Maria Fallica

Current position

• 1/4/2025 : Tenure Track Researcher (RTT)
• 5/1/2023 – 4/30/2026 :  Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow, Folly and the Feminine in the Renaissance (FOLIE)

National Qualification

• 2/02/2023 – 2/02/2033  National qualification as Associate Professor for the Sector 11/A4 – Scienze del libro e del documento e scienze storico religiose (“Science of books and documents”), academic discipline M-STO-07 Storia del cristianesimo e delle chiese (“History of Christianity and of Churches”).

Academic experience

• 10/1/2022 – 9/30/2023 Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Dipartimento of Storia Antropologia Religioni Arte Spettacolo, Sapienza Università di Roma. Supervisor: Gaetano Lettieri
• 10/1/2021 – 9/30/2022 Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Dipartimento of Storia Antropologia Religioni Arte Spettacolo, Sapienza Università di Roma. Supervisor: Gaetano Lettieri
• 8/1/2020 – 7/31/2021 Postdoctoral Fellowship « BE-FOR-ERC » Origen among the Reformers. An authoritative voice in the Patristic anthologies at the Dipartimento of Storia Antropologia Religioni Arte Spettacolo, Sapienza Università di Roma. Supervisor: Gaetano Lettieri.

Education

•      2/27/2020 : Ph.D., Storia, Antropologia, Religioni (“History, Anthropology, Religions”), Sapienza University of Rome, dissertation title: “Progresso. Saggi di lettura nella Christian Library di John Wesley” (“Progress. Reading Essays in John Wesley’s Christian Library”). Supervisor: Prof. Gaetano Lettieri.
• 2/09/2017 : Ph.D., Filologia e storia del mondo antico, Sapienza Università di Roma, dissertation title: Clemente e Origene d’Alessandria all’alba della Riforma. Filologia ed ermeneutica della tradizione patristica greca nel XVI secolo (“Clement and Origen of Alexandria at the Dawn of the Reformation. Philology and hermeneutics of the Greek patristic tradition in the 16th century’’). Supervisor: Prof. Alberto Camplani.
•  3/21/2012 :  Specialist Degree, Filologia Classica, University of Catania, dissertation title: Wolfgang Musculus (1497-1563) traduttore dell’orazione II di Gregorio di Nazianzo (“Wolfgang Musculus (1497-1563) translator of Gregory of Nazianzus’ Oration II”). Supervisor: Prof. Carmelo Crimi.

Fellowships

• 6/01/2016 – 7/30/2016 Herzog-Ernst-Stipendium, Forschungszentrum Gotha – Erfurt (Germany). Project: Origen, the Spirit and the Letter. Victorinus Strigel’s Loci and the Allegorical Interpretation of the Scripture.
• 9/01/2015 – 9/30/2015     Bourse Regard, Institut d’histoire de la Réformation, University of Geneva (Switzerland). Project: Les anthologies patristiques du XVIe siècle par les auteurs réformés et catholiques.

Teaching activities

• 10/14/2021 – 4/30/2023, teaching of Modern History at Online University Unicusano.
• 2/21/2018 – 5/30/2018, teaching of History of Theological Doctrines, Pontifical University Antonianum.

