Personale docente

I hold a BA and an MA with honors in Foreign Languages and Literatures (English, French, and German) from the University of Parma (Italy), where I studied under the supervision of Prof Diego Saglia. I obtained my first degree in December 2006, writing a dissertation on Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey (1958). In July 2010, I completed my second-level degree with a thesis on Martin Crimp’s drama.

Between 2006 and 2013, I attended various specialist summer courses on British literature, theatre, and culture at the Universities of Edinburgh (UK), Cambridge (UK), and Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), as well as a course on French language and culture at Aix-Marseille Université (France).

In January 2013, I started my PhD at the University of Parma. In 2014 I was a Visiting Scholar at the Universitat de Barcelona, under the supervision of Mireia Aragay, and in 2015 I visited the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading (UK), under the supervision of Kate Bassett. 

In April 2016, I was awarded the title of ‘Doctor Europaeus’ for a PhD thesis entitled “The Politics of Re-(En)visioning: Contemporary British Rewritings of Greek and Roman Tragedies” (2016), supervised by Prof Diego Saglia. International Referees: Prof Mireia Aragay (Universitat de Barcelona) and Kate Bassett (University of Reading, UK). Examiners: Prof Graham Saunders (University of Birmingham, UK), Prof Gioia Angeletti (University of Parma), and Prof Andrea Capra (University of Durham, UK).

A revised version of my PhD dissertation will be published as a monograph entitled Contemporary British Appropriations of Greek and Roman Tragedies: The Politics of Rewriting (Palgrave).

January 2022-July 2024: Postdoctoral Researcher on the project “Reprising Romanticism: Romantic Re-Creations in Contemporary British Theatre (1980-2020)” at the University of Parma (Tutor-PI: Prof Gioia Angeletti). Internal Member: Prof Diego Saglia; External Members: Prof Graham Saunders (University of Birmingham), Prof Mireia Aragay (Universitat de Barcelona), and Prof Andrea Peghinelli (Sapienza).

September 2024-August 2025: Postdoctoral Researcher on the project “The Liberal (1821-23): Critical Study, Electronic Edition and Present-Day Resonances” at the University of Parma, as part of the PRIN 2022 project “Reviving The Liberal: Literature and Politics between Britain and Italy, 1821-23” (PI: Prof. Diego Saglia).

I presented several papers at international conferences across Europe (UK, Ireland, France, Spain, Germany, Austria, and Belgium) and published various articles and book chapters on contemporary British drama.

Research interests:

- contemporary British drama and theatre (1956-present);

- national, cultural, sexual, and gender identities in the Anglophone world;

- the body and corporeality;

- Adaptation and Appropriation Studies (Greco-Roman tragedy, Shakespeare, and Romanticism in contemporary British theatre);

- intertextuality;

- contemporary British novel;

- Brexit and BrexLit;

- British Cultural Studies;

- theatre translation;

- Care Studies;

- Ecocriticism and Green Writing;

- British Romanticism: The Pisan Circle, The Liberal, and Liberalism; rewritings of Romantic-age works and figures in late twentieth-century and contemporary British literature;

- Literature & Medicine; literature, theatre, and performance & Disability Studies. 

Teaching:

. 2012-present: English Literature and Theatre Translation seminars at the University of Parma;

. 2016-present: Adjunct Professor of English Literature, Anglophone Literatures, History of English Culture, English Language and Translation;

. 2013-2020: Adjunct Professor of English Literature at the Parma branch of Boston College, MA.

2010-present: Member of the Editorial Team of the University of Parma’s international e-journal of Quotation Studies Parole Rubate/Purloined Letters. General Editors: Prof Nicola Catelli (University of Parma) and Prof Corrado Confalonieri (Chapman University, CA)

2022-2025: Co-investigator for “Gender, Affect and Care in the Twenty-First Century British Theatre” (PID2021-126448NA-I00), a three-year research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) and the EU European Regional Development Fund (FFI2016-75443) (PI: Dr Clara Escoda, Universitat de Barcelona).

I am a member of the international research group RADAC (Recherches sur les Arts Dramatiques Anglophones Contemporains) and of the following associations: CDE (The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English), AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica), ESSE (The European Society for the Study of English), BARS (British Association for Romantic Studies), Associazione Sigismondo Malatesta.

In addition, I am a member of the Interuniversity Centre for the Study of Romanticism (CISR), of the Interuniversity Centre for the Memory of Performative Arts (MAP), and of the Working Group "Officina 900" (University of Parma).

Referee for the following journals: Il lettore di provincia; Sig.Ma - Rivista di Letterature Comparate, Teatro e Arti dello Spettacolo; NuBe - Nuova Biblioteca Europea; Status Quaestionis; Atlantis - Journal of the Spanish Association of English Studies, AEDEAN; Contemporary Theatre Review; Textus: English Studies in Italy, Coup de Théâtre.

Member of the Scientific Board of the Special Issue of RADAC’s journal Coup de Théâtre (No 38, Autumn 2024), entitled "Seriality, Reboots and Iterability on the Contemporary Anglophone Stage", edited by Anouk Bottero (Université Paris-Sorbonne), Claire Hélie (Université de Lille), and Marianne Drugeon (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier).