Uberto Motta

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

  • Professor, Department of Italian
    BQC 11 bu. 3.210
    Av. de Beauregard 11
    1700 Fribourg
     

    Hours of presence:
    Tuesday: afternoon
    Wednesday: morning and afternoon
    Thursday: morning and afternoon

    Réception des étudiant-e-s et des doctorant-e-s: Jeudi 8h00-11h00  ou sur rendez-vous

    BQC 11, 3.210
     

    Hours of reception:
    Thursday: 10:00-11:30

     

Italian Renaissance literature

Modern and contemporary poetry

Literary theory

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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