Devid Paolini is an Associate Professor of Spanish Literature in the Department of Philology and Criticism of Ancient and Modern Literatures at the University of Siena.
After earning a degree in Lettere Moderne in November 2002 from the University of Bologna, he moved to the United States in 2004, where he obtained a Ph.D. in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures & Languages (2008) at the Graduate Center, The City University of New York (advisor: Ottavio Di Camillo).
He built his entire academic career at The City College of New York (CUNY), beginning as an Adjunct Lecturer (2004-2007), then as a Lecturer (2007-2010), Assistant Professor (2010-2017), Associate Professor (2017-2023), and finally Professor (2023-2024).
His main research interests include Medieval and Renaissance Spanish literature, the revival of theater in the Renaissance, the connections between the Italian and Iberian peninsulas in the 15th and early 16th centuries, and, above all, La Celestina, a Spanish masterpiece to which he has dedicated several articles and a recently published monograph (La génesis de “La Celestina”. Madrid: Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2023).
From 2019 to 2022, he served as vice-president of CELPYC (Circle for the Study of Picaresque and Celestinesque Literature), an association of which he is now president (2022-2025).