Alessandro Turbil

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Dr Alessandro Turbil is Swiss Postdoctoral Fellow (SNSF) at the Romanisches Seminar of the University of Zurich and the Seminar für Romanische Philologie at the University of Göttingen. He currently leads the project 'Singers of Old Love' (2024–2026), funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, which explores the post-medieval afterlife of medieval lyric in Renaissance France, with a particular focus on the printed book market. Previously, he was LeStudium Fellow at the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance in Tours (2023–2024) and held a DAAD short-term fellowship at the Free University of Berlin (2022). From 2020 to 2022, he was postdoctoral fellow at the University of Turin, following a lectureship at the University of Tours (2018–2020), where he taught in the departments of Italian, French, and Comparative Literature. He received his Ph.D. in Literature and Linguistics in 2018 as part of a joint doctoral program between the University of Turin and Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3. His research interests lie in French literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, material bibliography, and the history of publishing and reading practices, particularly in the context of the transition from manuscript to print culture in early modern Europe.

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