Devid Paolini is Associate Professor of Spanish Literature at the Department of Philology and Criticism of Ancient and Modern Literature at the University of Siena.
He graduated in Modern Literature from the University of Bologna in November 2001, and in 2004 he moved to the United States to undertake doctoral studies. He received his Ph.D. in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures & Languages (2008) from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), under the supervision of Ottavio Di Camillo.
From 2004 to 2024 he taught at the City College of New York (CCNY), where he held the positions of Adjunct Lecturer (2004-2007), Lecturer (2007-2010), Assistant Professor (2010-2017), Associate Professor (2017-2023) and finally Professor (2023-2024).
His main lines of research concern medieval and Renaissance Spanish literature, the rebirth of theater in the Renaissance, the cultural relations between the Italian and Iberian peninsulas between the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries and, in particular, La Celestina, a masterpiece of late-fifteenth-century Spanish literature to which he has dedicated numerous studies and a recent monograph (La génesis de “La Celestina”, Madrid: Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2023).