Unn Falkeid

Academic interests

• Late medieval and early modern intellectual history (1300–1700) 
• The nexus between politics, aesthetics, and theology in medieval and early modern Europe
• Late medieval political thought (Dante Alighieri, Marsilius of Padua, William of Ockham, Francis Petrarch, Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena)
• Religious reform movements
• Apocalyptic and utopian visions in late medieval and early modern Europe
• Women's contribution to early modern history of knowledge
• Renaissance women writers and philosophers
• Renaissance humanism and book history
• Respublica literaria (salons, academies, and virtual communities in the Italian Renaissance)

Education

• 2006: Ph.D. (Dr. art.) in Italian Literature, University of Oslo 
• 1994: MA (Cand. philol.) in Italian Studies, University of Oslo
• 1992: BA (Cand. mag.) in History of Ideas, Latin, and Italian Studies, University of Oslo.

Background

• From 2017: Professor, History of Ideas, University of Oslo
• 2016–2017: Associate Professor, History of Ideas, University of Oslo
• 2014–2016: Academy Research Fellow, The Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Stockholm
• 2008–2013: Postdoctoral Fellow, Italian Literature, University of Oslo 
• 2005–2008: Lecturer, Italian and comparative literature, University of Oslo
• 1998–2004: Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Oslo (on leave 2001–2002) 
• 2001–2002: Chief Editor of modern fictional literature, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag
• 1995–1998: Editor of general non-fictional literature, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag

Prizes, grants and fellowships

• Fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (from 2020)
• The Alberigo Senior Award 2019 (European Academy of Religion) for my book The The Avignon Papacy Contested. An Intellectual History from Dante to Catherine of Siena (Harvard University Press, 2017)
• The Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History 2018 (Society for Italian Historical Studies/American Historical Association) for The Avignon Papacy Contested. An Intellectual History from Dante to Catherine of Siena (Harvard University Press, 2017)
• Principal investigator and project manager for the interdisciplinary research project The Legacy of Birgitta of Sweden. Women, Politics and Reform in Renaissance Italy. The Research Council of Norway (2018-2021)
• Academy research scholarship from the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities (2014-2020)
• Premio "Il lauro dantesco", Centro Relazioni Culturali, Comune di Ravenna (2011)
• Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University (2010-2012)
• Fulbright visiting scholarship, Yale University (2010-2011)
• Leiv Eriksson mobility programme grant. The Research Council of Norway (2010-2011)
• Postdoctoral research scholarship from Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo (2008-2013)
• Doctoral research scholarship from Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo (1998--2004)

Appointments

• Editorial Board Member of Nordic Journal of Renaissance Studies (from 2021)
• Editorial Board Member of Scienza & Politica (from 2019)
• Editorial Board Member of Rivista internazionale di ricerche dantesche (Pisa: Fabrizio Serra) (from 2019)
• Editorial Board Member of I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance. Villa I Tatti. The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (from 2016) 
• Chair of The Norwegian Renaissance Society (from 2016)
• Editorial Board Member of Le Tre Corone. Rivista internazionale di studi su Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio (Pisa: Fabrizio Serra) (from 2012) 

Curriculum vitae

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Books