Education

• Since 2021: Habilitation in Classical and Late Antique Philology
• 07.2018: Research Fellow, NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA
• 10.2016–06.2017: Research Fellow, Ernst Mach Grant – Ernst Mach Worldwide Scholarship (FWF), University of Innsbruck, Austria. Project: “The Demosthenic Declamations of Libanius”
• 2016: Successful candidate in the national competition for teaching positions in talian State Schools: Italian Literature (AD04/A012) – Italian Language, History, and Geography (AD04/A022)
• 2015: Training in Greek Paleography, Vatican School of Paleography, Diplomatics and
  Archival Studies, Vatican City State
• 2013: Secondary Teaching Qualification (TFA) in Classical Languages and Humanities,
  University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy
• 10.2012: Research Fellow, IRHT – Section grecque et de l’Orient chrétien, Collège de France, Paris, France
• 2011: Postgraduate Specialized Training in Communication and Didactics of Classical, Late Antique, and Christian Tradition, University of Bari, Italy
• 01.2009: Research Fellow, CEDANT, IUSS – Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori, Collegio Borromeo, Pavia, Italy
• 2007–2010: PhD in Classical Philology, University of Basilicata, Italy
• 03–11.2008: Erasmus Research Fellow, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany
• 2005–2007: MA in Classical Philology, University of Basilicata, Italy
• 2003–2005: BA in Classical Philology, University of Basilicata, Italy
• 1998–2002: High School Diploma, Liceo-Ginnasio Quinto Orazio Flacco, Potenza, Italy

Work History

• Since 10.2024: Postdoctoral Researcher (100%), START Project “LAGOOS: A Life in Ancient
• Greek. The ‘Secret’ Diary of K. B. Hase” (Y 1519-G)
• 10.2023–09.2024: Postdoctoral Researcher (100%), University of Basilicata, Italy. Project: “Tech4You – Technologies for Climate Change Adaptation and Quality of Life Improvement”, Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR)
• 09.2022–09.2023 – Teacher of Italian Language and History, IIS “C. Cattaneo”, Milan, Italy
• 01.2020–07.2022: Project Leader (100%), Lise Meitner Program (M2866-GBL), “New Light on Ancient Rhetoric: Byzantine Ms. Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 58.24”
• 2018–2020 – Teacher of Italian Language and History, IIS “G. Gasparrini”, Melfi, Italy

Teaching Experience (University Level)

• 2010–2024: Lecturer, University of Basilicata, Department of Classical Philology
  → Courses taught (BA/MA level):
  • Latin Language (2014, 2015, 2018, 2024): grammar, syntax, translation; dependency grammar approach
  • Greek Language (2012, 2013, 2015, 2024): grammar, syntax, translation; dependency grammar approach
  • Greek Literature in Late Antiquity (2014): School of Gaza, Libanius, rhetorical
    traditions
  • Greek Civilization, Language, and Literature (2018): Late Antique rhetoric and
    historiography
  • Didactics of Classical Languages (2013): pedagogy, text analysis, translation

Grants

• 2020-2022 Principal Investigator within the Lise Meitner Program (2020-2022), founded by the FWF in collaboration with Prof. Dr. M. Korenjak (University of Innsbruck), Austria. Funding amount: € 172,760.00
• 2018 Summer Scholarship in “Digital Editions, Digital Corpora and New Possibilities for the Humanities in the Academy and Beyond”, financed by the NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA
• 2016 Ernst Mach Grant, Ernst Mach – worldwide Scholarship financed by Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy – BMWFW, Innsbruck, Austria
• 2009 CEDANT Fellowship, IUSS – Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori, Collegio Borromeo, Pavia, Italy
• 2008 Erasmus Fellowship, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany

Academic Committees

• 2016: Member of the PhD Dissertations Committees for:
  • C. Manzione, Il Rhetor di Coricio di Gaza (op. XLII Foerster / Richtsteig). Società e scuola a Gaza nel tardo antico, (October 2016 Université de Nantes)
  • M. Deroma, L’École Rhétorique de Gaza aux Ve-VIe siècles de notre ère : le Patroclus de Chorikios. Étude historique et littéraire, traduction et commentaire (October 2016 Université de Nantes)

Digital and Technical Skills

• Digital Humanities & Scholarly Editing – Transcription, correction, and digital publication of manuscripts using Transkribus (HTR+); encoding in TEI/XML.
• Annotation & Data Structuring – Experience in preparing structured datasets and annotated corpora for philological research (Aracne framework; LOD implementation in collaboration with technical experts).
• Collaboration Platforms & Project Management – Advanced user of Zotero and GitHub for collaborative research workflows.
• Office & Editing Software – Proficient in Microsoft Office, LaTeX, and Adobe Acrobat Pro.

