Veronica Papotti is a fixed-term pre-Doctoral Researcher in Latin Linguistics at Ghent University. Her research project is Between Characters and Spectators: A Linguistic Analysis of Accommodating Interaction in Plautus and Terence, focused on the sociolinguistics of early Latin comedy. Under the supervision of Professor Giovanbattista Galdi, she investigates syntactic variation as a tool for accommodation in Plautine and Terentian dialogue in different communicative contexts.
She studied Classics at the University of Bologna, where she obtained her BA in 2022 and her MA in Italian Studies in 2024. During her Master’s, she spent six months at Ghent University as an Erasmus+ student. Her MA thesis explored contemporary Latin poetry, with a focus on the so-called Neoclassical Latin employed by modern authors. In December 2024 she returned to Ghent to develop her PhD proposal for an FWO fellowship, and in March 2025 she started her research fellowship at Ghent University.
