Dr. Giuseppe Eugenio Rallo holds a Bachelor's degree in Classics (2013) and a Master's degree in Ancient Studies (2015) from the University of Palermo, as well as a Ph.D. in Classics from the University of St Andrews (2017–2021). His research focuses on identity and gender studies, Greek and Roman fragmentary texts, and the history of Latin literature, with particular attention to the mid-Republican period. He has published extensively in Italian and international journals, contributed to edited volumes, and presented his work at national and international conferences. Since 2022, he has been a postdoctoral researcher in the ‘Versio Latina’ project at the University of Tübingen. He is currently a Researcher at the CECH – University of Coimbra.
Plano de investigação
Title: Who am I? Who are you? Identity Construction in Ancient and Modern Times
The main aim of Dr. Rallo’s research project is to investigate how identity is constructed through processes of differentiation in both ancient and modern contexts. By examining Roman drama as a primary source, the project explores how Romans in the mid-Republic defined themselves in contrast to others. This ancient perspective is then set in dialogue with modern debates on identity, drawing on insights from Classics, gender studies, political theory, anthropology, and sociology.
Publicações selecionadas
Rallo, G. E. (2025) Navigating the history of translation-adaptation: the case of La Sorella by Giambattista della Porta and Adelphe by Samuel Brooke, in Heideklang, J., Shavrin, J., and Wolkenhauer, A. (eds.), In die falsche Richtung?. Übersetzungskulturen der Frühen Neuzeit (Berlin), pp. 289-305.
Rallo, G. E. (2025), Ianua Orci. Rileggendo le Bacchides, ‘Commentaria Classica’, 12, pp. 65-82.
Rallo, G. E. (2024), Alcuni motivi della decadenza romana in Sallustio: Luxuria, Metus, e Invidia, ‘Bollettino degli Studi Latini’, 54, pp. 570-582.
Rallo, G. E. (2024), Nomen / Omen: the togata, its anthroponomy, and epigraphic evidence, in de la Escosura, M.C., Kurilic, A., and Rallo, G.E. (eds.) Name and Identity. Selected studies on ancient anthroponymy through the Mediterranean (Oxford), pp. 59-63.
Rallo, G. E. (2024), Laughing at domestica facta: Identity Construction in mid-Republican Rome through the lens of the Togata (Göttingen).
Rallo, G. E. (2023), The ‘Plautine’ Lexicon of the Togata. Some remarks, ‘Aeuum(Ant.)’, 97, pp. 91-99.
Rallo, G. E. (2023), The ‘Roman’ togata and its Greek influence: Memory, Space and Identity through the snippets of the togata, in Bianco, M.M., Cusumano, N., Melidone, C., and Rallo, G.E. (eds.), Memoria, Spazio, Identità in Grecia e a Roma (Palermo), pp. 155-166.
Rallo, G.E. (2022), The titles of Middle Comedy, New Comedy, and the Togata, ‘PAN’, 11, pp. 5-10.
Rallo, G. E. (2021), The Togata and some aspects of its ‘Roman’ lexicon. A preliminary note, in De Poli, M., Rallo, G.E., and Zimmermann, B. (eds.), Sub palliolo sordido. Studi sulla Commedia Frammentaria Greca e Latina. Studies on Greek and Roman Fragmentary Comedies (Göttingen), pp. 291-305.
Rallo, G. E. (2021), Introduction. Who needs death? Who cares about it? Some preliminary remarks, in Gorokhova, A., Rallo, G.E., and Read, C. (eds.), Afterlife: The life of the dead (Moscow), pp. 9-12.
Rallo, G. E. (2021), What does the term Togata ‘really’ mean?, ‘CQ’, 71, 1, pp. 216-229.