lisabetta Bartoli is Associate Professor of Medieval and Humanistic Latin Philology at the University of Siena. She holds the Italian National Scientific Qualification for Full Professorship in academic sector 10/FLMR-01. Her main research interests include the ars dictaminis and medieval rhetoric, bucolic poetry in Medieval Latin literature, Medieval Latin women’s writing, medieval fantastic literature, and the application of digital tools to the analysis of Medieval Latin texts.
She is co-founder and Director of the International Interuniversity Centre MedioEvA, devoted to the study of medieval women’s literatures and jointly promoted by the University of Siena, Sapienza University of Rome, and the University of Tours. She directs the second-level postgraduate Master’s programme Infotext: Textual Computing and Digital Edition and is a member of the Executive Board of the Interuniversity Centre for Comparative Studies I Deug-Su. At the University of Siena, she also directs the teacher-training and certification programmes for class A11, Italian and Latin in upper-secondary schools.
She is a member of the Scientific Committee of ALIM, the Archive of Italian Latinity of the Middle Ages, and leads the Siena research unit of the Franco-Italian-German project Dictamina (2021–2026), involving RWTH Aachen University, the École française de Rome, and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. She has received international funding for projects devoted to the ars dictandi and medieval women’s literature. Among her current projects, she is Principal Investigator of UMAS – Medieval Universities of Arezzo and Siena, funded by the Tuscany Region.