Teodoro Katinis is Associate Professor of Italian literature in the Department of Literary Studies (Ghent University) where he is the coordinator of the Italian section, director of the Group for Early Modern Studies (https://www.gems.ugent.be), and member of CHARM (Consortium for Health Humanities, Reading, Arts, and Medicine). He is also associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy (Springer, 2022), member of the editorial board of Fabrica Litterarum Polono-Italica, and member of the scientific board of Rassegna europea di letteratura italiana. Besides, he is one of the founders of the Società Dante Alighieri Gent 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). He is the author of more than fourty contributions, including a monograph on philosophy and medicine in Marsilio Ficino (Roma 2007), a monograph on Sperone Speroni and the rebirth of sophistry in the Italian Renaissance (Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History Series), edited volumes and essays published in international journals (such as Renaissance Studies, Bruniana & Campanelliana, MLN, Revue Romane) and miscellaneous books.
To reaching out to also a non-academic audience, Katinis organises and produces events at the intersection of litterature and arts, in collaboration with UGent, the SDA Gent, and the IIC in Brussels, working with actors (Fabio Bussotti and Riccardo Raffaele Bozano) and musicians (Wouter Vandenabeele, Sara Salvèrius, and Soumaya Hallak).
His research currently focuses on the history and theory of rhetoric in the Neo-Latin and Italian tradition between Dante Alighieri and Emanuele Tesauro. A recent result of this is 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: Retorica reversa. Patrizi da Cherso e la dissoluzione impossibile (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.
