Rosanna Cucchiara

Affiliated researcher

cucchiara@fscire.it

Research interests

Interreligious dialogue, translation, Greek and Latin literature

Education, academic and professional experience

She is currently working on a research project on the translation of Greek and Latin in high schools, proposing a new role and methodological approach for the study of these disciplines. The focus of the project remains on the dialogue between classical culture and other Mediterranean cultures, now well represented in Italian high school classrooms, with the use of digital humanities. The research will result in the publication of a text and the proposal of a new curriculum for classical high schools.

From September 2013 to August 2025, she has held the position of permanent school principal at ICS Silvio Boccone in Palermo (seconded to FSCIRE from September 2021, L. 448/1998 art. 26, comma 8).

From October 2022 to December 2023, she attended the Executive Master’s program in Management of Educational and Training Institutions: Skills and Innovation for School Leadership.

From December 2021 to April 2022, she attended the Master in Pluralismo religioso e sapere storico, 120 hours, organized by the Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII Bologna-Palermo.

From September 1993 to August 2013, she was a tenured teacher of Latin and Greek at classical high schools in Palermo and its province, including the Liceo Classico Statale Umberto I.

From 1993 to 1998, she pursued a PhD in Greek and Latin Philology and Culture at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, University of Palermo, with a dissertation on Idyll XXI by Theocritus.

From 1987 to 1992, she completed a four-year degree in Classical Letters at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, University of Palermo, with a thesis in Greek philology on Menophilus of Damascus.

From 1996 to 1997, she completed a postgraduate course in General and Museum Didactics at Roma Tre University.

Featured publications

Articles

R. Cucchiara, Il valore della bellezza per una scuola adeguata alla sua vera missione in Atti, Da anima ad anima. Bellezza e sacralità dell’insegnamento, Associazione culturale Paideia, Baida, Palermo, 2019.

R. Cucchiara, La scuola ha una grande anima, in «Quaderni del Dipartimento di filosofia e storia del Liceo classico Vittorio Emanuele II di Palermo» 1 (2021), p. 28.

Conferences, seminars and workshops

Since 2022, she has been responsible for organizing the PluRes training courses for teachers of all educational levels.

Organization of Percorsi per le competenze trasversali e l’orientamento (PCTO) and other high schools:

- Storie, culture e religioni. Documentando in biblioteca e in città (2025)
- Storie, culture, religioni. Dialoghiamo in biblioteca (2024)
- Dialoghiamo in biblioteca (2023)
- Storie, culture e religioni in dialogo (2022)

May 13, 2024, organization of the panel Incontri e racconti da tre città del mondo arabo-islamico, festival La settimana delle Culture, XIII edition, Palermo.

April 19, 2024, presentation of the book Storia di μ, by Melloni A., (Bologna, Marietti1820, 2023).

May 21, 2023, organization of the panel Il viaggio arabo-islamico tra luoghi e spiritualità, festival La settimana delle Culture, XII edition, Palermo.

November 24–December 1, 2023, external coordinator for the project EPALE EDU HACK 2023 Percorsi di cittadinanza: esperienze innovative per la comunità e l’occupabilità, Social Hackathon, III edition, Rome.

March–June 2021, organization of the training course Storie, Culture e Religioni in dialogo, ex 440 notice at ICS Boccone.

October 18, 2019, organization of the event for the dedication of the Aula Magna of ICS Silvio Boccone to Father Pino Puglisi, formerly the archiepiscopal seminary, attended by representatives of the different religious denominations present in the area, as well as political, educational, and cultural authorities.

April 6–7, 2019, Il valore della bellezza per una scuola adeguata alla sua vera missione, in the conference Da anima ad anima. Bellezza e sacralità dell’insegnamento, Associazione culturale Paideia, Baida, Palermo.

March 26, 2019, Tecnologie per la gestione delle difficoltà sociali, emotive e comportamentali a scuola: le applicazioni Behave e Base, Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche del CNR.

April 21, 2016, Una didattica personalizzata per i BES, Convegno Regionale di studi UNIPED, Palermo.