Professional Services

• 2020: Member of the editorial board of Akribos Anaginoskerin, Collana di Filologia Classica, DiSU, University Press of Basilicata, Italy.

Professional Membership

• Association “Textes pour l’histoire de l’Antiquité tardive”
• Society for Classical Studies

Language Skills

• Italian – native speaker
• English – fluent (C1)
• French – proficient reading and speaking skills (B2)
• German – intermediate (B1)
• Modern Greek – basic knowledge (A1)

• Rhetoric of Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Period
• The School of Gaza
• Material Culture and Social History of Antiquity
• History of Classical Philology
• Postcolonial Studies
• Scholarly Writing Practices (Diaries, Self-Fashioning, Intellectual Identity)

Books (forthcoming & published)

• La Collezione di Metabaseis del Laur. Plut. 58.24, University Press of Basilicata, University Press of Basilicata (forthcoming)
• Choricios de Gaza, Épithalame pour Zacharie (op. V) et Épithalame pour Procope, Jean et Élien (op. VI), texte établi, introduit et commenté par Ch. Telesca, traduit par N. Sauterel, Les Belles Lettres : Collection des universités de France (CUF) Série grecque, (ISSN 0184-7155. Série grecque : 390), 2018

Edited Volumes (Published)

• R. Cantore, C. Benvenuto, V. D’Urso, C. Telesca (eds.), Il Latino e la sua eredità: due incontri di studio per la Giornata Mondiale del Latino, Akribos anaginoskein 3, University Press of Basilicata (PUB) 2024
• R. Cantore, F. Montemurro, C. Telesca (eds.), Mira varietas lectionum, Akribos anaginoskein 2, University Press of Basilicata (PUB) 2021. ISBN: 978-88-31309-14-1 (DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-31309-14-1)

Edited Volumes (Forthcoming)

• Orality, Aurality, and Literacy in “Late Late Antiquity” (450–700 CE), Akribos anaginoskein 4, University Press of Basilicata (PUB) (forthcoming)
• Diaries of Scholarship. Comparative Perspectives on Diary-writing in Early Modern and Modern Europe, Terminus. Journal of Early Modern Literature and Culture (forthcoming, expected 2026)

Articles (Published)

• Karl Benedikt Hase’s Journey to Algeria. Notes from the Diary of 1839, International Journal of the Classical Tradition 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12138-025-00725-0)
• Il περὶ ἐγκλιτικῶν dello Ps.-Arcadio nel Laur. Plut. 58.24. in R. Cantore – C. Telesca – F.
  Montemurro (eds.), Mira Varietas lectionum. Akribos Anaginoskein, University Press of Basilicata 2021, pp. 21–49
• Il canto del cigno della collezione di Metabaseis del Laur. Plut. 58.24, «RET» 10, 2020-2021, pp. 51–71
• I Lidi di Coricio (Decl. XIV F.) e il problema della παρρησία nell’età giustinianea, «MEG» 20, 2020, pp. 261–280
• L’uso delle fonti nelle declamazioni storiche: il caso dell’Invectiva in Aeschinem di Libanio (decl. XVII F.), «PhA» 13, 2020, pp. 43–53
• Il Filottete di Sofocle e la riscrittura di Pavese ai tempi del confino, «Leukanikà» 1-2, 2019, pp. 41–50
• Examples of Comparationes in the Metabaseis Collection of ms. Laur. Plu. 58.24, «Rhetorica» 37/4, 2019, pp. 382–401
• Marginalia autografi di Erwin Rohde in un articolo coriciano, «QS» 42, 86/2, 2017, pp. 231–239
• Erudizione e realtà sociale negli Epitalami di Corcio di Gaza in E. Amato – A. Corcella – D. Lauritzen
• L’École de Gaza (eds.) : espace littéraire et identité culturelle dans l’Antiquité Tardive, Actes du Colloque international (Collège de France, Paris 23–25 mai 2013), in «Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta – Bibliothèque de ‘Byzantion’» (Peeters), 2017, pp. 53–71
• La teoria delle Staseis in Libanio. Decl. XVII/F.: un caso singolare?, in E. Amato – P. De Cicco – T. Moreau, Canistrum ficis plenum. Hommages pour Bertrand Lançon, «RET» Suppl. 5, 2016-2017, pp. 383–398
• E. Amato – C. Telesca, L’Encomio per Summo di Coricio di Gaza (Op. IV F./R.): I. L’Encomio per Summo di Coricio di Gaza (op. IV F./R.): testo, traduzione e commento (E. A.); II. Operazioni militari in Palestina nel ricordo biografico di un dux palestinese: L’Encomio per Summo di Coricio di Gaza (Op. IV F.-R.) (C. T.) «Philologia Antiqua» 9, 2016, pp. 69–102
• Su una metafora pindarica nellʼorazione Sui Brumalia di Coricio di Gaza (Op. XIII [dial.7]F./R.) in E. Amato – L. Thévenet – G. Ventrella (eds.), Discorso pubblico e declamazione scolastica a Gaza nella tarda antichità: Coricio di Gaza e la sua opera, Atti della giornata di studio, Nantes 6 giugno 2014, Bari 2014, pp. 100–111
• Contributi al testo di Coricio di Gaza nell’epistolario di Richard Foerster, «Eikasmós» XXV, 2014, pp. 241–255
• Missioni francesi in Spagna alla scoperta del codice di Madrid 4641, «QS» LXXIX, 2014, pp. 165–177
• Celebrazioni nuziali e performance oratoria negli Epitalami di Coricio di Gaza, «MEG» XIII, 2013, pp. 251–271
• Sull’ordine e la composizione del corpus di Coricio di Gaza, «RET» 1, 2011-2012, pp. 85–109

Articles (Forthcoming/In Preparation/Under review)

• L’inscription latine de l’obélisque de Louxor: Charles Benoît Hase et l’écriture épigraphique du pouvoir sous Louis-Philippe (under review at Revue des Études Latines)
• Private Pages, Public Persona: K. B. Hase and the Construction of an Intellectual Identity (1825, 1837, 1839) in Diaries of Scholarship. Comparative Perspectives on Diary-writing in Early Modern and Modern Europe, Terminus. Journal of Early Modern Literature and Culture (forthcoming, expected 2026)
• Karl Benedikt Hase and the Beginnings of Epigraphic Collection in Colonial Algeria, Archiv für Epigraphik (forthcoming, expected 2026)
• Ἰκόσιον or Iomnium? Rethinking a Toponymic Misstep in K. Benedikt Hase and 19th-Century Historical Geography (in preparation)
• Karl Benedikt Hase’s Epistolary Practice and the Construction of Scholarly Identity (in preparation)
• Echoes of orality in a Byzantine Rhetorical Collection of Metabaseis (Laur. Plut. 58.24), in Orality, Aurality, and Literacy in “Late Late Antiquity” (450–700 CE), Akribos anaginoskein, University Press of Basilicata (PUB) (forthcoming)
• Tracce di un perduto panegirico nella raccolta di Metabaseis del Laur. Plut. 58.24, Akribos anaginoskein, University Press of Basilicata (PUB) (forthcoming, expected 2026)
• The Transmission of Choricius of Gaza in Überlieferung der antiken griechischen Literatur. Ein Handbuch, P. Isépy and A. Cohen-Skalli (eds.) Stuttgart, Metzler Verlag (forthcoming, invited contribution, expected 2026)

Digital Scholarly Editions

• LAGOOS Project – University of Innsbruck
  • These digital editions were developed within the LAGOOS project (University of Innsbruck), focusing on the transcription, encoding, and publication of Karl Benedikt Hase’s unpublished diaries.
  • W. M. Barton, M. Hrynevych, L. Shadrin, and C. Telesca (eds.) The Secret Diary of K. B. Hase, vol. 1840 (03.2026)
    • (eds.) The Secret Diary of K. B. Hase, vol. 1839 (10.2025)
    • (eds.) The Secret Diary of K. B. Hase, vol. 1837 (07.2025)
    • (eds.) The Secret Diary of K. B. Hase, vol. 1825 (01.2025)
  • https://app.transkribus.org/sites/lagoos

• PNRR Project – University of Basilicata
  • This digital edition was developed within the “Tech4You Innovation Ecosystem Program” (University of Basilicata, PNRR), focusing on the preservation and digital enhancement of Greek and Latin sources related to the ancient geography of Magna Graecia, with particular attention to Lucania and Bruttium and their indigenous communities.
    • C. Telesca (ed.) (2024). I percorsi della Basilicata. Le fonti greche e latine.
      Developed on the “Aracne” framework (Dr. A. Cosco) this digital anthology collects Greek and Latin sources concerning the indigenous communities of Lucania and Bruttium in pre-Roman Magna Graecia.
    • Based on F. Cordano’s Fonti greche e latine per la storia dei Lucani e Brettii (1971), the corpus—encompassing 43 authors—has been critically revised according to current editions and digitally adapted with translations, semantic tagging, and bibliographical annotations to enhance accessibility and contextual understanding.

