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Fernando Cioni, Dottore di ricerca in anglistica, ha insegnato Letteratura Inglese e Storia del Teatro Inglese nelle università di Pisa, Firenze, Bergen, alla George Washington University e alla Catholic University of America. Attualmente è Professore Associato presso il Dipartimento di Formazione, Lingue, Intercultura, Letterature e Psicologia dellUniversità di Firenze. Nel 1996 è Visiting Scholar al Richmond College (The American University in London), nel 1998 Visiting Fellow presso la Folger Shakespeare Library di Washington, nel 2001 Fulbright Visiting Scholar presso la George Washington University (Washington DC), nel 2004 Francis Bacon Foundation Fellow in Renaissance Studies alla Huntington Library (San Marino CA), nel 2006 Bibliographical Society of America Fellow, e nel 2007 Folger Shakespeare Library Visiting Fellow. È membro dellAssociazione Italiana di Anglistica, della European Society for the Study of English, della Shakespeare American Association e della Renaissance Society of America, del Bergen Shakespeare and Drama Network". E' responsabile della sezione fiorentina del Centro Interuniversitario per lo studio del Romanticismo (Università di Firenze, Bologna, Roma, Parma, Valle d'Aosta) e delegato del Rettore nel comitato scientifico del Centro.
Fernando Cioni è professore associato di Letteratura Inglese all’Università di Firenze. Ha conseguito l'abilitazione a professore di prima fascia.Si occupa di filologia shakespeariana, di teatro rinascimentale, romantico e contemporaneo, di teoria del teatro e di storia del teatro inglese.
Si è laureato con lode in Letteratura inglese all’Università di Firenze nel 1985 con una tesi su "Antony and Cleopatra" di William Shakespeare. Ha conseguito il titolo di dottore di ricerca presso l’Università di Pisa nel 1993 con una tesi dal titolo “Textual Liaisons: intertestualità e intratestualità in The Philanthropist e Les Liaisons Dangereuses di Christopher Hampton, sotto la supervisione di Keir Elam e Alessandro Serpieri.
E stato borsista post-dottorato (1994-1996), assegnista di ricerca (1999-2003), e Ricercatore Universitario (2005-2015) presso l'Università di Firenze.
Responsabilità istituzionali.
Membro della giunta della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia (2006-2009), Responsabile della sezione fiorentina del Centro Interuniversitario per lo studio del Romanticismo (Università di Firenze, Bologna, Bari, Parma, Valle d'Aosta, Cassino) e delegato del Rettore nel comitato scientifico del Centro (2009-2017 e 2020-) e delegato del Rettore nel Consiglio Scientifico del Centro; membro della Commissione di indirizzo e valutazione del Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Studi Interculturali (2013-2016); membro della Commissione didattica del CdS in Lingue, Letterature e Studi Interculturali e Lingue e Letterature Euroamericane (2014-); referente TFA Classe di Concorso A346 (2012-2016); presidente Consiglio TFA Area Lingue, Università di Firenze (2015-2016); coordinatore commissione “Innovazione didattica”, Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Studi Interculturali (2016-2018); referente VQR, prima del Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Studi Interculturali ora del Dipartimento di Formazione, Lingue, Intercultura, Letteratura e Psicologia (2010-); Delegato alla Terza Missione e Public Engagement: referente del dipartimento FORLILPSI (2019-2021); coordinatore Sezione di Studi Interculturali, Dipartimento FORLILPSI (2019-); revisore VQR 2004-2010 e 2011-2014; coordinatore del Dottorato di ricerca in lingue, letterature e culture comparate (2020-), direttore PF60 Lingua Inglese.
Progetti di ricerca nazionali. Ha fatto parte di cinque PRIN (1994-1998; 1999, 2002, 2005, 2008) ed è stato responsabile locale del PRIN 2008. E’ stato anche responsabile scientifico dell’unità di ricerca locale per PRIN 2010-2011, 2012, 2015 e 2020 valutati positivamente ma non ammessi al finanziamento. E’ responsabile scientifico dell’unità di ricerca di Firenze del PRIN 2022 “Reviving the Liberal”. E' coordinatore per gli accordi culturali e scientifici dell'Università di Firenze con la University of Malta, la University of Szeged, (Ungheria) la Università di Valencia (Spagna) e la University of York (Canada). E' stato National Coordinator Erasmus IP 2012-2014 “Writing in the Mediterranean”, University of Malta. (Intensive Programme 2013 LLP/ERA/MT/IP/2012 e Intensive Programme 2014 LLP/ERA/MT/IP/2013). E' stato Coordinatore locale EU Erasmus + Strategic Partnerships (2016-2018) “Mediterranean Imaginaries: Literature, Arts, Culture”, Grant Agreement Number 2016-1-MT01-KA203-015223. E’ national coordinator del progetto Erasmus+ “(Re-) Visiting the Mediterranean: Literature, Culture, Environment”, Grant Agreement Number 2024-1-MT01-KA220-HED-000.