 Conférences and Talks

• 03/26/2025, “The Reinvention of Pseudo-Dionysius’s Mystical Language in Medieval and Early Modern Theology”, seminar at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Fordham University, New York City (USA).
• 03/20/2025, Organization of the panel A Speculative Utopia: The Reception of Pseudo-Dionysius from the Thirteenth to the Seventeenth Century, at the Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Boston, Massachusetts (USA), presenting the paper “Mysticism and the Margin, Mysticism and the Center: The Corpus Dionysiacum in Sixteenth-Century France”.
• 03/23/2024, Organization of the panel The Reception of Erasmus in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France, at The 70th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Chicago (USA).
• 11/01/2024, “Toward a French mystical lexicon: anéantissement and ravissement in Guillaume Briçonnet and Marguerite of Navarre”, paper presented at the Sixteenth Century Society Annual Conference, Toronto.
• 06/13/2024, “Repuerescentia e rinascimento del cristianesimo in Erasmo”, paper presented at the conference Erasmo e noi, Bologna, Accademia delle Scienze dell’Istituto di Bologna.
• 5/24/2024, «“Monsieur saint Denis” in 16th-century France: Guillaume Briçonnet’s Reception of Ps.-Dionysius in his Correspondence with Marguerite of Alençon», paper presented to the 2024 Annual Meeting della NAPS – The North American Patristics Society, Chicago (USA).
• 03/23/2024, “Marguerite of Navarre and Erasmus: A Critical Comparison”, paper presented at the The 70th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Chicago (USA).
• 12/15/2023, “Humanities and the Global Marie Curie Fellowship: The project Folie”, paper presented to the Network and Training Workshop, GrECI – Greek Heritage in European Culture and Identity (GrECI )Twinning Project, University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, Francia.
• 11/18/2023, “Folly and the Feminine in Marguerite of Navarre’s Biblical Humanism”, paper presented to the Annual Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, Texas, Stati Uniti.
• 6/19/2023 – 6/23/2023 paper “Erasmus’s Inheritance and the Spirit of the Reformation: Gogarten vs. Troeltsch”, Sixth Annual Conference European Academy of Religion. Religion from the Inside, St. Andrews, Scotland.
• 6/13/2023, seminar “Liberal paideia, progressive hermeneutics, secularized mysticism”, Erasmus of Rotterdam Research Centre, Rotterdam University, Netherlands.
• 5/10/2023, public lecture “Un Origene protestante. Consenso patristico e conflitto delle interpretazioni all’alba della Riforma”, Pontifical University Antonianum, Rome.
• 1/26/2023 – 1/27/2023, “Eresia, espatrio, dissesto: note sull’apocrifo in Mario Pomilio”, paper presented at the conference Tradizioni segrete, eccesso di senso, Sapienza University of Rome.
• 10/24/2022, lecture «La terza omelia: “L’unico alimento di tutta la creazione è la natura di Dio”», cicle Lectio Origenis 2022. Le Omelie su Isaia, Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum.
• 9/15/2022 – 9/17/2022, paper “The Fifth Gospel and the Gospel of Thomas: An Apocryphal Narrative for the 21^st Century”, CISSR Annual Meeting on Christian Origins, Bertinoro, Italy.
• 6/20-2022 – 6/23/2022, paper « Clement of Alexandria in 16th-Century Germany: A Troublesome Forerunner », « Religion and Diversity », European Academy of Religion 2022, Bologna-FSCIRE.
• 3/30/2022 – 04/02/2022, “Prophecy and Fulfillment. Girolamo Benivieni’s Letter to Pope Clement VII and the Actualization of Savonarola’s Visions”, paper presented at the conference Renaissance Society of America 2022, Dublin, Ireland.
• 4/13/2021 – 4/15/2021, «Rejuvenation of Christianity: Editing Erasmus’ Patristic Scholarship», paper presented at the conference Renaissance Society of America Virtual 2021.
• 5/12/2019 – 7/12/2019, “Cristoforo Marcello e la polemica antiluterana”, paper presented at the International Conference I papati medicei tra Erasmo e Machiavelli. Religione, politica, cultura, Sapienza University of Rome.
• 9/30/2019 – 10/03/2019, «Secunda post naufragium tabula. Girolamo e la penitenza nella prima età moderna», paper presented at the International Conference Girolamo e Roma. Convegno internazionale in occasione del XVI centenario dalla morte, Sapienza University of Rome.
• 7/10/2019 – 7/14/2019, “La lettera di Iacopo Sadoleto ai ginevrini. Carità, giustificazione e consenso in un cardinale erasmiano”, International Conference Im Labor der Moderne. Die Schweiz im Zeitalter der Reformation: Theologie, Ontologie und Psychologie zwischen Deutschland und Italien, Villa Vigoni, Como.
• 6/25/2019 – 6/29/2019, «Marguerite’s Folly. Erasmian Influences in the “Comédie de Mont-de-Marsan »», paper presented at the 17th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR) Religion– Continuations and Disruptions, Tartu, Estonia.
• 5/14/2018 – 5/16/2018, organization of the International Conference Origen and the Origenian Tradition on Progress, with a paper on “Progress in Erasmus as an Origenian Progress”.
• 2/22/2017 – 2/24/2017, «“Predicar Riforma mascarato in gergo”. The Commento nelle celesti e divine epistole di San Paulo of Antonio Brucioli », International Conference Luther in Italy. Reform and Reaction in the Italian Book World, Rome.
• 11/15/2016, seminar “Clement and Origen of Alexandria in the Patristic Anthologies of the 16^th century”, Centre for the Study of Antiquity and Christianity, Aarhus University, Denmark.
• 10/1/2015 – 10/04/2015, “Giustificati per sola fede: consensus omnium Patrum? Ermeneutica del consenso e tradizione origeniana in alcune antologie patristiche riformate e Loci communes di XVI secolo”, paper presented at the II Annual Meeting on Christian Origins, Bertinoro, Italy.

