University Centre for Victorian and Edwardian Studies (CUSVE)
Silvia ANTOSA
University for Foreigners of Siena
Silvia Antosa is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the University for Foreigners of Siena. She has published extensively on nineteenth-century fiction and travel accounts and contemporary British novels. Antosa has edited several interdisciplinary volumes on queer theories and practices. She is a member of the Board of the Italian Association of English Studies (AIA), the co-editor of the Series AngloSophia. Studi di Letteratura e Cultura Inglese (Mimesis) and a member of the editorial board of Textus. English Studies in Italy. She is currently working on a project with the University of Birmingham (UK) entitled: “Cultural discourses on Desire between Women: A Queer Comparative Analysis”, supported by the British Academy / Leverhulme Trust.
Chiara BATTISTI
University of Verona
Chiara Battisti is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Verona, Italy. Her research interests include intermediality, fashion studies, gender studies, disability studies and law, literature and culture. Chiara Battisti is a member of AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica), of AIDEL (Associazione Italiana Diritto e Letteratura), CEMS (Centre for European Modernism Studies), ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) and Skenè Research Centre.
Claudia CAPANCIONI
Bishop Grosseteste University
claudia.capancioni@bishopg.ac.uk
Claudia Capancioni is Reader in English Literature at Bishop Grosseteste University, where she leads the English Department and the Research and Knowledge Exchange Unit, “Voicing the Past: Culture, Legacy, and Narrative.” She specialises in Victorian and contemporary British literature, life, travel, and women’s writing, gender, transnational, adaptation and translation studies. She has also published on intergenerational intellectual legacy, the Gothic, detective fiction, women’s suffrage and provincial newspapers in Lincolnshire, Joyce Lussu, and Anglo-Italian literary and cultural connections. As well as a member of CUSVE, she is the Membership Secretary of the British Association for Victorian Studies.
Francesca CARACENI
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Francesca Caraceni is Lecturer in English Literature at the Catholic University of Milan. Her current project focuses on the literary legacy of John Henry Newman, particularly in Nineteenth to Twentieth Century Irish authors. She has published essays and reviews on James Joyce, Samuel Butler, Alessandro Manzoni, Ted Hughes and others. Her main research interests are Victorian Studies, Modernism, and literary and multimedia translation in their theory and practice.
Mariaconcetta COSTANTINI
“G. d’Annunzio University” of Chieti-Pescara
mariaconcetta.costantini@unich.it
Mariaconcetta Costantini is Full Professor of English Literature at the “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara. Her research mainly focuses on Victorianliterature and culture, with a special interest in sensation fiction, the gothic, and gender studies. She is the author of six monographs, critical editions, translations, and over one hundred journal articles and book chapters published both in Italy and abroad. She is General Editor (with Andrew King) of the online peer-reviewed journal Victorian Popular Fictions, and Editor of the book series “Il segno e le lettere” (LED) and “AngloSophia. Studies in English Literature and Culture” (co-editor Silvia Antosa, Mimesis).
Francesca CRISANTE
University of Messina
Francesca Crisante is Researcher in English Literature at the University of Messina, Italy. She obtained her Doctorate in Humanities from the “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara in 2015. She was appointed Research Fellow in English Literature in 2017. The topic of her ongoing research is “The Victorians and Ancient Rome: Aspects of Latin Poetry in English Nineteenth-Century Culture”. She has published articles on Alexander Pope, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Catullus in English poetry as well as on such British authors as Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Horace Walpole, and Virginia Woolf. She is secretary of the editorial staff of Traduttologia.
Renzo D’AGNILLO
”G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara
Renzo D’Agnillo is Associate Professor of English Literature at G. d’Annunzio University. He is the author of Bruce Chatwin: Settlers, Nomads and Exiles (Tracce, 2000), The Poetry of Matthew Arnold(Aracne, 2005), Arthur Hugh Clough: The Poetry of a Questioning Spirit (Peter Lang, 2017) and editor of D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow: Re-readings of a Radical Text (Aracne, 2010). He has written on various nineteenth-century authors, including Charles Dickens, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, G.M. Hopkins, Elizabeth Gaskell, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf etc.
Francesca D’ALFONSO
University of Molise
Francesca D’Alfonso is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Molise. Her main areas of research are late Victorian literature and culture and the American novel of the second half of the 20th century. Among her most recent publications are: Nel Mondo di John Fante. Autobiografismo e furore letterario (Aracne: 2013), Arnold Bennett. Narratore e interprete delle Cinque Città (Carabba: 2016), Jane Austen. Silenzi, lacune, allusioni (co-edited with Francesco Marroni, Carabba: 2018) and a new Italian translation of George Eliot’s Silas Marner (Solfanelli: 2019). She is a member of CUSVE and of the editorial board of Traduttologia and NuovoMeridionalismoStudi.
