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 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.
Katinis holds a Ph.D. in Italian (Johns Hopkins University) and a Ph.D. in philosophy and human sciences (Università degli Studi Roma Tre).
Among other fellowships, he was Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice (2015-2016).
He is the author of more than fourty contributions, including a monograph on philosophy and medicine in Marsilio Ficino (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2007), a monograph on Sperone Speroni and the rebirth of sophistry in the Italian Renaissance (Brill, 2018), and several essays published in international journals (including also Renaissance Studies, Bruniana & Campanelliana, MLN, Revue Romane) and in 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 Società Dante Alighieri Gent, and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura of Brussels, working with actors (Fabio Bussotti and Riccardo Raffaele Bozano) and musicians (Wouter Vandenabeele, Sara Salvèrius, and Soumaya Hallak). For the same purpose, he is founder and steering-group member of the SDA Gent and Onorary President of the Fondazione Kattinis - ETS.
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).
Portrait(s) of a Queen. The Renaissance of Rhetoric in Italy (Legenda, Cambridge).
