Dr. Ugo Mondini pursued his academic education at the University of Milan. He completed a bachelor’s thesis in Classical Philology (2015), and then he moved to Byzantine literature with the purpose of understanding how the Greek language and literature evolved after antiquity (master, 2017; PhD, 2021). After a postdoctoral position at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna (2021–2), he is now Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Linguistics, Ghent University. From January 2023 he will be a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford.
He actively collaborates with the ERC CoG Project MELA. His project is a multidisciplinary reconsideration of (early) schedography, a teaching method of Greek grammar that was used for more than five hundred years (ca. 11th – 16th c.) and had a massive impact on text production. Meanwhile, he is finalizing the study of three Byzantine poets (Ioannes Mauropous, Michael Choniates, the Metaphrasis of the Psalms by Manuel Philes). He also researches Hellenistic (Kallimachos; Antipater Sidonios) and Imperial literature (Nonnos; Orphic literature; grammatical, metrical, and rhetorical treatises).