europe. Minima Ucrainica hosts papers by young scholars and photo projects by emerging Ukrainian and Eastern European photographers.

I also designed the website www.minimaucrainica.com, which I manage and regularly update.

LANGUAGES

Italian (native), English, Ukrainian, Russian (proficient), Bulgarian, Polish, French (independent user), Latin, Ancient Greek, Church Slavonic (proficient reading knowledge)

ADMINISTRATIVE ROLES:

2015-present: Secretary of the Italian Association of Ukrainian Studies (AISU) and one of the four members of its Executive Board

• Manage the Association’s mailing list, its website (www.aisu.it) and social media activity (Facebook and Twitter pages)

• Take active part in all the decisions concerning the Association’s financial activities and cultural initiatives

2016: University of Milan, Department of Foreign Languages – Member of the Selection Committee

MEMBERSHIPS

2007-present: AISU – Italian Association of Ukrainian Studies

2010-present: AIS – Italian Association of Slavicists

2013-present: Accademia Ambrosiana, Classe di Slavistica

2015-present: ASEEES - Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

2016-present: ESSA – Early Slavic Studies Association