Nel corso della sua carriera è stato Visiting researcher, University of Hull, Gennaio-Aprile 1992, Visiting Scholar, Richmond College (The American University in London), Gennaio-Maggio 1996, The Shakespeare Folger Library Fellow, Washington DC, 1998, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, The George Washington University, 2001, Francis Bacon Foundation Fellow in Renaissance Studies, The Huntington Library, San Marino CA, 2004, Bibliographical Society of America Fellow, 2006, The Shakespeare Folger Library Fellow, Washington DC, 2006.
Responsabilità editoriali. Membro dell’editorial board di Textus. English Studies in Italy, responsabile della sezione “letteratura”. 2015-2019, e membro dell’Advisory Board della rivista EMCO (Early Modern Culture Online); membro dell’editorial board di LEA - Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente; è condirettore della collana “Shakespeare Studies” (Skenè Texts and Studies).
Ha lavorato alla Variorum Edition di The Taming of the Strew per la Modern Language Association of America. Sta lavorando a un volume dal titolo provvisorio Jewish Characters on the Early English Modern Stage, e a un volume dal titolo "Shakespeare and the Romantics from page to stage, from stage to page".
Negli ultimi quindici anni è stato invited speaker o key note speaker in vari convegni in Italia e all’estero: invited speaker al Convegno Internazionale “Framing and Reframing Shakespeare: History, Theory, Performance” Montpellier, CNSR, 2009; key note speaker alla English Graduate Conference, Università di Bucarest, 2010; invited speaker al Convegno internazionale “Shakespeare Whose Contemporary”, Dubrovnick, 2010; Coordinatore, con Nikolay Zakharov, del seminario Shakespeare as a Cultural Catalyst in Non-English Speaking Countries, International Shakespeare Conference, Stratford, agosto 2010; Coordinatore, con Kent Cartwright, del seminario “Romantic Comedies”, World Shakespeare Conference, Praga, 2011; key note speaker al Convegno Internazionale “Shakespeare, Language and Performance" Szeged 2013); invited speaker al Convegno Internazionale “Shakespeare and the idea of the canon”, Lisbona, 2015; invited speaker al Convegno Internazionale “The Early Modern World Before, During and After Shakespeare”, Budapest, 2016; invited speaker al Convegno Internazionale su “Shakespeare and the Reformation – Shakespeare’s Reformations, Szeged, 2017; key note speaker al Convegno Internazionale “Play in tongues”, Valencia, 2017; invited speaker al Convegno Internazionale “Rinascimento Straniero. Ariosto, Shakespeare, Cervantes ‘fuori patria’” Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2018; invited speaker al Convegno internazionale "Shakespeare and Seeing", Venezia, 2018; invited speaker al Convegno Internazionale "“Shakespeare Tenses: Present. Perfect. Continuous", Szeged, ottobre 2019, invited speaker al Convegno Internazionale "Vírus-Shakespeare / Viral Shakespeare", su "Shakespeare and the theatricalization of passions", Szeged, ottobre 2021; invited speaker al Festival del Classico, su “’Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead’. Simulazione e dissimulazione della libertà in Giulio Cesare”, Torino, dicembre 2021; coordinator del seminario “The poetics and politics of experimentation on the early modern stage”, XXX Convegno AIA, Catania, settembre 2022; invited speaker all’evento “Green Shakespeare. Ecologia e sostenibilità” su “Fate, sogni e folletti. Il bosco incantato di ‘Sogno di una notte di mezza estate’”, Verona, aprile 2023, invited speaker al Convegno internazionale TWB (Theatre without borders) su “Italian theatrical and dramatic conventions in early modern English drama”, Verona, giugno 2023; invited speaker alla Verona Shakespeare Summer School 2023 (Antony and Cleopatra), 2024 (Twelfth Night e The Comedy of Errors), 2025 (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), 2026 (Green and Blue Shakespeares); invited speaker al Convegno Internazionale “Britain & Italy: Literary and Cultural Relations", Malta, maggio 2024 su “Refashioning Italian theatrical and dramatic conventions: prologues, epilogues, and induction in early modern English drama; Conference invited speaker al Convegno Internazionale “Sprach- und Literarkulturaustausch zwischen dem volkssprachlichen und lateinischen Drama in der Frühen Neuzeit” su “Italianate Plays on Early Modern English University Stages”, Tubinga (Germania), settembre 2024; invited speaker al Convegno Internazionale “Britain & Italy: Literary and Cultural Relations", Malta, maggio 2025 su “Hamlet and Hamlets in 19th century Italy: the canonization of Shakespeare on page and on stage”. E’ membro dell'AIA: (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica), della ESSE (European Society for the Study of English), della IASEMS (Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies), della ESRA (European Shakespeare Research Association), della ISA (International Shakespeare Association), della RSA (Renaissance Society of America), della SAA (Shakespeare Association of America), di BARS (British Association of Romantic Studies). E’ stato membro del direttivo nazionale dell'AIA (2015-2019).
