Nicoletta Bruno is currently a Research Fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study (2025–2026), an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool, and an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

She received her PhD in Greek and Latin Philology (Doctor Europaeus) from the University of Bari Aldo Moro, with research residencies at the University of Oxford and the University of Freiburg (Germany). She has held numerous postdoctoral fellowships and research grants at leading institutions, including the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg in Greifswald, Maynooth University (Ireland), the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies in Innsbruck (Austria), and at the University of Basel (Basel Fellowship in Latin Literature). She is also the recipient of a Research Grant awarded by the ISHR –International Society for the History of Rhetoric.

Her main areas of research include Latin epic poetry, Roman historiography, Latin lexicography, classical reception, and early modern historical thought, with a particular focus on the works of Peter Martyr d’Anghiera. She has published widely on these topics, including a commentary on Lucretius’ De rerum natura (5.1105–1349) (Bautz, Nordhausen, 2020), and an edited volume Archaeologies, Origins, Antiquities: Narrating Early Cultural History in Ancient Greece and Rome (De Gruyter, Berlin, 2025). 

She is currently completing two monographs: Tacitus and the Rhetoric of Silence (under preliminary contract with Brill, HRE series), and Lucretius on History (under contract with Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Elements in Ancient Philosophy series).