Professor of Greek Literature at the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics
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Born in Tolentino (Macerata) on 12-12-1958, married, two daughters, Mauro Tulli graduated in Greek Literature at the Sapienza, University of Rome, in 1981. From 1983 to 1986 he was a PhD student in Greek and Latin Philology at the University of Florence, and in 1987 he obtained the title of PhD. From 1992 to 1995 he carried out research activities with the support of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung at the Universities of Cologne and Würzburg.

Since 1998 Associate Professor of Greek Grammar at the University of Pisa, since 2006 he has been Professor in the scientific area L-FIL-LET/02 at the Faculty of Humanities and Philosophy and since 2012 at the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics at the University of Pisa.

Insititutional assignments

Former President of the Degree Programme in Humanities, from 2012 to 2016 Mauro Tulli was Director of the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics and member of the Academic Senate at the University of Pisa. From 2016 to 2019 he coordinated the PhD Programme in Sciences of Antiquity and Archeology, and from 2022 he was appointed for the second tenure. Since 2006 he was member of Council of the scientific-area L-FIL-LET/02, formerly being part of the Board and later, since 2010, appointed as Secretary and Treasurer; from 2013 to 2019 he led the Council in continuous link with the Confederation of Archeology and Sciences of 'Antiquities. He has been a member of the National University Council since 2019, with the role of President of the “Area 10 Committee” and Coordinator of the I Commission, "Institutional policies, autonomy and reforms".

Scientific and teaching activity

Founder of the International Plato Society in 1989, Mauro Tulli led its activities from 2010 to 2013 as President, since 2013 as a member of the Executive Committee, since 2016 as member of the Advisory Committee. Member since 2007 of the Interuniversity Center GrAL, “Incontro di Culture”, he was then appointed as President (from 2012 to 2021).  Member of the International Center for the Study of the Herculaneum Papyri since 2010, and member of its Executive Committee since 2013. Former President of the Pisa Delegation and member of the National Committee of the Italian Association of Classical Culture (AICC), since 2014 he has been a member of the Institutional Committee of Guarantors for Classical Culture at the Italian Ministry of Education and University.

Director of the journal "Cronache Ercolanesi", and of the imprints "Biblioteca di Studi Antichi, “Diotima" at the Nomos Verlag, "La Scuola di Epicuro"; he is founder and director of the journal "Philologia Philosophica".

The result of its scientific activity is in more than 100 publications: in addition to the monographs, also numerous contributions published in Class A periodicals and in volumes of international importance. The research field involves the ancient tradition and the medieval tradition of texts, the epic, Hesiod, Parmenides, the relationship between literature and philosophy, the form of production of Plato, of Epicurus, the rhetoric of the classical age and the peripatetic biography.

Mauro Tulli teaches Greek Language and Literature in the Literature Degree Programme, has performed several contributions in preparatory schools for high school teachers and has carried out teaching activities in Papyrology, Classical Philology, Greek Literature, Greek Metrics and Rhythmics, History of Classical Rhetoric for the Degree Programme Philology and History of Antiquity at the University of Pisa.