Having spent the majority of his career in Italy and the United States, he has served as a professor of Classics at New York University since 2016.
Until 1987, Barchiesi was based at the Scuola Normale di Pisa, first as a student of Gian Biagio Conte and later as research fellow.
[2] In addition to the above appointments, he has had visiting positions at various institutions, including Oxford, Harvard and Princeton.
In 2010–11, he served in the prestigious role of Sather Professor of Classical Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.
[3] He is an editor, with Robert Fowler, Lucia Prauscello and Nigel Wilson, of the series Sozomena which is published for the Herculaneum Society by Walter de Gruyter.