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Erica Camisa Morale completed her BA in Foreign Languages and Cultures, specializing in Russian and German, and her MA in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Pavia (IT), during which she studied in Warsaw (PO) and conducted research in Leipzig (GE). Afterward, she received her Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures and held a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Southern California (USC).

Her current research project explores the origins of lyric poetry and the emergence of the notion of individuality in East Slavic space in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She analyzes this phenomenon against the backdrop of the transcultural character of early modern East Slavic culture, working at the intersection of various disciplines—literature, linguistics, philosophy, and anthropology. In conducting this research, she focuses in particular on the following authors: Simeon Polotskii, Karion Istomin, Petr Buslaev, Teofan Prokopovich, Andrei Bialobotskii; as well as on the contribution of female poets to the establishment of a lyric tradition thanks to their bringing to light elements of individual inner life that were traditionally excluded from literature. She examines especially poems by the Moskvina sisters, Neelova, Dolgorukova, and Anna Bunina. Related topics of research include Baroque and early Enlightenment culture, the new role of the poet, and the poet as a prophet.