Dettaglio titoli Curriculari
Formazione scientifica
Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Universita' di Firenze, 1985
Dottorato di Ricerca: Università di Pisa 1989-1991
Ruoli Accademici
Professore Associato di Letteratura Inglese (L-LIN/10),
Dipartimento di Formazione, Lingue, Intercultura, Letterature e Psicologia (FORLILPSI), Università di Firenze (2015-)
Papers e lectures (2015-2025)
Comunicazione al Convegno Internazionale "Editing, Scholarship and Performance" su "Transediting Shakespeare: editing A Midsummer Night's Dream for a foreign audience", Firenze, ottobre 2014.
Conferenza alla "Shakespeare in Venice Summer School - The Shylock Project" su "Shylock's Afterlife", Venezia, Fondazione Cini, luglio 2015.
Conferenza su "Dramatic texts and theatre metamorphosis", University of Malta, maggio 2015.
Conferenza su "Shakespeare and the theory of comedy", University of Bergen (Norway), ottobre 2015.
Comunicazione al Convegno dell'Associazione Italiana di Anglistica su "When the lovers meet Prospero. Jeremy Sams' The Enchanted Island, a Shakespearean pastiche", Napoli, settembre 2015.
Roundtable su "The role and strategies of teaching Shakespeare in today's world of several (alleged) crises", University of Szeged, 2015.
Comunicazione al Convegno Internazionale "Shakespeare and the idea of the canon" su "Hamlet and Hamlets in 19th century Italy: the canonization of Shakespeare on page and on stage", Lisbona, ottobre 2015.
Comunicazione al Convegno Twelfth Night dal testo alla scena su “Twelfth Night nelle messinscene dell’Ottocento: un’eredità critica e teatrale”, Ferrara 2015.
Comunicazione al Convegno nazionale IASEMS (Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies) “All the world’s a page”, su “Is there a text in this paratext? Paratexts in Early modern playbooks”, Catania, giugno 2016.
Comunicazione al Convegno Internazionale "Fair Padua, Nursery of Arts’: Shakespeare and Padova", su "The Background of the Shrew: texts and intertexts", Padova, giugno 2016.
Comunicazione al Convegno Internazionale “The Early Modern World Before, During and After Shakespeare”, su “Jewish Characters on the English Early Modern Stage: Before, During and After Shakespeare”, Budapest, ottobre 2016.
Comunicazione al Convegno Internazionale su “Shakespeare and the Reformation – Shakespeare’s Reformations”, su “Remaking and Refashioning the Dream: Appropriations of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Puppets, Cartoons, and Manga”, Szeged (HU), settembre, 2017.
Comunicazione al Convegno Internazionale “Play in tongues”, su “From stage to unfaithful page: Italian translations of early modern English drama”, Valencia (E), aprile, 2017.
Comunicazione al Convegno Internazionale “Rinascimento Straniero. Ariosto, Shakespeare, Cervantes ‘fuori patria’” su ““Shakespeare espurgato”: Otello e Amleto nel Settecento e nell’Ottocento”, Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa febbraio 2018.
Comunicazione al Seminario AIA 2018 "Representing and narrating the other", su "Theatrical and dramatic Jews: the representation of the other on the Early Modern English Stage", Macerata, maggio 2018.
Comunicazione al Convegno nazionale AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica) su “Post-holocaust Shylocks: rewriting and appropriations of The Merchant of Venice”, Pisa, settembre 2018.
Comunicazione al Convegno internazionale "Shakespeare and Seeing" su "Depiction of Venice in Nineteenth-century performances of The Merchant of Venice", Venezia, Ottobre 2018.
Comunicazione al Convegno "Graphic Novel: un cross-over per la modernità letteraria", su "Remaking e refashioning A Midsummer Night’s Dream: cartoons, fumetti, manga e graphic novels", Firenze, Novembre 2018.
Comunicazione al Convegno "Forme e modi dell'autorialità della cultura europea. Dalla prima età moderna alla contemporaneità", su "Shakespeare in performance: Autorialità e multiautorialità nei copioni e nelle edizioni teatrali del ‘700 e dell’800, Firenze, Novembre 2018.
Comunicazione alla International Summer School "Romanticism on the coast" su "Shakespeare's tempests, storms, and shipwrecks on the Romantic stage", Lerici, giugno 2019.
