Pietro Li Causi is Researcher TT in Latin Language and Literature (L-FIL-LET/04) at the Department DFCLAM (Philology and Criticism of Ancient and Modern Literatures), University of Siena.
Ph.D. in Greek-Latin Philology and Culture (AGLAIA Department - Palermo), he was also Researcher A in Latin Language and Literature at the Department of "Lettere e Culture Moderne" of Sapienza University of Rome and Research Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Palermo, where he taught Latin Culture and Latin Language and Literature.
After obtaining, in 2017, the Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale (ASN: National Scientific Qualification) for second-rank teaching in Latin Language and Literature, in 2021 he also obtained the qualification for first-rank teaching in the same disciplinary field.
Since 2014, he has been an aggregate member of the “IRN Zoomathia (Transmission culturelle des savoirs zoologiques - Antiquité-Moyen Âge)” network; since 2016, he has been in charge of the “Ricerca e sperimentazione didattica” section of the journal ClassicoContemporaneo; and since January 2024, he has been Principal Investigator of the project “Breaking the Silence: Exploring Human-Animal Interactions in the Classical World,” funded by the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza,’ and a member of the Ethics and Scientific Committee of the International Society of Zooanthropology.
Winner in 2000 of ordinary competition for the teaching of literary subjects and Latin in high schools (A051), since 2009 he has been tenured at the Liceo Scientifico “S. Cannizzaro” in Palermo.
Author of numerous contributions on the history of literature and anthropology of the ancient world, Pietro Li Causi has dealt with authors such as Aristotle, Plutarch, Ovid, Pliny the Elder, Seneca, folk zoology and paradoxography of the Greeks and Romans, and the anthropology of gift and kinship in the ancient world. He recently published "In principio erano i mostri" (inSchibboleth 2022) and "Gli animali nel mondo antico" (Il Mulino 2018) and edited, together with Roberto Pomelli, L'anima degli animali (Einaudi 2015). For Palumbo types, he published "Sulle tracce del manticora" (2003), "Generare in comune" (2008) and "Il riconoscimento e il ricordo" (2012 - published with research funds from the Memoria Romana Project). For Edizioni dell'Orso, he then edited, together with Elisa Romano, Marco Formisano and Rosanna Marino, an edition with commentary of Cicero's De oratore (2015).