About the lecturer
Michele Curnis is a tenured professor of Medieval History in the Department of Humanities: History, Geography and Art at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). He holds a PhD in Classical Philology from the University of Turin (2004) and a PhD in Historical Sciences from the University of Genoa (2011). From 2015 to 2019, he was a CONEX research fellow at UC3M, and he has extensive international academic experience.
His research interests include the tradition of Aristotelian political thought in the ancient and medieval worlds, the history of the anthology genre (especially John Stobaeus), the historical dimension of the works of Alfonso X the Wise, and the works of Dante. In 2023, he founded the UC3M Seminar on Medieval Culture, which he currently directs and coordinates.