Michela Piccin is a guest research fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO)

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Michela Piccin earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s in Classics at Ca' Foscari University, Venice, followed by a PhD in Assyriology at La Sapienza University, Rome. She has enjoyed several periods in Cambridge and Oxford researching ancient Near Eastern ‘rhetoric’, and she has benefited from teaching contracts and research grants that have taken her across the globe (mainly in China and South Africa). Through these positions, she explored stylistic-linguistic issues associated with ‘rhetoric’ and ancient Near Eastern literature, publishing these findings in her first monograph, Linguistic Aspects of Persuasiveness in Akkadian (2021).

Now, as a NINO Visiting Research Fellow, she is thrilled and honoured to be carrying out her project entitled “The notion of the Sublime in Mesopotamian sources and its reception in translations.” She sees Leiden University’s vibrant academic environment as the perfect location for this endeavour, particularly working in collaboration with Professor Casper de Jonge, a leading expert in this field, which will help her elicit the best possible interpretations of the Mesopotamian sources.