University Centre for Victorian and Edwardian Studies (CUSVE)
Anna Enrichetta SOCCIO
“G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara
Anna Enrichetta Soccio is Full Professor of English Literature at the Department of Humanities, Art and Social Science of the G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy). After her PhD in English Literature, she spent two years as a postdoctoral research fellow. She has been teaching at the University of Chieti-Pescara since 2004 (first as a Lecturer, then as an Associate Professor and finally as a Full Professor). She is the Programme Coordinator of the MA in Philology, Linguistics and Literary Traditions, and Rector’s Delegate for Erasmus and International Mobility. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in English literature and English Drama. She is the Director of CUSVE, the editor of the book series “Nuova Armorica”. She is Editor in Chief of the A-class journal RSV: Rivista di Studi Vittoriani, and member of a number of editorial boards and literary societies. She has organised many international conferences and workshops in Italy and abroad. Her main research interests are in nineteenth- and twentieth-century English literature, particularly the Victorian novel – both mainstream and popular – and British poetry of the 20th and 21st century.
Francesco MARRONI
”G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara
Francesco Marroni was Full Professor of English Literature at the “Gabriele d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara. He is the author of books and articles on Victorian literature, British drama and European modernism. He has edited and translated works by writers such as Walter Scott, Elizabeth Gaskell, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, George Gissing, George Bernard Shaw, George Orwell. His most recent book is L’angelo del deserto: saggio su Paul Bowles (2018). He is editor in chief of RSV: Rivista di Studi Vittoriani, Merope and Traduttologia. He serves as Vice President of the Gaskell Society (Manchester, UK). He founded the Centre for Victorian and Edwardian Studies (CUSVE, Chieti) in 1993 and directed it until 2019.
Raffaella ANTINUCCI
University of Naples “Parthenope”
raffaella.antinucci@uniparthenope.it
Raffaella Antinucci is Professor of English Literature at the University of Naples “Parthenope” and formerly Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK). Her main areas of research include Victorian culture and literature, corpus stylistics, and comparative literatures, with a special focus on the Anglo-Italian relations in the years of the Risorgimento. She is the author of a monograph on the literary representations of the Victorian gentleman (2009), a study on Jane Austen’s Emma (2017) and of several articles on Victorian and modernist writers. She is on the steering committee of the international project “Terminology without Borders”. She is on the editorial board of the academic journals Traduttologia and Fictions, and she co-edits the English literature and culture series “Riverrun” (Aracne).
Elisa BIZZOTTO
Iuav University of Venice
Elisa Bizzotto is Associate Professor of English Literature at Iuav University of Venice. She works on Victorian and pre-Modernist literature, specializing in Aestheticism and Decadence, and her interests are in genre, gender, mythography, intermediality and interculturality. She was a member of the scientific committee of international conferences and has been invited to lecture in Europe and North America. She is an Officer of the International Walter Pater Society and a founder of the Italian Oscar Wilde Society. She is a member of the Editorial Boards of Studies in Walter Pater and Aestheticism, English Literature and Volupté. She is currently translating two of G.B. Shaw’s plays for the publisher Giunti-Bompiani.
Tania ZULLI
“G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara
Tania Zulli is Full Professor of English at the University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy), where she also directs the University Language Centre (CLA). She conducted her doctoral and postdoctoral research at the University of Manchester. After completing her PhD and post-doctoral studies, she worked at the University of Roma Tre (first as a Lecturer and then as an Associate Professor). She has organised several national and international conferences, she has taken part in national and international projects, and has coordinated research and teaching agreements with various international universities (France, Spain, USA, India, South Africa). She is co-founder and member of the Executive Board of AISC (Italian Association of Conradian Studies), and Secretary of CUSVE. She is the Associate Director of Merope and a member of other international editorial boards and societies. Her research interests focus on translation studies and the stylistic analysis of literary texts. She has published on colonial and postcolonial literature and language, transnational language theory, language and migration, and cross-cultural pragmatics. Her most recent books are a volume on E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India (Solfanelli 2014), a translation of Joseph Conrad’s short story Amy Foster (Marsilio 2018), the volume Joseph Conrad, Language and Transnationalism (Solfanelli 2019), and the collection Migration, Modernity, and Transnationalism in the Works of Joseph Conrad, edited with Kim Salmons (Bloomsbury 2021).
Marco CANANI
“G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara
Marco Canani is Associate Professor of English at the “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. He earned his PhD from the University of Milan with the dissertation Vernon Lee and the Italian Renaissance: Plasticity, Gender, Genre. The study, which received a grant from the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), is based on research conducted at Colby College (USA) and the University of Oxford (UK). He is a member of CUSVE and of the Interuniversity Centre for the Study of Romanticism at the University of Bologna. His research interests include Romantic and fin-de-siècle literature, Anglo-Italian studies and translation studies. In addition to articles on John Keats, P.B. Shelley, Vernon Lee, and A.J. Cronin, he has published the book Ellenismi britannici. L’ellenismo nella poesia, nelle arti e nella cultura britannica dagli augustei al Romanticismo (2014), co-authored the volume Introduzione allo studio della letteratura inglese (2014), and co-edited a number of volumes on nineteenth and early twentieth-century British literature.