Giuseppina Larocca is Associate Professor in Slavic Studies at the Humanities Department (University of Macerata) where, from 2019 to 2022 she was a Research Fellow. She holds a PhD from the University of Pisa (2011), her thesis discussed the literary work by Lev Pumpjanskij; she completed a degree at the same university with a thesis on Andrej Platonov (2007).

Larocca was Adjunct Professor in History of Slavic Languages Countries Culture at the University of Tuscia (2013-2014), in Russian Literature at the University of Florence (2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017), in Russian Culture at the University of Pisa (2014-2015), in Russian Language at the University of Siena, branch of Arezzo (2014-2015), in Multimedial Translation, Russian Language, Russian Language and Translation, Language and Russian Translation, and Russian Literature and Culture at the University of Macerata (2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2018-2019), and in Russian Language and Russian Literature at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” (2016-2017). At the Universities of Florence and Macerata, in 2017-2018 she was teaching assistant in Russian Language and Literature. In the same year, at the University of Florence she was awarded a research fellowship to work on the project “Alle due sponde della cortina di ferro: culture del dissenso e la definizione dell'identità europea nel secondo Novecento tra Italia, Francia e URSS (1956-1991)” (Slavic section Coordinator: Prof Claudia Pieralli).

Between September and December 2019 Larocca was an Erasmus pro tempore representative for the Undergraduate degree program in "Western and Eastern Languages and Cultures" and the Postgraduate degree program in "Languages, Cultures and Literary Translation". She is the CLA contact person for Russian Studies within the following degree programs: “Language Mediation for International Business and Digital Media” and "Western and Eastern Languages and Cultures" (Undergraduate degree programs), “Modern Languages for International Communication and Cooperation" and "Language, Cultures and Literary Translation" (Postgraduate degree programs). She was a member of the Student Committee Admission for the degree programs in "Western and Eastern Languages and Cultures" and "Languages, Cultures and Literary Translation". Since November 2022 she has been Vice-Director of the degree program in “Language Mediation for International Business and Digital Media” and post degree program in "Modern Languages for International Communication and Cooperation". Since January 2024 she has been Erasmus Departmental Coordinator, and also member of the Teaching Staff-Student Joint Committee, the Spin-off Technical Committee and the Academic Board – National PhD program in “Teaching & Learning Sciences: Inclusion, Technologies, Educational Research and Evaluation” (University of Macerata). Since April 2025 she has served as UniMC contact person for the UniAdrion Organization (https://www.uniadrion.net/organization/#) and the UniAdrion Italy Consortium (https://www.uniadrionitaly.it/about-us/).

Her research interests include Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Russian Prose, Russian Emigration Literature, Russian Intellectual History and Literary Theory.

Since 2024 she has been a member of two international research groups, i.e. "reSTOrative naRratIvES – STO-R-I-ES" coordinated by Prof Silvia Pierosara (University of Macerata) and the ERUA Research Cluster titled "Historical Legacies: Law, Memory, and Reconciliation in Shaping National Histories and European Identity" (led by Prof Dovilè Sagatienė, Mykolo Romerio universitetas, Vilnius). From 2009 to 2013 Larocca was a member of the PRIN research group “Russi in Italia (1900-1940)" (http://www.russinitalia.it/index.php); between 2012 and 2013 at the University of Pisa she was a Research Fellow on the same project. In 2007 and in 2009 she spent some months as a Visiting Scholar at the RGGU University of Moscow and at the Russian Literature Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Peterburg. Moreover, Larocca was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Columbia University’s Harriman Institute (New York, August 2013), Visiting Research Fellow at the Queen Mary University of London (July-August 2019; March-April 2024), Academic Visitor at the University of Oxford (Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, Wadham College, July-August 2023), and Visiting Scholar at the New York University (Department of Russian and Slavic Studies) and the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia (New York, August-September 2025).

She has carried extensive research in archives in Moscow (RGALI, RGB, GARF) and St Peterburg (RNB, IRLI, ORK SPbU, CGA, CGIA) as well as at archives in Italy, Swizterland, and US. In 2015, Larocca was a member of a research project funded by the Anvur “ROBINBa- The Role of Books in Non-Bibliometric Areas” (University of  Macerata, Slavic section Coordinator: Prof Bianca Sulpasso). She has delivered several conference talks and has participated in workshops and seminars in Italy, the UK, US, France, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Serbia, Russia, and Estonia. She is a member of the study group on Eighteenth-Century Russia (Hoddesdon, https://www.sgecr.co.uk/), the AATSEEL (American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, https://www.aatseel.org), the ASEEES (Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, https://www.aseees.org), the BASEES (British Association for Slavonic, and East European Studies) and the Italian Association of Slavists (https://associazioneslavisti.com/).

From July 2015 to January 2022 Larocca was a member and journal editorial administrator of the Italian journal of Slavic Studies AIS "Studi Slavistici" and since March 2024 she has been Section Editor for "Russian Studies" of the same journal. Since 2022 she has been a member of the journal "Vremennik Russkogo Formalizma" (University of Bergamo). She has been awarded several fellowships and fundings to carried out research in Moscow, St Peterburg, Tartu, and Prague. Larocca has played an active role in organising exhibitions on Russian culture, literature and history, for instance at the RGGU Moscow (November 2011), the National Library in Rome (March 2012; November 2021), the University of Macerata (May 2014, February-March 2023), and at the University of Pisa (October 2014).

Together with Cinzia Cadamagnani and Guido Carpi, she is the editor of the first essay collection dedicated to the theory of poetry and literary theory of Maksim Šapir (Pensa Multimedia, 2013). She is the author of the monograph "L’aquila bicipite e il tenero iris. Tracce russe a Firenze nel primo Novecento (1899-1939)" (Pisa University Press, 2018), and has published numerous papers, book chapters, encyclopaedic entries, and bio-bibliographic index cards in Russian, English, and Italian. She is currently working on a book project, provisionally titled "Beyond Formalism. Lev Pumpianskii Between Classical Philology and Literary Criticism" (Academic Studies Press, Boston).