University Centre for Victorian and Edwardian Studies (CUSVE)
Richard AMBROSINI
Rome 3 University
Richard Ambrosini is Professor of English Literature at Rome 3 University, Italy, and President of AISC, the Italian Association of Conrad Studies. He is author of three monographs on Joseph Conrad, Le storie di Conrad. Biografia intellettuale di un romanziere (Carocci, 2019), Conrad’s Fiction as Critical Discourse (Cambridge UP, 1991; 2008); Introduzione a Conrad (Laterza, 1991). He has also published the volume R. L. Stevenson: la poetica del romanzo (Bulzoni, 2001) and co-edited, with Richard Dury, the collections of essays Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer of Boundaries (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006) and European Stevenson (Cambridge Scholars, 2009). He has published articled and essays on a number of English writers, from Chaucer to Graham Greene, via Shakespeare, Coleridge, Kipling, Ouida. He has also written on the origins of international anti-racist movements (“I documenti UNESCO sulla “Race Question” e l’ambigua nascita dell’antirazzismo”, 2010) as well as on multiculturalism (“Memoria storica e critica del presente: usi e abusi dei termini ‘multiculturalismo’ e ‘postcoloniale’, 2013). He has contributed two chapters to the UTET volume of European literature, “Il mondo nuovo del romanzo: 1900-1925” and “L’avventura” (2014). He has translated works by Conrad (Un reietto delle isole, 1994; L’agente segreto, 1998 and 2010; Il caso, 2013) and Stevenson (L’isola del tesoro, 1996; La spiaggia di Falesá, 2011). He is currently writing a manual on English poetry.
Ian CAMPBELL
University of Edinburgh
MA, PhD DLitt, born Lausanne 1942, Ian Campbell is Emeritus Professor of Scottish and Victorian Literature at the University of Edinburgh, where he has been since 1964 with visiting appointments in USA and Canada, China, Japan and Europe. His teaching and research have both encompassed Scottish Literature and Victorian Literature, and he is one of the senior editors of the Duke-Edinburgh edition of the Carlyle Letters, soon to be completed from Duke University Press in 50 volumes. He retired in 2009, but remains active as a teaching fellow and editor and writer of Victorian and Scottish texts.
Allan CHRISTENSEN
John Cabot University, Rome
Born in New York, educated at Harvard (A.B. 1962) and Princeton (Ph.D. 1968), Professor Emeritus of English, John Cabot University. While including many aspects of nineteenth and twentieth-century European literature, his research has especially investigated novels by Bulwer Lytton, Ruffini and Dickens as well as the poetry of Keats, Tennyson and Hopkins. He has analysed too the achievement of the authoresses Cornelia Turner and Henrietta Jenkin and examined in particular the theme of contagion and literary treatments of processes of subversion and creative destruction.
Jane DESMARAIS
Goldsmiths, University of London
Jane Desmarais is Professor of English at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Director of the Decadence Research Centre. She is Editor-in-Chief of Volupté: Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies and Chair of the British Association of Decadence Studies (BADS). She has published numerous essays and articles on the theme of decadence, and her most recent publications include Monsters under Glass: A Cultural History of Hothouse Flowers, 1850 to the Present (Reaktion Books, 2018); Decadence and the Senses (with Alice Condé, 2017); Arthur Symons: Selected Early Poems (with Chris Baldick, 2017); and Decadence and Literature (with David Weir, 2019). She is currently editing with David Weir the Oxford Handbook of Decadence, working on an edition of Decadent Plays, 1890-1930 with Adam Alston (forthcoming with Bloomsbury in 2023), and translating (with Brendan King) the art writings of Robert de Montesquiou.
Elio DI PIAZZA
University of Palermo
Elio Di Piazza was Professor of English literature at the University of Palermo, Italy. His research interests lie in the field of colonial studies, with particular attention to travel writing. He has published volumes on the links between British colonialism and literature, among which L’avventura bianca (1999), and Cronotopi conradiani(1994), and several of his essays have appeared in national and international journals and collections. He has edited the volumes Narrazioni dell’impero. Saggi su colonialismo e letteratura (1995), Nazionalismo e letteratura (1995), and Maschere dell’impero. Percorsi coloniali della letteratura inglese (2005).
Gloria LAURI-LUCENTE
University of Malta
gloria.lauri-lucente@um.edu.mt
Gloria Lauri-Lucente is Professor of Italian and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Malta. She is Head of the Department of Italian and Director of the Institute of Anglo-Italian Studies. She designed and is the coordinator of the MA programme in ‘Film Studies.’ She is editor and co-editor of a number of critical collections, among which Jane Austen’s Emma: Revisitations and Critical Contexts (Aracne, 2011), Style in Theory. Between Philosophy and Literature (Bloomsbury, 2013), and E.M. Forster Revisited (Solfanelli, 2015). She is the volume editor of the Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies and the author of numerous articles and book chapters, mainly on the lyric tradition, Anglo-Italian Studies, and Film Studies. She is an Honorary Member of CUSVE. In 2018 she was bestowed with the Order of the Star of Italy of the Italian Republic on the recommendation of the Italin Embassy in Malta. She is currently completing a monograph on the filmic and the television adaptations of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Literature which will be forthcoming with Peter Lang.
