Curriculum

Associate Professor in Anglo-American Literature (2019-present), University of Bari

 

2006-2019 Lecturer in English Literature, University of Bari

2004-2008 PhD in Comparative Literature, University of Bari, with a doctoral dissertation on Living men and women on the scene. William Hazlitt as a Shakespearean critic

2002-2004 Research fellowship in English Literature on Shakespeare’s critical and dramatic reception between the 18th and the 20th centuries, University of Bari

1997-2001 Degree in Modern Languages at the University of Bari, with a dissertation on the narrative of Francis Scott Fitzgerald, grades 110/110 cum laude

 

2017-present: Teaching of Anglo-American Literature at the second cycle degree in Modern Philology of the University of Bari and English Drama at the second cycle degree in Visual and Performing Arts Studies LM65 of the University of Bari

2016-present: Teaching of European and American Theatre at the first cycle Degree in Humanities of the University of Bari

2004-2016: Teaching of English Literature at the first cycle Degree in Humanities of the University of Bari and at the University of Brindisi

2003-present: carried out bibliographical research at the Cambridge University Library (Cambridge, UK), the British Library (London, UK), The King’s College Archive and The Saint John’s College Library (Cambridge, UK), Bibliothèque nationale de France François-Mitterrand and Richelieu Library (Paris, France)

2019: Erasmus+ Teaching Staff at the University of Krakow (Poland)

2018: Erasmus+ Teaching Staff at the University of Warsaw (Poland)

2015: Erasmus+ Teaching Staff at the University of Torun (Poland)

2014-present: Seminars on theatre in collaboration with actors and directors for the Teatro Pubblico Pugliese

 

2022: Participation in Horizon Europe Seeds | University of Bari Aldo Moro - "Sguardi diversi" coordinator Davide Canfora.

2002-present: Participation and Coordination in Departmental research projects on English and American drama and literature

2008-2010: Co-direction of the Bari Unit of the national research project on Plotting the Future: Prophecy and Disenchantment in European Literature and Music from 1500 to 1900 in collaboration with the Universities of Torino, Cassino, Padova and Napoli

 

2022: University of Catania (Italy) - "“Identity and Alterity in a Selection of James Purdy's Short Stories" in the international conference "Other_Otherness"

2021: University of L'Aquila (Italy) - "Individual and collective identities in Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs (1892)" in 26th AISNA Biennal Conference “Crossing Territories. Recognition across Time, Space, and Textuality in the US and Beyond”

2021: University of Lyon (France) - "From life to page. Visions of the Roaring Twenties in F.S. Fitzgerald’s early novels" in Lyon Esse Conference 2021 - The European Society for the Study of English / seminar about "The Roaring Novels in the 1920's"

2021: University of Warsaw (Poland) - “Rural vs. Urban Space in James Purdy’s Fiction” in the international conference EAAS2020 Conference 20/20 Vision: Citizenship, Space, Renewal

2019: University of Roma Tre (Rome) -"Hamlet overseas. The acting technique of Edwin Booth" in ESRA - European Shakespeare Research Association congress Shakespeare and European Geographies: Centralities and Elsewheres

2019: University of Malta, “The first poet of the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson reads Shakespeare” in the International Conference The Essay: Present Histories, Present Futures

2017: London (UK) University College, “Hazlitt’s Journey to Italy” in 16th Hazlitt Day School&Annual Hazlitt Lecture / Hazlitt and Life-Writing

2017: Gdansk (PL), University of Gdansk, “The London theatre scene in William Hazlitt’s dramatic criticism” in ESRA - European Shakespeare Research Association congress ‘Shakespeare and European Theatrical Cultures: AnAtomizing Text and Stage’

2017: University of Bari in collaboration with Teatro Pubblico Pugliese, Introduction to Amleto+Die Fortinbras Machine by Roberto Latini and to Vladimir Macbetin by Spitfire Company (Czechoslovakia)

2016: University of Bari in collaboration with Teatro Pubblico Pugliese, Introduction to Songs of Lear by Song of the Goat Theatre (Poland)

2015: University of Bari, International Conference on Petrarch and Europe

2015: Torun (PL), Nicolaus Copernicus University, The Italian translators of Shakespeare

2014: Liverpool (UK), School of Arts, Managers, actors and actresses in Romantic Liverpool in Edward Rushton Romantic Liverpool: a Bicentennial Conference

2014: University of Bari, Private conflicts in the Shakespearean theatre, for the Summer School Il privato e l’intimo

 

2022-present : Member of the scientific board of the book series "Quaderni del Centro Studi Americani" (CSA&Aisna, Rome - Italy)

2022-present: Member of the scientific board of the book series "Teoria della letteratura e letterature comparate" (Del Vecchio Editore, Rome - Italy).

2021-present: Member of the scientific board of the book series "Passaggio a Nord Ovest" (Agorà&Co. - Switzerland) directed by Donatella Izzo and Gigliola Nocera

2018-present: Co-director of the book series “Qwerty” (Lecce: PensaMultimedia)

2013-present: Member of the editorial board of the journal «FuturoClassico» (ISSN 2465-0951)

 

2019-present: Member of the AISNA (American Studies Association of Italy)

2016-present: Member of the European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA)

2016-present: Member of the William Hazlitt Society, London