Membership of Scientific Societies, Journals and Collective Reseach Programs

• since 2024 – editorial board, “Laboratorio Erasmo” series, Viella Publishing House, Roma.
• since 2023 – member of the Marguerite de Navarre Society.
• since 2023 – editorial board, Journal “Annali di Storia dell’Esegesi” (ASE), Editoriale Il Portico srl Bologna, ISSN 1120-4001.
• since 2022 – editorial board, Journal “Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni” (SMSR), Editrice Morcelliana, Brescia, ISSN 0393-8417.
• since 2021 – Gruppo Italiano di Ricerca su Origene e la Tradizione Alessandrina (The Italian Research Group on Origen and the Alexandrian Tradition) (GIROTA).
• since 2017 – Laboratorio Erasmo, Center of Scientific Research, Sapienza University of Rome.
• since 2016  – Member of the Roman Editorial Board of the journal «Filosofia e Teologia», Roma
• 2016 – 2019   Associated Researcher– ITN-Marie Curie Project The History of Human Freedom and Dignity in Western civilization (http://itn-humanfreedom.eu/)

Publications

Books

• The Protestant Origen. Polemical Use and Theological Appropriation of Origen in 16th century Patristic Anthologies, Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2022.
• Progresso e tradizione in John Wesley. Il metodismo tra patristica e filosofia moderna, Carocci, Roma 2022.
• with A. Annese, F. Berno, M. Mantovani, Le origini cristiane. Testi e autori (secoli I-II), Carocci, Roma 2021.

Edited volumes

• with L. Battista, B. Tramontano, Narratives of Peace in Religious Discourses: Perspectives from Europe and the Mediterranean in the Early Modern Era, Equinox Publishing, Sheffield, 2024.
• with G. Lettieri, A.C. Jacobsen, Progress in Origen and the Origenian Tradition, Peter Lang, Berlin 2023.
• I metodisti nello spazio pubblico. Diritti e giustizia sociale fra Europa, Asia e America, Carocci, Roma 2020.