Comunicazione al Convegno Internazionale "“Shakespeare Tenses: Present. Perfect. Continuous" su "Authorship and multi-authorship in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century promptbooks and performance editions”, Szeged, ottobre 2019.
Comunicazione al Convegno Internazionale "Vírus-Shakespeare / Viral Shakespeare", su "Shakespeare and the theatricalization of passions", Szeged, ottobre 2021.
Comunicazione al Festival del Classico, su “’Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead’. Simulazione e dissimulazione della libertà in Giulio Cesare”, Torino, dicembre 2021;
Comunicazione al XXX Convegno AIA, su “Variations and experimentations on tragic in Shakespeare’s late plays”, Catania, settembre 2022;
Comunicazione all’evento “Green Shakespeare. Ecologia e sostenibilità” su “Fate, sogni e folletti. Il bosco incantato di ‘Sogno di una notte di mezza estate’”, Verona, aprile 2023.
Comunicazione al Convegno Internazionale TWB (Theatre without borders) su “Italian theatrical and dramatic conventions in early modern English drama”, Verona, giugno 2023;
Comunicazione al Convegno Internazionale “Theatrum Mundi” su "The image of Venice on stage: scenery of The Merchant of Venice in 19th century English theater”, Szeged (Ungheria), luglio 2023;
Comunicazione alla Verona Shakespeare Summer School 2023 su “Past the size of dreaming: Antony and Cleopatra on Stage”, Verona, luglio 2023;
Comunicazione alla Verona Shakespeare Summer School 2024 su “Twelfth Night on stage and the page”;
Comunicazione al Convegno Internazionale “Britain & Italy: Literary and Cultural Relations", Malta, maggio 2024 su “Refashioning Italian theatrical and dramatic conventions: prologues, epilogues, and induction in early modern English drama;
Comunicazione al Convegno Internazionale “Sprach- und Literarkulturaustausch zwischen dem volkssprachlichen und lateinischen Drama in der Frühen Neuzeit” su “Italianate Plays on Early Modern English University Stages”, Tubinga (Germania), settembre 2024;
Comunicazione al Convegno Internazionale “Performing Romanticism. Stage and Screen, Re-mediations in Contemporary Britain” (Parma, novembre 2024);
Comunicazione al Convegno Internazionale “Britain & Italy: Literary and Cultural Relations", su “An Italian Actor in London: Ernesto Rossi, Hamlet and the British Stage”, Malta, 2025;
Comunicazione alla Spring School “Re-mediating the Mediterranean” su “What sea friends is this? Shakespeare and the Mediterranean”, Malta, maggio 2025;
Comunicazione al Convegno PRIN 2022 “Reviving the Liberal” su “George Frederick Nott, Mary Shelley and the Pisan Circle” (Marzo 2026)
Comunicazione al Convegno internazionale "Heima/Nostos-Algos”, su “In search of Shylock: identity, otherness and contemporary appropriation”, Verona, May 2026.
Comunicazione alla Spring School “Re-mediating the Mediterranean” su “Shakespeare and the early modern Mediterranean”, Malta, maggio 2026.
Partecipazione a gruppi di ricerca
Membro del gruppo di ricerca su L’ultima produzione di Samuel Beckett, teatro, poesia, narrativa, Università di Pisa, diretto da Keir Elam, finanziamento M.U.R.S.T. 60%. (1992-1994).
Membro del gruppo di ricerca su Problemi testuali e filologici in Henry V e King John di Shakespeare, Università di Firenze, diretto da Marcella Quadri, finanziamento M.U.R.S.T. 60% (1994-96).
Membro del gruppo di ricerca su "La nuova filologia shakespeariana Filologia shakespeariana: Nuovi orientamenti testuali e implicazioni critiche", diretto da Alessandro Serpieri , finanziamento M.U.R.S.T. ex-40% (1994-1998).
Membro del gruppo di ricerca su Problematiche testuali e filologiche della commedia shakespeariana: Twelfth Night e The Taming of the Shrew, Università di Firenze, diretta da Keir Elam, finanziamento M.U.R.S.T. 60% (1995-97).
Membro del gruppo di ricerca su L'Italia nell'immaginario e nella cultura britannica del rinascimento e del romanticismo. diretto da Keir Elam finanziamento M.U.R.S.T. ex-40% (1999-2001).
Membro del gruppo di ricerca su Forme spettacolari nel periodo elisabettiano, Progetto Strategico, diretto da Alessandro Serpieri, Università di Firenze (2001-2003).
Membro del Gruppo di ricerca su “Il teatro romantico inglese (1770-1830): Presentazione, rappresentazione, autopresentazione” diretto da Lilla Maria Crisafulli, PRIN 2003 (2003-2005)
Membro del Gruppo di ricerca (Università di Bologna, Firenze, Palermo, Bari, e Parma) su "An Italian in London" diretta da Keir Elam, PRIN 2006 (2007-2009)
Membro del Gruppo di ricerca (Università di Bologna, Firenze, Val D’Aosta, Bari, e Parma) su "Italian Risorgimento" diretta da Lilla Maria Crisafulli, PRIN 2008 (2010-2013), e responsabile dell'unità di ricerca di Firenze.
