Matteo Schiavone

Research Assistant

Pronouns: he/they
Room: Werthmannstr. 6, 01 012
Office phone number: –
Email: matteo.schiavone@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de

Matteo Schiavone is a second-year master’s student in “English Literatures and Literary Theory” at the University of Freiburg. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English and French from the same university, and is currently working towards a master’s thesis on Romantic Medievalism and Gender.

Research interests:

Romanticism
Late Medieval literature
Medievalism
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Women Writers
Gender and Queer Studies

Employment:

Since 04/2022	Research Assistant English Department \| University of Freiburg Chair of English Literature, Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen
Since 01/2022	Research Assistant English Department \| University of Freiburg Chair of English Literature, Prof. Dr. Stefanie Lethbridge
01/2022 – 06/2024	Research Assistant SFB 948 : Helden – Heroisierungen – Heroismen University of Freiburg
01/2021 – 07/2022	Tutor Breisach am Rhein

Education:

09/2023	Academic Visitor Jesus College, University of Oxford
09/2020 – 07/2023	Bachelor of Arts (double major) in English and French University of Freiburg Final grade: 1.2 Thesis title: “L.E.L. The Golden Violet: The Woman Minstrel and Romantic Medievalist Poetry” Thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen

Awards, grants:

09/2023	Research Scolarship Bodleian Libraries (based at Jesus College), University of Oxford
07/2019	Honourable Mention Juvenes Translatores contest

List of Publications

Schiavone, Matteo et al. “‘Shakespeares Bibliotheken’: Jahrestagung in Weimar 21.-23. April 2023”, Report, Shakespeare Jahrbuch 160 (2024): 331-335.

Conference Papers

“He’s the Woman: Romantic Women Minstrels Undoing Gender”. The Games of Medievalism. International Society for the Studies of Medievalism, Hybrid – Montclaire State University/Seton Hall University (online participation), 9/07-11/07/2024.
“Coming to Light through the Shadow of the Byronic: L.E.L.’s Appropriation of Lord Byron’s Image”. Provocative and Provoking: Fifty Shades of Byron. Byron Society, Newstead Abbey, 26/04-27/04/2024.

Event organisation:

Summer term 2024 – Winter term 2024/25	Co-organisation of the Rainbow Talks (lecture series on queer topics)
Summer term 2023	Co-organisation of the Old English Book Club

Memberships:

British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS)
North American Association of Jane Austen
“Regenbogen Referat” of the University of Freiburg (person of trust in the academic year 2024/2025)

Teaching:

Summer term 2024

Tutorial, “Survey of English Literature I, from the Middle Ages to the 18^th Century”

Summer term 2023

Tutorial, “Introduction to Literary Studies”

Winter term 2021/22

Tutorial, French “Systemkompetenz” B2.2 & C1