Update: September 16, 2025

 

CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal Information


Overview

Luca Milasi earned his Ph.D. from Sapienza University of Rome, focusing on Early Modern Japanese Writers and Chinese literature. He also holds a summa cum laude Master's degree in Oriental Languages and Civilizations from the same institution. Milasi has extensive teaching experience in Japanese language and culture, Japanese philology and palaeography, and Korean philology. He has served as an adjunct professor (2010–2012), assistant professor (2012–2019), and associate professor (2019–2025) at Sapienza University. His international experience includes visiting professorships at the University of Tokyo (2020), where he taught translation theory, and at Hanyang University (2023), where he researched medieval Korean language and literary genres. Milasi has been an active member of the doctoral board at Sapienza and supervises numerous doctoral and master's theses. His research interests encompass classical and modern literature, comparative linguistic studies, and the intersection of literature and history. He has participated in international archival projects on Christianity in Asia, such as the Marega Project, and received a Toshiba International Foundation Grant for his work on teaching methods for Japanese historical documents' language and notation. Dr. Milasi is a member of the editorial board of the Rivista degli Studi Orientali and has served on organising committees for international symposia funded by the Japan Foundation and the Academy of Korean Studies. His academic contributions have been recognised through various grants and awards.

 

Track Record & Recognition


Recent Academic Activities

 

Images of Korea and Europe: Archival Collections and the Shifting Perspective on Korea from Pre-Modern Times to Early Modernity, held Dec. 14 to 17, 2024, was part of a multi-year project funded by the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS), Advanced Seed Project “Sapienza Bridge”.

 

A Grafo-linguistic Analysis of Furigana/Rubi Annotation in Late Edo to Early Modern Japanese Writing.

Orthographic Conventions, Gender, and Society in Joseon-Era Ongan-type Letters.

 


Publications (peer-reviewed)

Forthcoming

2023

2022

Reading Japanese Documents from the Marega Collection: An Introductory Manual with Selected Texts, by Naohiro Ōta, edited by Silvio Vita, Chiara Ghidini and Luca Milasi, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2022, 145 pp..

2021

2020

2019

2018

https://doi.org/104399/978882551465016.

2017

2016

http://www.fupress.com/catalogo/transcending-borders/3367.

2015

2014

2013

http://www.colophonarte.it/Nagasawa_b17.html.

2012

2011

Rivista Degli Studi Orientali, Nuova Serie, LXXXIV (Special issue 2011): 163–76.

2009

Phoenix in Domo Foscari 2: 253–91.

2008

Rivista degli studi orientali LXXXI (1–4): 205–53.


Education


Working experience


Supervisory experience


Teaching activities for graduate and doctoral schools


Project collaborations, boards, symposia and committees

·       2024 / 2 IAS 2024 – Intensive Academic Seminar of Korean Studies Young Scholars, February 19 to 24, 2024, Room t03, Marco Polo Building, ISO Department, Sapienza University of Rome — Member of the scientific committee

·       2024 / 1 The 8th Annual Hasekura International Japanese Studies Symposium: Embodied Discourse, Embodied Practice, The Body as Text, Medium, and Testimony in Japan, cohosted by Tohoku University, Sapienza University, University of British Columbia, 25 and 26 January 2024, room t02–3, Marco Polo Building, ISO Department, Sapienza University of Rome — Member of the scientific committee

·       2023 / 4 Writing in/and motion: Tracing the movement of texts, bodies, and identities in Japanese literature, International Symposium, April 21 and 22, Aula Magna, Marco Polo Building, ISO Department, Sapienza University of Rome — Member of the scientific committee

·       2023 – rifinanziato 2024 Advanced Seed project "Sapienza Bridge", funded by Academy of Korean Studies — Collaborating researcher

·       2018 / 4 – 2022/3 Marega project: member, https://www.nijl.ac.jp/projects/marega/

·       2021 / 3 Symposium Yonaoshi: Envisioning a Better World, March 5–6, 12–13, 2021, Online, Joint conference of Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan) and Sapienza University (Rome, Italy) (Hasekura League Symposium): member of the organizing committee

·       2018 / 2 International Symposium funded by the Japan Foundation “Realms of Words: Literature, Performance and the Media in Japan”, Sapienza University, 26 to 27 February 2018: member of the organizing committee.

·       2016 / 3 International Symposium funded by the Japan Foundation “Words as Performance: Oral Narratives, Poetry and Storytelling in Japan”, Sapienza University, 23 to 24 March 2016: member of the organizing committee.