Membro del "Bergen Shakespeare and drama network" (2006-)
Membro del gruppo di ricerca "EMOTHE: teatro europeo de los siglos XVI y XVII, patrimonio y bases de datos", Università di Valencia, finanziato dal Ministerio de Economia y Competividad, 2016-
Membro del gruppo di ricerca “Reviving ‘The Liberal’: literature and politics between Britain and Italy, 1821-23”, diretto da Diego Saglia, PRIN 2022, e responsabile dell’unità di ricerca di Firenze.
ShakespeareTeatro ElisabettianoTeatro contemporaneoTeoria del teatroStoria del teatro inglese
Legenda
Fernando Cioni, PhD in English Studies, has taught English Literature and History of the English Theatre at the universities of Pisa, Florence, Bergen, George Washington University and the Catholic University of America. Currently, he is Associate Professor in the Department of Education, Languages, Interculture, Literatures and Psychology of the University of Florence. He achieved the Nationale Qualification as Full Professor in English. In 1996 he was Visiting Scholar at Richmond College (The American University in London), in 1996, Visiting Fellow at Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, in 1998, Fulbright Visiting Scholar at George Washington University (Washington DC) in 2001, in 2004 Francis Bacon Foundation Fellow in Renaissance Studies at the Huntington Library (San Marino CA), in 2006 Bibliographical Society of America Fellow, and in 2007 Folger Shakespeare Library Visiting Fellow. He is a member of the Italian Association of English, the European Society for the Study of English, the Shakespeare American Association and the Renaissance Society of America, the Bergen Shakespeare and Drama Network". He is responsible for the Florentine research unit of the Inter-university Center for the study of Romanticism (Universities of Florence, Bologna, Rome, Parma, Valle d'Aosta) and delegate of the Rector in the scientific committee of the Center.
Fernando Cioni is Associate professor of English Literature at the University of Florence. He achieved the National Scientific qualification as full professor in 2023. His research interests include Shakespearean philology, Renaissance, Romantic, and contemporary theater, theater theory, and the history of English theater. He graduated with honors in English Literature from the University of Florence in 1985 with a thesis on William Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra". He received his PhD from the University of Pisa in 1993 with a thesis entitled "Textual Liaisons: Intertextuality and Intratextuality in Christopher Hampton's The Philanthropist and Les Liaisons Dangereuses," under the supervision of Keir Elam and Alessandro Serpieri. He was postdoctoral fellow (1994-1996), research fellow (1999-2003), and University Researcher (2005-2015) at the University of Florence.
University committmentsMember of the Board of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy (2006-2009), Head of the Florentine unit of the Interuniversity Centre for the Study of Romanticism (University of Florence, Bologna, Bari, Parma, Valle d'Aosta, Cassino) and Rector's delegate on the Centre's scientific committee (2009-2017 and 2020-) and Rector's delegate on the Centre's Scientific Council; member of the Steering and Evaluation Committee of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Intercultural Studies (2013-2016); member of the Teaching Committee of the Course of Studies in Languages, Literatures and Intercultural Studies and Euro-American Languages and Literatures (2014-); president of the Teacher training Council for the Languages Area, University of Florence (2015-2016); coordinator of the "Teaching Innovation" committee, Department of Languages, Literatures and Intercultural Studies (2016-2018); VQR (The Research Quality Evaluation) contact person, formerly of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Intercultural Studies and now of the Department of Education, Languages, Interculture, Literature and Psychology (2010-); Delegate to the Third Mission and Public Engagement (2019-2021); coordinator of the Intercultural Studies Section, FORLILPSI Department (2019-); The Research Quality Evaluation reviewer 2004-2010 and 2011-2014; coordinator of the PhD program in Languages, Literatures and Comparative Cultures (2020-), director of the Teacher Training Program (PF60 ) for Eglish language and culture.
National research projects. He was part of five PRINs (1994-1998; 1999, 2002, 2005, 2008) and was local PI of PRIN 2008. He was also the scientific director of the local research unit for PRIN 2010-2011, 2012, 2015 and 2020, which were positively evaluated but not eligible for funding. He is the scientific director of the Florence research unit of PRIN 2022 "Reviving the Liberal". He is coordinator for cultural and scientific agreements between the University of Florence and the University of Malta, the University of Szeged (Hungary), the University of Valencia (Spain) and the University of York (Canada). He was National Coordinator Erasmus IP 2012-2014 "Writing in the Mediterranean", University of Malta. (Intensive Program 2013 LLP/ERA/MT/IP/2012 and Intensive Program 2014 LLP/ERA/MT/IP/2013). He was EU Erasmus + Strategic Partnerships Local Coordinator (2016-2018) "Mediterranean Imaginaries: Literature, Arts, Culture", Grant Agreement Number 2016-1-MT01-KA203-015223. He is the national coordinator of the Erasmus+ project "(Re-) Visiting the Mediterranean: Literature, Culture, Environment", Grant Agreement Number 2024-1-MT01-KA220-HED-000.
