Dr. Giovanna Rocca

Professore Ordinario di Linguistica
Facoltà di Interpretariato, traduzione e studi linguistici e culturali Università IULM

CURRICULUM VITAE

Giovanna Rocca graduated in Classics at the University of Milan in 1982, with a thesis entitled “Sopravvivenze micenee nel dorico” (Mycenaean elements surviving in Doric).

She completed a Ph.D. in Latin-Italic Philology, with a dissertation entitled “Umbricità e sabinità: le iscrizioni umbre minori” (“Umbricity” and “Sabinity”: minor Umbrian inscriptions”) (jointly conferred by the University of Sassari, University of Genoa, University of Aquila).

She is Full Professor of Linguistics, in the Faculty of Interpretariato, traduzione e studi linguistici e culturali (Interpreting, Translation, Linguistic and Cultural Studies), at the IULM University (Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM), Milan (Italy), where she is currently engaged as Prorettore alla Ricerca (Vice Rector for Research) and Director of the Department of Humanities.

She coordinated the Ph.D. course in the Linguistic History of the Ancient Mediterranean (IULM University).

She is a member of SIG (the Italian Society of Historical Linguistics), “Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese” (The Milanese society of Historical Linguistics) and Association Internationale d’Épigraphie Grecque et Latine (AIEGL).

She participates in the “From Tablet to Tablet” research project, financed by the Department of IULM University.

She is the scientific director of the research project ILA (“Iscrizioni Latine Arcaiche”), financed by IULM University with funds allocated for special research projects.

She is a member of the scientific committee of the Digital Epigraphy and Archaeology project of the University of Florida.

She is a component of the international Scientific Committee of the peer-reviewed series “Lettres Orientales et Classiques”, Peeters ed. (Université libre de Bruxelles).

She collaborates as a linguist with research on Palmyra, and has participated in the archaeological mission of the University of Milan to Palmyra (Syria), directed by Maria Teresa Grassi.

Areas of Scientific Interest

Her first studies were devoted to the Doric linguistic tradition and its relationship with Mycenaean and Armenian, examined, in particular, through a lexical comparison with neighbouring areas (especially Iran and Greece), from a both a linguistic and a literary perspective.

She later focused on the Italic cultures, combining her knowledge of historical linguistics with a closer attention to epigraphy, antiquity and archaeology. She has recently been concerned with the editing of an unpublished corpus of Greek inscriptions from Sicily (comprising defixiones, votive texts and epodai).

Teaching

Her recent courses held at IULM University include:

– Principles of Linguistics

– Historical linguistics

– Ethnolinguistics

– Laboratory of writing for communication in business

– Sociolinguistcs

– Theatre areas in the ancient world

Publications

Her principal publications include:

Nuove iscrizioni da Selinunte, Edizioni dell’Orso, Alessandria, 2009.

Ἱεροὶ λόγοι dal mondo greco e magno greco, Atti del XLIX Convegno Internazionale di Studi sulla Magna Grecia La vigna di Dioniso. Vite, vino e culti in Magna Grecia, Taranto 24-28 settembre 2009, Istituto per la storia e l’archeologia della Magna Grecia, Taranto 2011, pp. 335-350.

Una nuova iscrizione selinuntina, in V. Orioles (a c. di), Per Roberto Gusmani. Linguistica storica e teorica. Studi in ricordo, vol. II, Udine, Forum, 2012, 397 – 407.

Some remarks on the interference between Onomastics and Lexis, in J.L. Garcia Ramon, D. Koelligan, P. Poccetti (a c. di), Sprachkontakt und Kulturkontakt im Alten Italien: Onomastik und Lexikon. 10 Jahre nach Jürgen Untermanns Wörterbuch des Oskisch-Umbrischen, Linguarum Varietas 2, 2013, Pisa-Roma, Fabrizio Serra, 2013, pp. 223-233.

Clusia Topia in M. Muscariello (a c. di), Philoin, Scritti in onore di M. Enrietti e R. Gendre, Edizioni dell’Orso, Alessandria, 6-7, 2012-2013, pp. 487-491.

David R. Jordan – Giovanna Rocca – Leslie Threatte, Una nuova defixio dalla Sicilia (Schøyen Collection MS 1700), Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 188, 2014, pp. 231–236.

The Lapis Satricanus as evidence of an Italic writing context in the Latium vetus? Par. 1 e 3, in R. Giacomelli-A. Robbiati Bianchi (a c. di) ‘Lasciamo parlare i testi’, Incontro di studio n. 29 maggio 2007, Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e lettere, Milano 2014, pp. 152-156 e 163-170.

Rocca -D. Jordan – L. Threatte Una nuova iscrizione (dalla Sicilia?), in Offentlichkeit – Monument- Text, XIV Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae. Akten (W. Eck- P. Funke und all. hsg.), Berlin 27-31 agosto 2012, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston, 2014, pp. 548-550.

Negri- G. Rocca, Ancora sull’incipit del Cippo del Foro, Incontri Linguistici 38, 2015, pp. 139-144 e 147-157.

Les defixiones siciliennes : aspects publics et privés, in E. Dupraz – W. Sowa, (a c. di), Genres épigraphiques et langues d’attestation fragmentaire dans l’espace méditerranéen, Cahiers de l’ERIAC 9 – Fonctionnements linguistiques, Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2015, pp. 305-313.

Una lamina aurea dalla collezione Schøyen (MS 5236), Alessandria 8, 2014 [2015], pp. 125-136.

De nouvelles inscriptions grecques de Palmyre, in M.T. Grassi – G. Rocca – D. Piacentini, Les nouveautés épigraphiques de la Mission Archéologique Italo-Syrienne de Palmyre, Lanx. Rivista della Scuola di Specializzazione in Archeologia – Università degli Studi di Milano, Anno VIII, 20, 2015, pp. 7-17 (ISSN 2035-4797, http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/lanx/index).

Argei: sacrifici rituali nella Roma arcaica?, Pasiphae 9, 2015, pp. 143-150.

Argei, AION 5, 2016, pp. 145-166.

Divinità sabine? In A. Ancillotti – A. Calderini – R. Massarelli (a c. di), Forme e strutture della religione nell’Italia mediana antica, Forms and Structures of Religion in ancient central Italy, III Convegno Internazionale dell’Istituto di Ricerche e Documentazione sugli Antichi Umbri, Perugia-Gubbio 21-25 settembre 2011, Roma, «L’Erma» di Bretschneider, 2016, pp. 617-624.

Nuova lettura dell’iscrizione sul Cippo del Foro, Alessandria 10, 2016, pp. 3-6.

The digital edition of the archaic latin inscriptions (7th-5th century B.C.) in S. Orlandi – R. Santucci – F. Mambrini – P. Liuzzo (a c. di) Digital and Traditional Epigraphy in Context, Proceedings of the Eagle 2016 International Conference, Antichistica, 36, 2017, pp. 67-72.

Sacer nelle iscrizioni umbre in Th. Lanfranchi (a c. di), Autour de la notion de sacer, Collection de l’École française de Rome | 541, Publications de l’École française de Rome, Rome 2017, Publication sur OpenEdition Books: 18 juillet 2017, pp. 1-30.

Secespita, in I. Hajnal – D. Kölligan- K. Zipser (a c. di), Miscellanea Indogermanica, Festschrift für José Luis García Ramón zum 65. Geburtstag, Innsbruck, Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, 2017, pp. 705-713.

Riflessioni e ricordi intorno al Maestro, Alessandria 11, 2017, pp. 1-5.

Vittore Pisani, il latino arcaico e l’umbro, Alessandria 11, 2017, pp. 191-20.