Uberto Motta

Prof. Dr

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 uberto.motta@unifr.ch
 +41 26 300 7895
 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3539-5124

Italian Renaissance literature

Modern and contemporary poetry

Literary theory

Professor
Department of Italian

BQC 11 bu. 3.210
Av. de Beauregard 11
1700 Fribourg
Hours of presence

Biography

Uberto Motta is full professor of Italian Literature at the University of Fribourg.

After his PhD (1996), he was post-doctoral fellow at the universities of Lausanne, Leuven and Harvard. Between 2003 and 2011 he was a professor of Italian Literature at the Catholic University of Milan. He was a visiting professor at the Orthodox University of St. Tikhon in Moskow, at the University of Novosibirsjk, at the Technical University of Dresden, at the Catholic University of Budapest and at the University of Basel.

He is member of the scientific advisory board of several academic journals.

Research and publications

  • Liste de publications
    52 publications

    La virtù in situazione. Prime note sulla corrispondenza tra Gianfranco Contini e Giovanni Pozzi
    Uberto Motta, Strumenti critici (2026) | Journal article

    Senso dell’inizio, senso della fine nella poesia di Cattafi
    Uberto Motta, (2026) | Conference

    «Poesia è solamente una realtà». L’approdo a «Via delle cento stelle»
    Uberto Motta, (2026) | Conference

    La nascita e la morte. Testori per Pasolini
    Uberto Motta, La modernità letteraria, 19, 2026 (2026) | Journal article

Teaching and courses

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