During his career he has been Visiting researcher, University of Hull, January-April 1992, Visiting Scholar, Richmond College (The American University in London), January-May 1996, The Shakespeare Folger Library Fellow, Washington DC, 1998, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, The George Washington University, 2001, Francis Bacon Foundation Fellow in Renaissance Studies, The Huntington Library, San Marino CA, 2004, Bibliographical Society of America Fellow, 2006, The Shakespeare Folger Library Fellow, Washington DC, 2006.
Editorial responsibilities. Member of Textus' editorial board. English Studies in Italy, head of the "literature" section. 2015-2019, and member of the Advisory Board of the journal EMCO (Early Modern Culture Online); member of the editorial board of LEA - Languages and Literatures of the East and West; co-director of the "Shakespeare Studies" series (Skenè Texts and Studies). He worked on the Variorum Edition of “The Taming of the Strew” for the Modern Language Association of America. He is working on a volume with the working title Jewish Characters on the Early English Modern Stage, and a volume entitled "Shakespeare and the Romantics from page to stage, from stage to page".
Over the last fifteen years he has been invited as speaker or key note speaker at various conferences in Italy and abroad: invited speaker at the International Conference “Framing and Reframing Shakespeare: History, Theory, Performance” Montpellier, CNSR, 2009; key note speaker at the English Graduate Conference, University of Bucharest, 2010; invited speaker at the International Conference “Shakespeare Whose Contemporary”, Dubrovnick, 2010; Coordinator, with Nikolay Zakharov, of the seminar Shakespeare as a Cultural Catalyst in Non-English Speaking Countries, International Shakespeare Conference, Stratford, August 2010; Coordinator, with Kent Cartwright, of the seminar “Romantic Comedies”, World Shakespeare Conference, Prague, 2011; key note speaker at the International Conference “Shakespeare, Language and Performance" Szeged 2013); invited speaker at the International Conference “Shakespeare and the idea of the canon”, Lisbon, 2015; invited speaker at the International Conference “The Early Modern World Before, During and After Shakespeare”, Budapest, 2016; invited speaker at the International Conference on “Shakespeare and the Reformation – Shakespeare's Reformations, Szeged, 2017; key note speaker at the International Conference “Play in Tongues”, Valencia, 2017; invited speaker at the International Conference “Foreign Renaissance. Ariosto, Shakespeare, Cervantes ‘out of his homeland’” Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2018; invited speaker at the international conference "Shakespeare and Seeing", Venice, 2018; invited speaker at the international conference "“Shakespeare Tenses: Present. Perfect. Continuous, Szeged, October 2019, invited speaker at the International Conference "Vírus-Shakespeare / Viral Shakespeare," on "Shakespeare and the Theatricalization of Passions," Szeged, October 2021; invited speaker at the Festival del Classico, on “’Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead’. Simulation and Dissimulation of Freedom in Julius Caesar”, Turin, December 2021; seminar coordinator “The Poetics and Politics of Experimentation on the Early Modern Stage”, XXX AIA Conference, Catania, September 2022; invited speaker at the event “Green Shakespeare. Ecology and sustainability” on “Fairies, dreams and goblins. The Enchanted Forest of ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream’”, Verona, April 2023, invited speaker at the TWB (Theatre without borders) international conference on “Italian theatrical and dramatic conventions in early modern English drama”, Verona, June 2023; invited speaker at the Verona Shakespeare Summer School 2023 (Antony and Cleopatra), 2024 (Twelfth Night and The Comedy of Errors), 2025 (A Midsummer Night's Dream), 2026 (Green and Blue Shakespeares); invited speaker at the International Conference “Britain & Italy: Literary and Cultural Relations", Malta, May 2024 on “Refashioning Italian theatrical and dramatic conventions: prologues, epilogues, and induction in early modern English drama; Conference invited speaker at the International Conference “Sprach- und Literarkulturaustausch zwischen dem volkssprachlichen und lateinischen Drama in der Frühen Neuzeit” on “Italianate Plays on Early Modern English University Stages”, Tübingen (Germany), September 2024; invited speaker at the International Conference “Britain & Italy: Literary and Cultural Relations", Malta, May 2025 on “Hamlet and Hamlets in 19th century Italy: the canonization of Shakespeare on page and on stage”.
