DrDaniel Canaris

Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

BIO

PhD, University of Sydney

 

Daniel Canaris is an intellectual historian specialising in Sino-Western cultural exchange, as well as the Italian Enlightenment and Renaissance. He completed his PhD in Italian Studies at the University of Sydney in 2017 and has been awarded fellowships by the University Erlangen-Nuremberg, the Warburg Institute (University of London), the Sun Yat-sen University, the Ricci Insitute for Chinese-Western Cultural History (University of San Francisco), Villa I Tatti (Harvard; declined) and Boston College. He currently holds two ARC grants. As part of his ARC DECRA award, he is working on translations of the Aristotelian soul into Chinese. As part of his Discovery Project (with Francesco Borghesi, Yixu Lu and Thierry Meynard), he is working on the translation and reception of Confucian classics into Europe and manages the digital database, textus-sinici.org.

THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY APPOINTMENTS

  • Senior Lecturer
    The University of Sydney, School of Languages and Cultures, Sydney, Australia1 Jan 2026 - present
  • DECRA Research Fellow
    The University of Sydney, School of Languages and Cultures, Sydney, Australia28 Aug 2022 - present
  • Lecturer
    The University of Sydney, School of Languages and Cultures, Sydney, Australia1 Aug 2022 - present

LANGUAGES

  • Italian
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Latin
    Can read, write, understand and peer review
  • Chinese (Mandarin)
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • French
    Can read
  • Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
    Can read

SCHOOL

  • School of Languages & Cultures

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)