Emilio Russo (Reggio Calabria, 1970) studied at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
In 2000 he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois, USA) and, after a post-doctorate in Italian Studies at the University of Padua and a research grant at the Institute of Historical Studies in Naples, he taught at the Universities of Basel and Freiburg.
Since May 2011 he has been teaching at the Sapienza University of Rome.