Maria Fallica is a Postdoctoral Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow. Her fellowship project, based at Florida State University and Sapienza University of Rome, is Folly and the Feminine in the Renaissance (FOLIE) on the reception of Erasmus’ Praise of Folly in the French and Italian Renaissance. She received her first Ph.D. in Philology and History of the Ancient World at Sapienza University of Rome in 2017; at the same university, she earned a Ph.D. in History of Christianity in 2020.

Research Interests

History of Christianity
Reception Studies
Patristics
Early Modern History

Select Publications

Books:

• The Protestant Origen. Polemical Use and Theological Appropriation of Origen in 16th century Patristic Anthologies, Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2022.
• Progresso e tradizione in John Wesley. Il metodismo tra patristica e filosofia moderna, Carocci, Roma 2022.

Selected Articles:

• Erasmus and the Lady of Loreto. The Virgin, the Bride, and the Progress of the Church, in «Erasmus Studies» n. 43 (2023) pp. 121-142.
• Rewriting the Continental Reformation for the Italian Public. The Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans by Antonio Brucioli, in «Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni» n. 88/1 (2022), pp. 265-280.
• An Anglo-Syrian Monk: John Wesley's Reception of Pseudo-Macarius, in «Open Theology» n. 7 (2021), pp. 491-500.
• Origen and the glorified body. Bullinger, Sozzini and Calvin in Dialogue, in B. Bitton-Ashkelony, O. Irshai, A. Kofsky, H. Newman, L. Perrone (eds.), Origeniana duodecima. Origen’s Legacy in the Holy Land – A Tale of Three Cities: Jerusalem, Caesarea and Bethlehem. Proceedings of the 12th International Origen Congress, Jerusalem, 25-29 June, 2017, Peeters, Leuven – Paris – Bristol 2019, pp. 725-740.
• Quodammodo transfiguratum est in animum: Erasmus’ doctrine of the resurrection of the body and its Origenian roots, in «Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity» 23/1 (2019), pp. 82-100.