Full name:Emilia Oddo
Date of birth:January 31, 1980
Nationality:Italian
Home Address:431 Probasco St., Cincinnati – OH, 45220
Languages:
Italian, mother tongue;
English, very fluent (TOEFL); certification of Academic English, issued by the Instituut voor Levende Talen (ILT), Leuven;
French, very fluent, (DALF, Diplôme approfondi de langue française, issued by the Ministère de l’éducation nationale, France, and obtained at the Centre Culturel Français, Palermo, Italy, on May 2006);
German: one intensive basic individual course in June 2006 at the Goethe Institut, Palermo; one course (Duits Stap 2) at the Centrum voor Levende Talen (CLT),Leuven;
Modern Greek, basic knowledge (several cultural trips to Greece since 1998).
Education
University of Cincinnati – Ohio, USA (Sept. 2007 to present)
•PhD candidate in Aegean Prehistory
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven – Leuven, Belgium ( Sept. 2006 – June 2007)
•Master in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology
Title of the final dissertation: Pre- to Proto-Palatial - Evolution or Revolution? Proposing a New Methodology for Examining Technological Adaptations in Minoan Crete (Promotor: Professor Jan Driessen)
Grade obtained: Cum Laude
University of Palermo – Palermo, Italy (Nov. 1998 – Dec. 2004)
•Degree in Classics
Major in Greek (specialistic field: History of the Greek language)
Title of the final dissertation: The Enigma of Linear A - History of studies
Grade obtained: 1st class, Magna Cum Laude (110/110 cum laude)
University of Paris 7 “Denis Diderot” – Paris, France (Nov. 2001 – June 2002)
•Erasmus project (topics: Theories of Language, Latin Grammar; short dissertation about the “Conceptions of the Greek verbal system: the aspectual functions”)
Liceo classico Giuseppe Garibaldi – Palermo, Italy (Sept. 1993 – July 1998)
•“Maturità classica,” obtained with the grade 54/60
Fieldwork
Mitrou Archaeological Project (University of Tennessee) – Mitrou (Tragana), Greece (June 15 - August 3, 2005)
•Basic field school student.
•Lecturer for the advanced field school students: “Linear A and its archaeological context.”
Related Work Experiences
University of Cincinnati – Ohio, USA (2007)
•Assistant Editor. “Nestor: Bibliography of Aegean Prehistory and Related Areas.”
Other Activities
Cambridge University – Cambridge, United Kingdom (July 7-10 2005)
•“GLIEP Conference: Greek and Latin from an Indo-European Perspective” international meeting around linguistic comparison - (scholarship) - .
European Network of Research and Documentation of Performances of Ancient Greek Drama (Oxford University) – Epidavros, Greece (July 2003)
•“Intensive Course on the Study and Performance of Ancient Greek Drama”: series of conferences on the domain of the classical dramatic representations (mainly in Greece); collaboration with the Università di Palermo and presentation of a paper based on the setting up of the classical tragedies in Gibellina (Sicily) during the 1980s.
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris IV- Sorbonne) – Paris, France (Nov. 2001 - Mai 2002)
•Auditeur de Conférence: “Grammaire comparée des langues Indo-Européennes- L’apophonie : études de textes gothiques”, held by Professor Charles de Lamberterie
•Auditeur de Conférence: “Egyptien. Traditions textuelles et registres de langue : questions de grammaire et de linguistique”, held by Professor Pascal Vernus
•Auditeur de Conférence: “Philologie Biblique et Targoumique : les schémas nominaux de l’hébreu biblique”, held by Professor Jean Margain
Facoltà Teologica – Palermo, Italy (October 2000 - February 2001)
•Biblical Hebrew : undergraduate course on basics of Hebrew language.
Academic Awards and Fellowships
•2007: Louise Semple-Taft Fellowship, University of Cincinnati
•2007: University Graduate Scholarship, University of Cincinnati
•Febr. 2007: Scholarship For Improvement of Scientific Studies Abroad, University of Palermo, Italy
Papers Presented in Conference
•Nov. 2007: “An Electronic Corpus of Linear A: Introduction to a Database Project,” presented in the occasion of the Electronic Corpora of Ancient Languages conference, in Prague November 16th-17th 2007.
Publications
•“An Electronic Corpus of Linear A: Introduction to a Database Project,” in press.
•L’Enigma della Lineare A. Storia degli Studi 1- La scuola di Arthur Evans: Il dibattito prima degli anni ‘50 (published in PAN 23, 2005 – Annual Review of Classical and Mediterranean Antiquity of the University of Palermo, pp. 5-27). Ondine PDF version: http://www.unipa.it/dicem/html/pubblicazioni/pan2005/1-Oddo.pdf
