CURRENT POSITION
Donata Bulotta is Associate Professor of Germanic Philology and Linguistics at the Department of Humanities, University of Calabria
She holds the contract for official course in German Culture II - Linguistic Variation of the German Language (SSD L-LIN/13), of the Course of Studies in Mediation, Interpreting and Intercultural Communication at IULM University of Milan
LINES OF RESEARCH
Donata Bulotta works on Germanic linguistics and medieval culture, with a focus on the lexical dynamics of ancient Germanic languages, including Old and Middle High German (D. Bulotta, Helmbrecht's Cap and its Meta-Literary Hints, "Open Journal of Humanities," 13 (2023), pp. 119-145, ISSN 2612-6966), and Old and Middle English ("The Second Death" Between Praise and Grace: From the " Canticle of Brother Sun" to the Middle English Poem "Pearl," The Canticle of Matter: Franciscan Paths between Alchemy and Science, "Franciscan Studies," 122/3-4, (2025), pp. 663-677).
A further area of research concerns the social, economic and political role of women in Anglo-Norman society and the representation of the feminine in literary production between the 12th and 15th centuries. On this topic she has published, in addition to a series of articles, a monograph entitled: "Like the sea" now and then: women and satire in the English Middle Ages, Morlacchi Editore UP, Perugia 2018.
In parallel, Donata Bulotta is concerned with the relations between science, morality and theology in medieval England. This includes studies on collections of recipes and healing charms and on alchemical practices, analyzed in the tension between Anglo-Saxon tradition and innovations of foreign origin. Publications regarding this topic include From Medieval Alchemy to the Quest for the Absolute: The Evolution of Knowledge in the Figure of Faust, InterArtes [online], no. 7, "Faust, Myth of Modernity" (December 2025), pp. 1-22; A New Cover Name for Latin 'Mercurius' in SomeFifteenth-CenturyEnglish Alchemical Recipes, "International Journal of the Classical Tradition," 30/2 (2023), pp. 139-155; Middle English Magical Formulas of the Fifteenth Century Between Conventionality and Innovation, in "Filologia Germanica / Germanic Philology," 13 (2021), pp. 45-70.
DISCIPLINARY GROUP
GERM-01/A - Germanic Philology and Linguistics
SC: 10/M1 - Germanic Languages, Literatures and Cultures
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