Teodoro Katinis is Associate Professor of Italian literature at the Department of Literary Studies (Ghent University).
He is Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy (Springer, 2022), one of the founders of the Società Dante Alighieri-Gent, scientific director of the Lectura Dantis Series at Ugent, coordinator of the Italian Section at UGent, co-Director of the Group of Early Modern Studies (GEMS), member of CHARM (Consortium for Health Humanities, Reading, Arts, and Medicine), and Onorary President of the Fondazione Kattinis - ETS.
Among other fellowships, Katinis was Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2015-2016). Katinis holds a Ph.D. in Italian (Johns Hopkins University) and a Ph.D. in philosophy (Università degli Studi Roma Tre). His first monograph, on philosophy and medicine in Marsilio Ficino (Roma 2007), collects the results of his research on the medical literature in the Italian Renaissance; while the outcomes of other research subjects, including Platonism and its enemies in the political literature of the Renaissance, history of early-modern rhetoric, Torquato Tasso’s poems and poetics, and the early-modern dialogue, have been published in international journals and volumes. Katinis' monograph on Sperone Speroni and the rebirth of sophistry in the Italian Renaissance is published in the Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History Series (https://brill.com/abstract/title/34759).
Katinis' research currently focuses on the history and theory of rhetoric in the Neo-Latin and Italian tradition between Dante Alighieri and Emanuele Tesauro. He has just published the open-access article The Ancient Greek Sophists in Emanuele Tesauro’s Il cannocchiale aristotelico (1670): Thrasymachus and Gorgias (https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/13/1/33) which intends to expand internationally the knowledge of the sophists in early modern literature as well as Tesauro's masterpiece. He is now mainly working on two book projects, Proteo allo specchio. Accessi alla letteratura retorica del Rinascimento italiano (Vecchiarelli, Roma) and Portrait(s) of a Queen. The Renaissance of Rhetoric in Italy (Legenda, Cambridge) which aim at kindling a new interest in the vernacular literature on rhetoric.