He is member of the AIA (Italian Association of English Studies), of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English), of IASEMS (Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies), of ESRA (European Shakespeare Research Association), of ISA (International Shakespeare Association), of RSA (Renaissance Society of America), of SAA (Shakespeare Association of America), by BARS (British Association of Romantic Studies). He was member of the AIA national board (2015-2019).
Details of Curricular Titles
Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Florence, 1985
PhD: University of Pisa 1989-1991
Academic Roles Associate Professor of English Literature (L-LIN/10) Department of Education, Languages, Interculture, Literatures and Psychology (FORLILPSI), University of Florence (2015-)
Papers and Lectures (2014-2026)
Paper delivered at the International Conference "Editing, Scholarship and Performance" su "Transediting Shakespeare: editing A Midsummer Night's Dream for a foreign audience", Firenze, October 2014.
Lecture on "Shakespeare in Venice Summer School - The Shylock Project" on "Shylock's Afterlife", Venezia, Fondazione Cini, July 2015.
Lecture on "Dramatic texts and theatre metamorphosis", University of Malta, May 2015.
Lecture on "Shakespeare and the theory of comedy", University of Bergen (Norway), October 2015.
Paper delivered at the AIA (Italian Association of English Studies) Conference on "When the lovers meet Prospero. Jeremy Sams' The Enchanted Island, a Shakespearean pastiche", Naples, September 2015.
Roundtable on "The role and strategies of teaching Shakespeare in today's world of several (alleged) crises", University of Szeged, October 2015.
Paper delivered at the International Conference "Shakespeare and the idea of the canon" on "Hamlet and Hamlets in 19th century Italy: the canonization of Shakespeare on page and on stage", Lisbon, October 2015.
Paper delivered at the International Conference “Twelfth Night dal testo alla scena”, on “Twelfth Night nelle messinscene dell’Ottocento: un’eredità critica e teatrale”, Ferrara, April 2015.
Paper delivered at IASEMS (Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies) Conference, “All the world’s a page”, on “Is there a text in this paratext? Paratexts in Early modern playbooks”, Catania, June 2016.
Paper delivered at the International Conference "Fair Padua, Nursery of Arts’: Shakespeare and Padova", on "The Background of the Shrew: texts and intertexts", Padova, June 2016.
Paper delivered at the International Conference “The Early Modern World Before, During and After Shakespeare”, on “Jewish Characters on the English Early Modern Stage: Before, During and After Shakespeare”, Budapest, October 2016.
Paper delivered at the International Conference Internazionale su “Shakespeare and the Reformation – Shakespeare’s Reformations”, su “Remaking and Refashioning the Dream: Appropriations of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Puppets, Cartoons, and Manga”, Szeged (HU), September, 2017.
Paper delivered at the International Conference “Play in tongues”, on“From stage to unfaithful page: Italian translations of early modern English drama”, Valencia (E), April, 2017.
Paper delivered at the International Conference “Rinascimento Straniero. Ariosto, Shakespeare, Cervantes ‘fuori patria’” on ““Shakespeare espurgato”: Otello e Amleto nel Settecento e nell’Ottocento”, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa February 2018.
Paper delivered at 2018 AIA Seminar "Representing and narrating the other", on "Theatrical and dramatic Jews: the representation of the other on the Early Modern English Stage", Macerata, May 2018.
Paper delivered at the AIA International Conference on “Post-holocaust Shylocks: rewriting and appropriations of The Merchant of Venice”, Pisa, September 2018.
Paper delivered at the International Conference "Shakespeare and Seeing" on "Depiction of Venice in Nineteenth-century performances of The Merchant of Venice", Venice, October 2018.
Paper delivered at the International Conference "Graphic Novel: un cross-over per la modernità letteraria", on "Remaking e refashioning A Midsummer Night’s Dream: cartoons, fumetti, manga e graphic novels", Florence, November 2018.
Paper delivered at the International Conference "Forme e modi dell'autorialità della cultura europea. Dalla prima età moderna alla contemporaneità", on "Shakespeare in performance: Autorialità e multiautorialità nei copioni e nelle edizioni teatrali del ‘700 e dell’800, Florence, November 2018.
Paper delivered at the International Summer School "Romanticism on the coast" on "Shakespeare's tempests, storms, and shipwrecks on the Romantic stage", Lerici, June 2019.
Paper delivered at the International Conference "“Shakespeare Tenses: Present. Perfect. Continuous" on "Authorship and multi-authorship in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century promptbooks and performance editions”, Szeged, October 2019.
Paper delivered at the International Conference "Vírus-Shakespeare / Viral Shakespeare", on "Shakespeare and the theatricalization of passions", Szeged, October 2021.