Maria Luigia DI NISIO
“G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara
Maria Luigia Di Nisio holds a PhD in Human Sciences-English Literature from the “G. D’Annunzio” University, Chieti-Pescara, and is now a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in English Literature in the Department of Literature, Arts and Social Sciences (DILASS). Her research project focuses on Victorian women writers and the ancient classics. She has published articles on Amy Levy, Augusta Webster, Emily Pfeiffer and A. Mary F. Robinson. Her forthcoming monograph considers the work of Mathilde Blind, Amy Levy and Augusta Webster, exploring the relationship between poetry, evolution and women’s emancipation.
Sidia FIORATO
University of Verona
Sidia Fiorato is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Verona. Her research interests include law and literature with a specific focus on the legal thriller, literature and the performing arts (dance, theatre, musical), the fairy tale, Shakespeare studies, literature and the visual arts, gender studies. She is a member of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English), AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica), AIDEL (Associazione Italiana Diritto e Letteratura) and Skenè Research Centre.
Michela MARRONI
University of Tuscia
Michela Marroni is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy). She has authored John Ruskin: ricerca estetica e mito di Venezia (Rome, 2007) and Come leggere “Robinson Crusoe” (Chieti, 2015). She has published numerous articles and book chapters on Victorian and late Victorian culture and fiction (John Ruskin, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, William Morris, George Gissing, Edith Morley, etc.) and on the history of translation, with a particular focus on Sarah Austin, George Eliot and Eleanor Marx. She has edited two short stories by Elizabeth Gaskell: The Half-Brothers (Rome, 2016) and Mr. Harrison’s Confessions (Rome 2018). She has translated The Diary of Anne Rodway by Wilkie Collins (Rome, 2021). Her latest book is Dialoghi traduttologici (Chieti, 2018) on gender and translation. She sits on the editorial board of the journals RSV: Rivista di Studi Vittoriani, Merope and Traduttologia.
Francesca SAGGINI
University of Edinburgh – University of Tuscia
fsaggini@unitus.it; fsaggini@ed.ac.uk
Dr Francesca Saggini is Professor in English Literature at the Università degli Studi della Tuscia (Viterbo), Italy. Since 2017 she has been Senior Research Associate, Lucy Cavendish College (University of Cambridge). Francesca is the author of, among others, The Gothic Novel and the Stage. Romantic Appropriations (2015, Honourable Mention at the 2016 ESSE Book Awards) and Backstage in the Novel: Frances Burney and the Theater Arts (2012, Walken Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work in eighteenth-century studies). Francesca is undertaking a two-year Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh 2021 to 2023 ("OpeRaNew Opening Romanticism: Reimagining Romantic Drama for New Audiences", funded by Horizon 2020). She is the author of five books and she has edited 10 collections and special journal issues. Among the over 80 essays and chapters she has authored, many engage with popular fiction and genre literature, including the Fantastic and the Gothic modes.
Elisa SEGNINI
University of Glasgow
Elisa Segnini is Senior Lecturer in ItaIian at the School of Modern Languages & Cultures of the University of Glasgow. Her research engages with current debate in Comparative Literature, with a dual focus on fin-de-siècle culture and contemporary fiction. She is the author of Fragments, Genius and Madness: Masks and Mask-Making in the Modernist Imagination (Legenda 2021), a book-length study on masks that offers innovative readings of European writers such as Max Beerbohm, Gabriele d’Annunzio, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, at the crossroad of aesthetics, anthropology, and medicine. She is one of the general editors of Comparative Critical Studies, a journal dedicated to the theory and practice of the study of comparative literature published by Edinburgh University Press.
Saverio TOMAIUOLO
University of Cassino and Southern Lazio
Saverio Tomaiuolo is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at Cassino University, Italy; he is President of Language Courses at Cassino University. His areas of research are translation and adaptation studies, Victorian Literature, and neo-Victorianism. He has published Ricreare in Lingua. La traduzione dalla poesia al testo multimediale (2008), In Lady Audley’s Shadow. Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Victorian Literary Genres (2010), Victorian Unfinished Novels. The Imperfect Page (2012), Come leggere ‘Heart of Darkness(2014) and Deviance in Neo-Victorian Culture: Transgression, Canon, Innovation (2018). His entry on “neo-Victorianism” is included in the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature. His forthcoming book is entitled La televisione dell’Ottocento. I vittoriani sullo schermo italiano.
Honorary membership is conferred to scholars with a distinguished, excellent research record in the field of Victorian and Edwardian studies.