Essays

• Rinascita e giovinezza del cristianesimo: Erasmo e la Concio de puero Iesu, in G. Anselmi e Chines (eds.), Erasmo e noi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2025, pp. 245-255.
• La storia delle vittime e la storia di Dio. “Il Natale del 1833” di Mario Pomilio, in M. Ballarini, S. Brambilla, P. Frare, G. Langella (eds.), La preghiera nella letteratura italiana, IPL, Milano, 2024, pp. 740-750.
• L’identità metodista. Due periodici metodisti nell’anno del centenario wesleyano (1891), in D. Garrone, P. Naso, S. Nitti (eds.), Metodisti in Italia, Claudiana, Torino, 2024, pp. 117-132.
• Peace, Prophecy, and the Apocalyptic Expectation. Girolamo Benivieni’s Letter to Clement VII, in L. Battista, M. Fallica, B. Tramontano (eds), Narratives of Peace in Religious Discourses: Perspectives from Europe and the Mediterranean in the Early Modern Era, Equinox Publishing, Sheffield, 2024, pp. 90-133.
• The Crux of Peace: An Introduction, in L. Battista, M. Fallica, B. Tramontano (eds), Narratives of Peace in Religious Discourses: Perspectives from Europe and the Mediterranean in the Early Modern Era, Equinox Publishing, Sheffield, 2024, pp. 1-11.
• Clemente VII nuovo Mosè a Bologna, in «DE MEDIO AEVO», (2023), online.
• Erasmus and the Lady of Loreto, in «Erasmus Studies», n. 43/2 (2023), pp. 119–140, open access at https://doi.org/10.1163/18749275-04302002
• La potenza della parola. Erasmo e l’incipit del Prologo di Giovanni, in G. Lettieri/L. Geri (eds.), Erasmo libero, Viella, Roma 2023, pp. 141-166.
• Un Erasmo medievale e cattolico. L’edizione di Algero di Liegi del 1530 e l’interpretazione mistica della transustanziazione eucaristica, in G. Lettieri/L. Geri (eds.), Erasmo libero, Viella, Roma 2023, pp. 379-406.
• Charity and Progress in Erasmus, in A.C. Jacobsen/G. Lettieri/ M. Fallica (eds.), Progress in Origen and the Origenian Tradition, Peter Lang, Berlin 2023.
• Iacopo Sadoleto ai ginevrini: umiltà, carità e tradizione nella lettera di un cardinale erasmiano, in R. Barcellona, A. Rotondo (eds.), Protagonisti e antagonisti del Primato Cristianesimo Poteri Istituzioni Studi per Teresa Sardella, Soveria Mannelli 2022, pp. 259-276.
• Rewriting the Continental Reformation for the Italian Public. The Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans by Antonio Brucioli, in «Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni» n. 88/1 (2022), pp. 265-280.
• An Anglo-Syrian Monk: John Wesley’s Reception of Pseudo-Macarius, in «Open Theology» 2021, 7, pp. 491-500.
• Una mistica razionale: Lessing e Das Testament Johannis, in «Filosofia e Teologia» 1 (2021), pp. 129-139.
• Secunda post naufragium tabula. Girolamo e la penitenza nella prima età moderna, in I. Schaaf (ed.), Hieronymus Romanus. Studies on Jerome and Rome on the Occasion of the 1600th Anniversary of his Death, Brepols, Turnhout 2021, pp. 571-586.
• Origen and the glorified body. Bullinger, Sozzini and Calvin in Dialogue, in B. Bitton-Ashkelony, O. Irshai, A. Kofsky, H. Newman, L. Perrone (eds.), Origeniana duodecima. Origen’s Legacy in the Holy Land – A Tale of Three Cities: Jerusalem, Caesarea and Bethlehem. Proceedings of the 12th International Origen Congress, Jerusalem, 25-29 June, 2017, Peeters, Leuven – Paris – Bristol 2019, pp. 725-740.
• Quodammodo transfiguratum est in animum: Erasmus’ doctrine of the resurrection of the body and its Origenian roots, in Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity 23/1 (2019), pp. 82-100.
• Abrasax, in D. G. Hunter, P. J. J. van Geest, B. J. Lietaert Peerbolte (eds.), Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity Online, DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2589-7993_EECO_SIM_00000021
• Origene pro sola fide nel Beneficio di Cristo. L’antologia patristica Unio dissidentium come fonte riformata di un’anomala auctoritas, in Adamantius, Annuario di Letteratura Cristiana Antica e di Studi Giudeoellenistici, n. 22, 2016, pp. 416-444.
• Adversarii perpetuo clamant: patres, patres, patres. Serve ancora tradurre i Padri? Wolfgang Musculus traduttore dell’or. 2 di Gregorio di Nazianzo, in Adamantius, Annuario di Letteratura Cristiana Antica e di Studi Giudeoellenistici, n. 21, 2015, pp. 380-385.
• Teti pellegrina e salvatrice: note sull’Andromaca di Luca De Fusco, in La tradizione classica nella memoria occidentale, n. 90, 2011, online.

Translations

Crediamo nel Signore crocifisso e risorto, Città Nuova, Roma 2021. Updated and revised translation of M. Edwards (ed.), We believe in the crucified and risen Lord, InterVarstity Press, Downers Grove 2009.

Reviews

Review to Florian Schaffenrath and María Teresa Santamaría Hernández (eds.), Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Albasitensis. Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies (Albacete 2018), «Erasmus Studies» 42/1 (2022), pp. 77-78.

Review to A. Annese (ed.), Ecumenismo e cattolicità delle Chiese. Il contributo del metodismo, Carocci, Roma 2016, «Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni» 83/1 (2017) pp. 317-319.

Review to P. Sachet, Publishing for the Popes: The Roman Curia and the Use of Printing (1527–1555), Brill, Leiden 2020,  «Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni» 87/1 (2021), pp. 396-398.