Rino Caputo
Crolla Amato Prize 2019 | Literary Studies
Panel Judge
Rino Caputo (Ischitella nel Gargano, 1947) is Docens Turris Virgatae and former full professor of Italian Literature at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
Rino has published essays and volumes on Dante, Petrarch, Giannone, Manzoni and the Italian early Romanticism, Pirandello, and on the Italian and North-American contemporary literary criticism.
He is a member of the Arcadia, the Dante Society of America, and the Centro Nazionale di Studi Leopardiani. He has given invited lectures and seminars at various Italian universities as well as at the most important international universities. He has also been Visiting Professor at the Universities of McGill and Toronto on several occasions.
He is Assessor for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada, and for many relevant international universities. He has taught History of Literature at Scuola Nazionale di Cinema and Cinecittà-Rome, and Analysis of Italian Literary Texts as well as Teaching Methodology of Italian Literature at the SISS Latium. He currently teaches Italian Linguistics as part of a Master in Journalism at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
He collaborates with the most prominent journals in Italian Studies. He is co-director of Dante. International Journal of Dante Studies, and director of the international journal Pirandelliana.
From 2003 to 2007 he was National President of ADI-SD. He is also on the ADI Board of Directors. Since November 2007 he has been the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Tor Vergata, and since October 2010 he has been the President of the Deans of the Italian Faculties of Humanities. Since July 2012, he has President of the Centro Studi Ars Nova di Letteratura e Musica in Certaldo (Florence). He is the recipient of the Premio Internazionale Pergamene Pirandello 2018.