·       2015/3 – ongoing Rivista degli Studi Orientali, Fabrizio Serra publishing house: member of the editorial board, https://www.jstor.org/journal/rivideglstudorie, ISSN: 0392-4866

·       2012/6 – ongoing Aracne publishing house: member of the editorial board.


Talks, seminars, workshops

·       2023

o   [presentation] The Ultimate Gift: ‘Body Offering’ Discourse in the ‘Indian’ (Tenjiku) Section of Konjaku monogatarishū, Writing in/and motion: Tracing the movement of texts, bodies, and identities in Japanese literature, International Symposium, April 21, Aula Magna, Marco Polo Building, ISO Department, Sapienza University of Rome

o   [invited presentation] 作者から者へ、テキストからパフォマンスへ-源氏物語『女房語り』に見る語り手の役割にする考察 (From writer to public, from text to performance: reflection on the role of the ‘narrator’ in Old Kyoto-dialect style Genji monogatari recitation), 共同連携事業 International joint seminar series 「文化達のダイナミズムとスタティクス」(‘Dinamism and Staticity of Cultural Transmission), 2会 (Second session), online, promoted by NIJL国学研究資料館, Tokyo, Japan

o   [Invited talk] “Modernizing Passion: Male Nostalgia, Chinese Allusions, and Women’s Aspiration for Independence in Late Meiji Prose Fiction,” talk at the workshop New Directions in Modern Japanese Culture: Comparativism, Translation, and Nation-Building in the Age of Empire (Monday 4 September to Wednesday 6 September 2023), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Waseda University Brussels Office

·       2022

o   [Invited presentation] Sakaguchi Ango and the Daraku/Naraku Discourse: Around and about the Decadence and Dystopia of Human Societies, September 28, 2022, at the session ‘Conceptualizing Collapse’ of The 7th Annual Hasekura International Japanese Studies Symposium: Naraku: Discord, Dysfunction, Dystopia (2022 September 27–29, plus 30–October 2 related events), Tohoku University, Sendai

·       2020

o   [Invited presentation] 研II 在外日本資料の調査と活用 13:40–14:20 「ロマ大における前近代日本資料にする新たな取り組み」 ルカミラズィ (Roma University Sapienza) グロバル情報社における日本アカイブにする際的人材育成プログラム プニングマ:日本アカイブにする際的人材育成にむけて 催:マレガプロジェクト(学研究資料館東京大史料編纂所大分県先哲史料館臼杵市イタリア東方学研究所) マ大サピエンツァ ナポリ東洋大学 会 場:大分県 豊の情報ライブラリ第6修室加:プロジェクトメンバ、ロマ大学・ナポリ東洋大の大院生など 日:令和2(2020) 210日(月).

·       2019

o   [Seminar] Lecture 3 “Reading the original documentation: an attempt at interpreting the facsimiles of documents collected by Marega" マレガ神父集文書を解する (Luca Milasi) 講師:ルミラ, and Workshop 1, "The sentence structure in the transcribed versions of the Marega documents: Feudal Domain of Usuki and the Shogunate Government.” (Naohiro Ota and Luca Milasi), くずし字解文をむ「臼杵藩と幕府」 講師:太田 ミラ, Seminars for the international Collaboration Project "Palaeography and the Surveying Methods of Japanese Historical Documents: developing teaching materials and methods through the Marega Collection between Italy and Japan" マ大連携事業日本史資料(古文書)のくずし字解と資料調査法-マレガ文書を通じた日伊材開発・教授法究のために-, Sapienza University, 9 and 10 December 2019, Department ‘Italian Institute of Oriental Studies – ISO’, Circonvallazione Tiburtina 4, Rome, Italy, 場所:ロマ大サピエンッア 2019129日(月) 第1日目 206教 20191210日(火) 第2日目 午前3議室/午後書館地下室, Organized by The Marega Project, Sapienza University. (National Institutes for the Humanities, Vatican Apostolic Library, Historiographical Institute of the University of Tokyo, Oita Prefecture Ancient Sage Historical Archives, Usuki City Board of Education) 主催:ロマ大サピエンッア、マレガプロジェクト(人間文化究機構学研究資料館、バチカン書館、東京大史料編纂所、大分県立先哲史料館、臼杵市育委員会).

o   [Conference presentation] La tematica dell’offerta del proprio corpo (shashin 捨身) nella sezione Tenjiku 天竺 del Konjaku monogatari shū (Giving up the body as an offering: reading the ‘Indian section’ of Konjaku monogatari shū), XLIII convegno Aistugia, University of Naples "L'Orientale", 21 September 2019.

