Nicola Morato is Associate Professor at the University of Bergamo. He was trained in Italian stylistics and metrics at the University of Padua and received his PhD in Romance Philology from the University of Siena. He has held postdoctoral positions at Paris IV–Sorbonne (Bourse de la Ville de Paris), Siena, King’s College Cambridge and Lausanne, and has been Visiting Scholar or Professor at Columbia University, the University of York and the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. He also served as Professeur-Chargé de cours in medieval French philology and literature at the University of Liège, where he co-directed the research centre Transitions. He serves on several international scholarly and editorial boards, including Le Moyen Âge, Stilistica e metrica italiana and York Manuscript and Early Print Studies, and is a member of the board of the Fondazione Ezio Franceschini (Florence).
Nicola Morato's research focuses on textual scholarship and Romance textual culture, with particular emphasis on Old French traditions, the critical edition of prose narrative cycles, and the multilingual transmission of Arthurian and chivalric literature between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. He also works on narrative forms and literary subjectivity, the representation of war and violence, with particular attention to female figures.