• Thinking Greek Continuity before Historicism: K. B. Hase and J.-B.-G. d’Ansse de Villoison, paper presented at the conference “καὶ κράτος νέμοι γυναιξίν (Aischyl. Suppl. 1068f.): 2. Tagung des Frauen*netzwerks in der Klassischen Philologie”, University of Potsdam, 25–27 March 2026 (organised by Hannah Brandenburg, Marieke Fleck, Sophia Häberle, Samantha Philips).
• Navigating Colonialism and Scholarship: Karl Benedikt Hase’s Journey to Algiers through His ‘Secret Diary’, The Postclassical Maghreb, paper presented at the Society for Classical Studies 157th Annual Meeting, organized by Kyle Khellaf (University of California, Riverside) and Sonia Sabnis (Reed College), San Francisco, CA, January 7–10, 2026
• Echoes of orality in a Byzantine Rhetorical Collection of Metabaseis (Laur. Plut. 58.24), Orality, Aurality, and Literacy in “Late Late Antiquity” (450–700 CE), organized by M. Bauer- Zetzmann, S. Ellinger, R. Stigliano, C. Telesca University of Innsbruck and Online, October 16–18, 2025
• Karl Benedikt Hase’s Epistolary Practice and the Construction of Scholarly Identity, Epistolography, knowledge, and the Ancient World, University of Bucharest, October 3-4, 2025
• Private Pages, Public Persona: K. B. Hase and the Construction of an Intellectual Identity (1825, 1837, 1839), Diaries of Scholarship. Comparative Perspectives on Diary-writing in Early Modern and Modern Europe, organized by C. Telesca, University of Innsbruck (Austria), September 19, 2025
• Traces of a Lost Panegyric in a rhetorical collection of ms. Laur. Plut. 58.24: New Insights from a neglected Manuscript, “Volturnia”, Wien, June 12–14, 2025
• Tracce di un inedito panegirico nella raccolta di Metabaseis del Laur. Plut. 58.24, Thesaurus insignis, non liber. Nuove ricerche sul Laurenziano Plut. 58.24”, Matera – Università degli studi della Basilicata, September 6–7, 2024
• Laur. Plut. 58.24: a precious collection of unknown texts: New Rhetorical Texts, In the Name of the Rose: Searching for Unknown, Lost, and Forgotten Ancient Texts”, organized by R. Burri, (Universität Bern), Istituto Svizzero di Rome, Sept. 30 – Oct. 1, 2021
• The Atticism of Libanius, Correctness in Comparison Negotiating linguistic norms in Greek from the Imperial Roman until the Later Byzantine period (I – XV AD), organized by A. M. Cuomo (IMAFO/ABF) and K. Bentein (University of Ghent), Vienna, Institute for Medieval Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, June 18–19, 2021
• Workshop on “The School of Gaza”, University of Matera (Italy) and Conservatoire of Matera, September 15–16, 2016, Matera, Italy
• A scuola dai retori di Gaza, “Una Scuola Buona. Passato, presente e futuro dell’insegnamento umanistico. Sezione scientifica. Percorso storico dell’insegnamento umanistico dall’antichità all’epoca contemporanea”, November 22, 2017, Università degli Studi della Basilicata, (DiSU), Potenza, Italy
• Su una metafora pindarica nell’orazione Sui Brumalia di Coricio di Gaza, Journées scientifiques 2014, Discours public et déclamation scolaire à Gaza dans l’antiquité tardive : Chorikios de Gaza et son oeuvre, 6/06/2014, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France
• Erudizione e realtà sociale negli Epitalami di Coricio di Gaza, International Colloquium: L’École de Gaza : espace littéraire et identité culturelle dans l’Antiquité Tardive, Collège de France (CHCB), Paris, May 23–25, 2013, France