Paolo Borsa

Chair of the Department of Italian, Chair of the BLL Library Committee

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 paolo.borsa@unifr.ch
 +41 26 300 7894
 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7210-3477

Littérature et philologie italiennes

Professor
Department of Italian

BQC 11 bu. 3.207
Av. de Beauregard 11
1700 Fribourg
BQC 11, 3.207

Biography

Paolo Borsa is Full Professor of Italian Literature in the Department of Italian at the University of Fribourg. He is Chair of the Department of Italian, Chair of the Library Committee for Medieval and Modern Languages and Literatures (BLL) et Director of the Medieval Institute of Fribourg.

After completing his PhD in 2004, he worked as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Milan (2010–2019). He also taught at the Polytechnic University (2005–2015) and in the Advanced Master's Programme in Publishing (2013–2019) in Milan. He was Visiting Professor at the University of Helsinki (2015), the University of Cambridge (2017), and the Romanisches Seminar of the University of Zurich (A.Y. 2017-2018). He collaborates with the Centre for Medieval Literature in York and Odense, and co-edits the journals Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures, Rassegna europea di letteratura italiana, and Tenzone. Since 2024, he has served as Expert for Italian at the Cantonal School of Commerce in Bellinzona.

His primary research interests concern early Italian literature and Dante, as well as Italian literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He leads the project Ugo Foscolo, Epistolario 1825–1827, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. 

All his publications are available in open access : 2002-2018 | 2019-present.

Research and publications

Teaching and courses

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