Paper delivered at “Festival del Classico”, on “’Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead’. Simulazione e dissimulazione della libertà in Giulio Cesare”, Turin, December 2021.
Paper delivered at the 30th AIA conference, on “Variations and experimentations on tragic in Shakespeare’s late plays”, Catania, September 2022.
Paper delivered at the seminar “Green Shakespeare. Ecologia e sostenibilità” on “Fate, sogni e folletti. Il bosco incantato di ‘Sogno di una notte di mezza estate’”, Verona, April 2023.
Paper delivered at the International Conference TWB (Theatre without borders) on “Italian theatrical and dramatic conventions in early modern English drama”, Verona, June 2023.
Paper delivered at the International Conference “Theatrum Mundi” on "The image of Venice on stage: scenery of The Merchant of Venice in 19th century English theater”, Szeged, July 2023.
Paper delivered at the Verona Shakespeare Summer School 2023 on “Past the size of dreaming: Antony and Cleopatra on Stage”, Verona, July 2023.
Paper delivered at the Verona Shakespeare Summer School 2024 on “Twelfth Night on stage and the page”, Verona, July 2024.
Paper delivered at the International Conference “Britain & Italy: Literary and Cultural Relations", on “Refashioning Italian theatrical and dramatic conventions: prologues, epilogues, and induction in early modern English drama”, Malta, May 2024.
Paper delivered at the International Conference “Sprach- und Literarkulturaustausch zwischen dem volkssprachlichen und lateinischen Drama in der Frühen Neuzeit” on “Italianate Plays on Early Modern English University Stages”, Tubinge, September 2024.
Paper delivered at the International Conference “Britain & Italy: Literary and Cultural Relations", on “An Italian Actor in London: Ernesto Rossi, Hamlet and the British Stage”, Malta, May 2025;
Paper delivered at the Spring School “Re-mediating the Mediterranean” on “What sea friends is this? Shakespeare and the Mediterranean”, Malta, May 2025;
Paper delivered at the International Conference “Performing Romanticism. Stage and Screen, Re-mediations in Contemporary Britain”, Parma, November 2024.
Paper delivered at the International Conference PRIN 2022 “Reviving the Liberal” su “George Frederick Nott, Mary Shelley and the Pisan Circle”, Parma, March 2026.
Paper delivered at the International Conference “Heima/Nostos-Algos”, on “In search of Shylock: identity, otherness and contemporary appropriation”, Verona, May 2026.
Comunicazione alla Spring School “Re-mediating the Mediterranean” on “Shakespeare and the early modern Mediterranean”, Malta, May 2026.
Participation in research groups
Member of the research unit “L’ultima produzione di Samuel Beckett, teatro, poesia, narrativa”, Università di Pisa, directed by Keir Elam (1992-1994).
Member of the research unit “Problemi testuali e filologici in Henry V e King John di Shakespeare”, Università di Firenze, directed by Marcella Quadri, M.U.R.S.T. 60% (1994-96).
Member of the research unit "La nuova filologia shakespeariana Filologia shakespeariana: Nuovi orientamenti testuali e implicazioni critiche", directed by Alessandro Serpieri , M.U.R.S.T. ex-40% (1994-1998).
Member of the research unit “Problematiche testuali e filologiche della commedia shakespeariana: Twelfth Night e The Taming of the Shrew”, Università di Firenze, directed by Keir Elam, M.U.R.S.T. 60% (1995-97).
Member of the research unit “L'Italia nell'immaginario e nella cultura britannica del rinascimento e del romanticismo”., directed by Keir Elam M.U.R.S.T. ex-40% (1999-2001).
Member of the research unit “Forme spettacolari nel periodo elisabettiano, University of Florence, directed by Alessandro Serpieri, Università di Firenze (2001-2003).
Member of the research unit “Il teatro romantico inglese (1770-1830): Presentazione, rappresentazione, autopresentazione”, directed by Lilla Maria Crisafulli, PRIN 2003 (2003-2005)
Member of the research unit (Università di Bologna, Firenze, Palermo, Bari, e Parma) "An Italian in London", directed by Keir Elam, PRIN 2006 (2007-2009)
Member of the research unit (Università di Bologna, Firenze, Val D’Aosta, Bari, e Parma) "Italian Risorgimento", directed by Lilla Maria Crisafulli, PRIN 2008 (2010-2013), Florence unit scientific director.
Member of "Bergen Shakespeare and drama network" (2006-)
Member of the research unit "EMOTHE: teatro europeo de los siglos XVI y XVII, patrimonio y bases de datos", University of Valencia, sponsored by Ministerio de Economia y Competividad, 2016-
Member of the research unit “Reviving ‘The Liberal’: literature and politics between Britain and Italy, 1821-23”, directed by Diego Saglia, PRIN 2022, and Florence Unit Scientific Director (2022-2026)
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