·       2018

o   [Invited presentation] 'Hiroshima' Inside Me: Mishima, Ango and Nuclear Power, International Conference: 3.11: Disaster and Trauma in Experience, Understanding, and Imagination, co-hosted by Ghent University and Tohoku University (Hasekura League Symposium), Ghent, Belgium, Ghent University, 12 to 14 March 2018.

o   [Presentation] The Genji Monogatari as Machine: The Implied Performativity in The Source Text and Contemporary Storytelling, International conference "Realm of Words: Literature, Performance, and the media in Japan", Sapienza University, co-funded by the Japan Foundation, 26 to 27 February 2018.

·       2016

o   [Invited presentation] Kōda Rohan and the Modernity of Tradition: Classic Themes for a New Forma Mentis, “From the roots to the flowering branches of Japanese literature,” International Symposium, May 13, 2016 (The Japan Cultural Institute 日本文化 in Rome).

o   [Presentation] The distance of Shakespeare: Sôseki, Shôyô, and the problem of Hamlet, “Word as Performance”, International Conference, founded by the Japan Foundation, ISO — Department of Oriental Studies, Sapienza University, 23 to 24 March, 2016.

·       2015

o   [Invited panel presentation] Sagiyama Ikuko, Matilde Mastrangelo, Luca Milasi, Colours in Culture Interchanges, NIPPON/JAPAN as object, NIPPON/JAPAN as method co-hosted by Tohoku University and University of Florence, Florence, Palazzo Marucelli-Fenzi, 29 to 30 October 2015.

o   [Invited talk (as discussant)] The Possibilities for Pre-modern Japanese Texts — Symposium: マ:可能性としての日本古典籍, パネル2 合書物への挑Panel 2 New Approaches to Japanese Philology (ディスカッサント:discussant), 主催:大共同利用機法人人間文化究機構学研究資料館 (National Institute of Japanese Literature, National Institutes for the Humanities), 場所:学研究資料館 議室(東京都立川市10-3, 大規模術フロンティア促進事業「日本語の史的典籍の際共同究ネットワク構築計 第1回 日本語の史的典籍究集会 Project to Build an International Collaborative Research Network for Pre-modern Japanese Texts, The 1st International Conference on Pre-modern Japanese Texts), 日時:平成27(2015)731日(金)~81日(土)(2日間) (July 31 to August 1, 2015).

·       2013

o   [Presentation] Intorno al testo: scritti e primi adattamenti teatrali, da Shakespeare in poi, nel Giappone di fine Ottocento [Around and about the theatrical text: the first drama adaptations, from Shakespeare onwards, in 19th-century Japan], national conference “Il teatro giapponese tra la seconda metà dell’Ottocento e la prima metà del Novecento, la macchina scenica tra spazi urbani e riforme,” Sapienza University, Department ‘Italian Institute of Oriental Studies’, 13 to 14 December 2013.

·       2012

o   [Invited presentation] 落した春の謎を解く言葉の力-三島由紀夫のデカダンス文批評」、学研究資料館イタリア共同シンポジウム 『日本文のことばの力』(Joint symposium - the National Institute of Japanese Literature (国学研究資料館), 2012922—23, Grand Hotel Baglioni, Piazza dell’Unità Italiana 6, Florence, 22 to 23 September 2012.

·       2011

o   [Invited presentation] 鷗外が中古典から取り入れたモチフにする考察史小『魚玄機』を中心に, 国学研究資料館主催 日本文学国際シンポジウム 『表現式の交流』 (Joint symposium - the National Institute of Japanese Literature (国学研究資料館), Bologna, Faculty of Letters, 14 September 2011.


Grants and awards

·       2020

o   [Grant] Toshiba International Foundation Grant (TIFO 2020) of JPY 800,000 for the project ‘Palaeography and the Surveying Methods of Japanese Historical Documents’.

o   (Due to the COVID-19 health emergency, the grant has been deferred to the financial year 2021). P.I.: Luca Milasi.

·       2011

o   [Award] ‘Sapienza Università di Roma per la Ricerca – ‘Researchers under forty’ for the Humanities, “Sapienza Ricerca Prize, third edition”, under the high patronage of the Presidency of the Italian Republic.

o   https://www.uniroma1.it/sites/default/files/allegati/book%20SapienzaRicerca2011%20ok%20-%20del%2014%20novembre.pdf


Teaching experience

·       2023/9 – 2025/8 Department ‘Italian Institute of Oriental Studies’ (ISO Department), Sapienza University: Associate professor.

o   Course taught: Korean philology (Undergraduate, 6 ECTS).

·       2023/9 – 2025/8 Department ‘Italian Institute of Oriental Studies’ (ISO Department), Sapienza University: Associate professor.

o   Course taught: Comparative History of the Korean and Japanese languages (Graduate, 6 ECTS).