Phillip MALLETT
University of St Andrews
Philip Mallett is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews. His primary interests are in the work of Thomas Hardy, John Ruskin, Rudyard Kipling, and Flora Steel: more generally, and across the period 1830-1930, in literature and science, including medicine, eugenics, and the science of the mind; in race and imperialism, in particular the British Raj; in literature and the law; and in gender and sexuality.
Francesca ORESTANO
University of Milan
Francesca Orestano, formerly Professor of English Literature at the University of Milan (Italy), has written on the American Renaissance (Dal Neoclassico al Classico); on Revd. William Gilpin and the picturesque (Paesaggio e finzione); on visual studies (La parola e lo sguardo); she has edited books and journal issues on children’s literature, Alexander Pope, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Jakob Burckhardt, John Ruskin, chemistry and taste, Virginia Woolf, Tomasi di Lampedusa. She works on gardens and gardening; in 2020 she co-edited (with Marco Canani) an issue of La questione Romantica devoted to “Romanticism and Cultural Memory”.
David PAROISSIEN
University of Buckingham
David Paroissien is Emeritus Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (USA), and Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham (UK). His primary field of research is Charles Dickens, and he is currently engaged with two projects: (1) editing a revised edition of A Companion to Charles Dickens (2009) for publication by Wiley/Blackwell and (2) co-editing with Susan Shatto three volumes of “The Dickens Companions Series”, studies designed to provide a comprehensive annotation of a single novel, for publication by Liverpool University Press. His other interests are in Carlyle and Victorian historiography.
Enrico REGGIANI
Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan
Enrico Reggiani is Full Professor of Literature in English at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan. He has published widely on W. B. Yeats and other Irish writers; writers of Catholic origin, culture and background; interdisciplinary relationships between literature and economy/economics. At present, also thanks to his advanced competence and research activity in the cultural-musicological field, the transdisciplinary and bidirectional relationships between literature and music are his main research area and he has been defined as an international scholar “with a high profile in the relevant field”. He has translated books on music theory/analysis and music history; has been the editor of Analysis (the scientific journal of Società Italiana di Analisi Musicale); has published a book on Il do maggiore di questa vita. Cinque saggi sulla cultura musico(-)letteraria di lingua inglese (Vita e Pensiero, 2016) and essays on Mary Shelley, Schumann’s compositional reception of Shakespeare, Hopkins, George Eliot, Yeats, Mahon, Britten; has edited and prefaced the new edition of Marcello Pagnini’s Lingua e Musica(ETS, 2024). Since 2011, he has been the Director of the Studium Musicale di Ateneo and taught a course on Musical languages in historical perspective. He has taught Music Analysis at the Milan Civica Scuola di Musica and English for Music at Università IULM in Milan; has been a member of the scientific committee of the musico-literary Festival Le Corde dell’Anima (Cremona, 2010-2014) and is a regular music lecturer at important musical institutions in Milan and elsewhere.
Biancamaria RIZZARDI
University of Pisa
Biancamaria Rizzardi is Full Professor of English Literature at the University of Pisa where she teaches English Literature and Literatures of the English-speaking countries. Her areas of special expertise, and the fields in which she has most frequently performed her research activities are Shakespeare and the Elizabethans, Romantic and Late Romantic Poetry, Victorian Poetry, Postcolonial Studies, Translation Studies. Among her latest publications: “La tela e la pagina. Il ritratto di Sargent e la scrittura di James” (Rivista di Studi Vittoriani, 2018), Spots of Time: Lectures on the English Literary Tradition (Vol.I, 2019), “Nuovi versi per Venere: Swinburne, Rossetti e i Preraffaelliti” (Victorian Challenges: La ricerca del nuovo nella letteratura inglese dell'Ottocento. Studi in onore di Francesco Marroni, 2020).
Alan SHELSTON
University of Manchester
Sally SHUTTLEWORTH
University of Oxford
sally.shuttleworth@st-annes.ox.ac.uk
Sally Shuttleworth is Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of English Literature at the University of Oxford. She has previously held posts at the Universities of Princeton, Leeds, and Sheffield, and was Head of the Humanities Division (2005-2011) at the University of Oxford, and is currently Vice-President and Treasurer of the British Academy. She has published extensively on the inter-relations of science and culture in the nineteenth century. Between 2014-19 she directed two large research projects, “Constructing Scientific Communities: Citizen Science in the 19th and 21st centuries” (AHRC funded), and “Diseases of Modern Life: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives” (ERC funded).