Marco Sabbatini

DSc in Philology

Education:
Macerata State University, Faculty of Philology (1993–1999). Specialized in Russian language and literature
Roman State University Sapienza, Faculty of Philology. Programme: Literary Translation (1999–2000)

PhD programme:
Philology and Comparative Literature of Central and Eastern Europe. Faculty of Slavic and Central-Eastern European Studies (DISSEUCO) (2000–2004)

PhD thesis:
Text and Myth-Making in Leningrad Poetry of 1970–1980. V. Krivulin, Elena Shvarts, Sergei Stratanovsky (Rome, 2004)

Doctoral habilitation
Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale: 2014 and 2020

Research interests:
Samizdat, literary theory, Russian-Italian cultural relations, Russian emigration, Soviet literature, unofficial literature and culture.

Professional service:
Since 2023, Deputy Director of the Doctoral program PhD in Linguistic Disciplines and Foreign Literatures (DiLLeS), University of Pisa
Since 2025, Chairman of the Master's Program in Linguistics and Translation (Linguistics and Translation), University of Pisa

Other information
Director of the series «Masterskaja20» (Write up books) https://www.writeupbooks.com/masterskaja-20-studi-e-ricerche-sulla-russia/;
Since 2019, together with Claudia Pieralli, he has been co-director of the research project “Free Voices in the USSR. Literature, Thought, Independent Arts in the Soviet Union and their Echoes in the West (1953–1991)”, edited by Claudia Pieralli and Marco Sabbatini, Firenze University Press, Florence 2021, ISBN 978-88-5518-463-2
Academic responsibility for the website <vocilibereurss.fupress.net>
Since 2024, he has participated in the MedSlavGeo research project “Medicine in Eastern Slavic and Georgian Cultures”, project manager — Prof. Claudia Criveller, University of Padua;
Since 2021, member of the International Scientific Council of the scientific journal “Bulletin of the Tyumen State University”, “Humanitates”; https://vestnik.utmn.ru/humanitates/editorial-board/
Since 2023, member of the international Academic committee “Project for the Study of Dissidence and Samizdat. Electronic Archive” under the direction of Anna Komaromi, University of Toronto (Canada), https://samizdat.library.utoronto.ca/
Since 2023, member of the editorial board of the book series “Immigrant Worlds and Texts Series”. The editor of the series is Maxim D. Schraer, Boston College https://www.academicstudiespress.com/immigrant-worlds-texts/
Since 2024, he has been a member of the editorial board of the book series “Correnti d'incontro” (“Counter Currents”). The editor of the series is Prof. Andrey Shishkin (V. Ivanov Research Center in Rome, University of Salerno), series “Correnti d’incontro tra Russia ed Europa” — ISSN 3035-1960
Since 2025 — “Codex Manuscriptus” (Institute of World Literature, Moscow). In the editorial board of the international academic series “Codex Manuscriptus” ISSN 2949-0510 (print version) ISSN 2949-0502 (online version)
2019–2026 — Member of the International Scientific Committee of the academic journal “Open Journal of Humanities” ISSN 2612-6966; http://www.universitas-studiorum.it/1/open_journal_of_humanities_ojh_3131371.html
2019–2022 — Member of the Scientific Committee of the “Library of Slavic Studies” series, a scientific series founded on the initiative of the Italian Association of Slavists; Firenze University Press. ISSN 2612-7687 (print version), ISSN 2612-7679 (online);
Since 2024, he has been involved in a research project led by Prof. Luba Jurgenson from the Sorbonne University of Paris “Réception des répressions soviétiques dans les mondes culturels français et italien (1917–1987)”;
2020–2022 — “European Deformations of Luther's Religious and Political Lexicon: Germany and the Baltic States, France and Russia”. Participation in the PRA University project. The coordinator is Prof. Pietro U. Dini (University of Pisa).

Teaching activity:
Bachelor's and Master's degree programs.
Russian literature
Russian language and literary translation
The history of Russian culture
Doctoral program
Lectures and seminars on twentieth-century Russian literature and literary theory

Academic publications (26 in total, including 1 monograph):

Monographs:

Leningrado underground. Testi, poetiche, samizdat. Roma: Europa Orientalis, 2020. 522 p. https://doi.org/10.1400/282722

Collective works (editor)

Aleksandr Solženicyn, Una parola di verità, traduzioni / postfazione e note a cura di M. Sabbatini. Macerata: EUM; Collana Prolusioni, 2025. 217 p.
Il libro russo della gente e altri racconti di Vladimir Tučkov / a cura di M. Sabbatini, traduzioni di G. Emiliozzi, M. Sabbatini. Roma: Write up, 2025. 134 р.
Letteratura, dissenso, emigrazione. Studi sulla Russia in ricordo di C. Pieralli / a cura di M. Sabbatini, G. Siedina. Firenze: Firenze University Press, 2025. 282 р.
Fenomenologie della memoria / a cura di F. Rovai, M. Sabbatini. Pisa: Pisa University Press, 2025. 426 р.
Voci libere in URSS. Letteratura, pensiero, arti indipendenti in Unione Sovietica e gli echi in Occidente (1953–1991), [volume — portale web] / a cura di C. Pieralli, M. Sabbatini. Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2021–.