·       2020/9 – 2025/8 Department ‘Italian Institute of Oriental Studies’ (ISO Department), Sapienza University: Associate professor.

o   Course taught: Japanese language and translation second year (Undergraduate, 12 ECTS).

·       2020/10 – 2025/8 Department ‘Italian Institute of Oriental Studies’ (ISO Department), Sapienza University: Associate professor.

o   Courses taught: Japanese philology and palaeography (Graduate, 6 ECTS).

·       2020/3 – 2020/5 Department ‘Italian Institute of Oriental Studies’ (ISO Department), Sapienza University: Associate professor.

o   Course taught: Japanese philology (Undergraduate, 6 ECTS).

·       2019/10 – 2019/12 Department ‘Italian Institute of Oriental Studies’ (ISO Department), Sapienza University: Associate professor.

o   Course taught: Japanese philology and palaeography (Graduate, 6 ECTS).

·       2020/3 – 2020/5 Department ‘Italian Institute of Oriental Studies’ (ISO Department), Sapienza University: Associate professor.

o   Course taught: Japanese philology (Undergraduate, 6 ECTS).

·       2019/9 – 2020/5 Department ‘Italian Institute of Oriental Studies’ (ISO Department), Sapienza University: Associate professor.

o   Course taught: Japanese language and translation second year (Undergraduate, 12 ECTS).

·       2018/10 – 2018/12 Department ‘Italian Institute of Oriental Studies’ (ISO Department), Sapienza University: Assistant professor.

o   Course taught: Japanese philology (Graduate, 6 ECTS).

·       2017/10 – 2017/12 Department ‘Italian Institute of Oriental Studies’ (ISO Department), Sapienza University: Assistant professor.

o   Course taught: Japanese philology (Graduate, 6 ECTS).

·       2017/10 – 2018/5 Department ‘Italian Institute of Oriental Studies’ (ISO Department), Sapienza University: Assistant professor.

o   Course taught: Japanese philology (Undergraduate, 9 ECTS).

·       2016/10 – 2016/12 Department ‘Italian Institute of Oriental Studies’ (ISO Department), Sapienza University: Assistant professor.

o   Course taught: Japanese philology (Graduate, 6 ECTS).

·       2016/10 – 2017/5 Department ‘Italian Institute of Oriental Studies’ (ISO Department), Sapienza University: Assistant professor.

o   Course taught: Japanese philology (Undergraduate, 9 ECTS).

·       2015/10 – 2015/12 Department ‘Italian Institute of Oriental Studies’ (ISO Department), Sapienza University: Assistant professor.

o   Course taught: Japanese philology (Graduate, 6 ECTS).

·       2015/10 – 2016/5 Department ‘Italian Institute of Oriental Studies’ (ISO Department), Sapienza University: Assistant professor.

o   Course taught: Japanese philology (Undergraduate, 9 ECTS).

·       2014/10 – 2015/5 Department ‘Italian Institute of Oriental Studies’ (ISO Department), Sapienza University: Assistant professor.

o   Course taught: Japanese philology (Graduate, 6 ECTS).

·       2014/10 – 2015/5 Department ‘Italian Institute of Oriental Studies’ (ISO Department), Sapienza University: Assistant professor.

o   Course taught: Japanese philology (Undergraduate, 9 ECTS).

·       2013/10 – 2014/5 Department ‘Italian Institute of Oriental Studies’ (ISO Department), Sapienza University: Assistant professor.

o   Course taught: Japanese philology (Graduate, 6 ECTS).

·       2013/10 – 2014/5 Department ‘Italian Institute of Oriental Studies’ (ISO Department), Sapienza University: Assistant professor.

o   Course taught: Japanese philology (Undergraduate, 9 ECTS).

·       2012/10 – 2013/5 Department ‘Italian Institute of Oriental Studies’ (ISO Department), Sapienza University: Assistant professor.

o   Course taught: Japanese philology (Graduate, 6 ECTS).

·       2012/10 – 2013/5 Department ‘Italian Institute of Oriental Studies’ (ISO Department), Sapienza University: Assistant professor.

o   Course taught: Japanese philology (Undergraduate, 9 ECTS).

·       2011/10 – 2012/5 Department ‘Italian Institute of Oriental Studies’ (ISO Department), Sapienza University: Adjunct professor.

o   Course taught: Japanese philology (Graduate, 9 ECTS).

·       2010/10 – 2011/5 Department ‘Italian Institute of Oriental Studies’ (ISO Department), Sapienza University: Adjunct professor.

o   Course taught: Japanese philology (Graduate, 9 ECTS).


Professional memberships