Elisabetta Bartoli is Associate Professor of Latin Literature and Philology Medieval and Humanistic at the University of Siena. Her main research interests concern the ars dictaminis and medieval rhetoric, medieval Latin bucolic poetry, medieval Latin women's literature, medieval fantastic literature, the use of digital tools applied to the analysis of medieval Latin texts.
She is co-founder and director of the MedioEvA Interuniversity International Center for the study of women's literature of the Middle Ages (promoted by Unisi; Roma Sapienza, UniTours); since 2012 she have been collaborating on various projects of the I Deug-Su Interuniversity Center (in particular the Master Infotext, which she has directed since 2021, and Semicerchio). Since 2012 she is part of the prin Alim (Archive of Italian Latinity of the Middle Ages) and, since 2021, of the Franco-Italian-German Project Dictamina (with Aachen. EFR, Ca' Foscari). She has obtained funding for projects related to the ars dictandi: the Label sciéntifique of the Université Franco-Italienne for the organization of the International Conference Nouvelles frontières du dictamen (Siena 8-9 June 2021), the proceedings of which are in press for MediEvi series by Sismel , the F-cur Unisi for MEWIL, Medieval Women In Letters (in progress), for the organization of an International Conference (Siena, 22-24 novembre 2023), the preparation of two volumes and a digital collection of medieval women's letters, the Label sciéntifique of the Université Franco-Italienne 2023 to organize a cycle of trilingual translation seminars (Italian, French, Latin) on female epistolary materials from the Middle Ages.