Alexia Dedieu

In December 2022, Alexia Dedieu defended a joint thesis between the Université Grenoble Alpes and the Università degli Studi di Pisa, under the supervision of Malika Bastin-Hammou (UGA) and Simone Beta (Siena).
Her doctoral research focused on the scholarly reception of Euripides in the sixteenth century. This work involved studying the corpus of printed editions, Latin translations, and the paratexts accompanying these productions. She was awarded an ANR ACCESS ERC post-doctoral fellowship in 2023 and joined the TDMAM laboratory (UMR 7297) at the University of Aix-Marseille in September 2023.
As part of this ANR project, she studies the reception of the Greek tragic poets between the ninth and sixteenth centuries. She studied how Greek tragic poets were used and read during this period. She is investigating how ideas and philological practices evolved and circulated between Byzantine scholars and Western European scholars, which conditioned the transmission of Greek tragedy and shaped its reception in early modern Europe.

On a broader scale, her work focuses on the philological practices of Hellenists (editions, translations, paratexts), their fundamental role in the history of Hellenism and the reception of Greek poetry, and their influence on the construction of the history of theatre and literature in modern Europe.