Giuseppe Pezzini
Professor Giuseppe Pezzini is tutorial fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, which he joined in 2021 after five beautiful years of teaching in St. Andrews (2016–2021) and research fellowships at Magdalen College, Oxford (2013–2015), and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2016). He worked as an assistant editor for the Oxford Dictionary of Medieval Latin until its completion and has published especially on Latin language and literature, philosophy of language, the reception of the Classics, and the theory of fiction, ancient and modern. His publications include five books, including a monograph on Tolkien’s theory of fiction (currently in print with Cambridge University Press), four edited volumes, and more than fifty peer-reviewed articles. Prof. Pezzini is also the Tolkien Editor for the Journal of Inklings Studies, one of the founders of the Oxford Tolkien Network, a research center based in the University of Oxford, and a member of the Young Academy of Europe. He curated exhibitions on John Henry Newman (2011, 2014), Oscar Wilde (2015), and Tolkien (2021).