Articles:

Vizi di civiltà e virtù dello scrittore Solženicyn e Echi traduttivi // Aleksandr Solženicyn, Una parola di verità, traduzioni / postfazione e note a cura di M. Sabbatini. Macerata, EUM; Collana Prolusioni, 2025. Р. 147–216.
La Comes e il caso Sinjavskij-Daniėl’. La crisi della diplomazia culturale tra Italia e Urss nel 1966 // Letteratura, dissenso, emigrazione. Studi sulla Russia in ricordo di C. Pieralli / a cura di M. Sabbatini, G. Siedina. Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2025. Р. 187–204.
La letteratura russa contemporanea // Gli studi slavistici in Italia nell’ultimo trentennio (1991–2021). Bilanci e prospettive. Contributi presentati al VII Congresso Italiano di Slavistica / a cura di R. Benacchio, A. Ceccherelli, C. Diddi, S. Garzonio. Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2024. Vol. II. Р. 181–202.
Testo surrealista e animazione in Gennadij Špalikov e Andrej Chržanovskij // L’analisi linguistica e letteraria. 2024. Vol. XXXII, № 3. Р. 203–220.
https://doi.org/10.69117/ALL.2024.3.11
La letteratura russa contemporanea // Gli studi slavistici in Italia nell’ultimo trentennio (1991–2021). Bilanci e prospettive. Contributi presentati al VII Congresso Italiano di Slavistica / a cura di R. Benacchio, A. Ceccherelli, C. Diddi, S. Garzonio. Firenze: Firenze University Press, 2024. Vol. II. Р. 181–202. https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0492-7.11
Cultura decabrista e luteranesimo negli scritti dall’esilio di V.K. Kjuchel’beker // Viktor Krivulin, Stichi 1971–1972 gg. / a cura di A. Cerri, P. Malloggi. Novi ligure: Joker, 2023. Р. 151–169.
The Arsenal of Love. Russian Poetess Anna Akhmatova. “One Magnificent Quote...”: Collection of Articles and Materials on the 70^th Anniversary of N.I. Kraineva, comp. by Ya. Slepkov. Moscow, Azbukovnik Publ., 2023, pp. 181–187. (Co-authored with A. Cambria)
The Free and Unfree Word of Viktor Krivulin. Viktor Krivulin, Poems of 1971–1972, ed. by A. Katsman. Jerusalem; St. Petersburg, Philobiblon Publ., 2022, pp. 5–22.
Analysis of One Poem. Evgeny Kropivnitsky. “Sextines”. “Lianozov School”. Between Barrack Poetry and Russian Concretism, comp. by G. Zykova, V. Kulakov, M. Pavlovets. Moscow, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie Publ., 2021, pp. 254–264.
Anna Akhmatova and Giancarlo Vigorelli. About the Prehistory of the Italian Trip of 1964. Russian Poets of the Twentieth Century: Materials and Research. Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966). V.G. Petrova. Moscow, Azbukovnik Publ., 2021, pp. 355–363. https://doi.org/1031860/978-5-91172-216-6-355-363
Letteratura e identità novecentesca nel sistema d’istruzione della Russia post-sovietica // L’Ospite ingrato. 2021. Vol. 1, № 9. Р. 275–288.
La première réception de l’œuvre de Marina Tsvetaeva en Italie // Marina Tsvetaeva et l’Europe / еd. T. Victoroff, V. Chepiga. Paris: EAC éditions des archives contemporaines, 2021. Р. 265–271.
Dissent in the Works of Evgeny Arkadyevich Ananin. The Case of Marsilio Ficino and Dolcino / List of Archival Materials by Eugenio Anagnine at the Vyacheslav Ivanov Research Center in Rome. Russian Emigration in France and Medieval Culture of Europe, ed. by T. Viktorova, S. Dubrovina. Moscow, Solzhenitsyn House of Russia Abroad, 2020, pp. 56–76.
La poésie russe du XXIe siècle: une nouvelle Renaissance // Anthologie del la poésie russe au début du XXIe siècle / a cura di T. Victoroff. Paris, YMCA press, 2020. Р. 9–25. (Co-authored with T. Victoroff)
Viktor Nekrasov e la letteratura sovietica di Kiev // Italian-Ukrainian Contrastive Studies: Linguistics, Literature, Translation / a cura di S. Del Gaudio. Wiener Slawistischer Almanach. Sonderband. 2020. № 97, vol. 1. Р. 209–223.
Liminality and Italian Motifs in the Late Work of Elena Schwartz. Subject and Liminality in Modern Poetry. Berlin, Peter Lang Publ., 2020, pp. 149–158.
Dissenso estetico e resistenza culturale alle origini del Premio Andrej Belyj // Between. Vol. 10. Р. 407–433. https://doi.org/10.13125/2039-6597/4043
La Comunità europea degli scrittori e l’Urss dal disgelo agli anni Se ttanta // Mondo contemporaneo. № 2/3. C. 45–63. (Co-authored with E. Litvin)