David George Lyons

Originally from near Manchester in the UK, where he completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Leeds with a joint European degree in Classical Literature and English in 2015.

From 2013-14 he studied at the University of Verona, where he passed his elective year abroad as part of the Erasmus programme.

In 2018 he moved to Italy to begin a Master’s degree in Italian Studies at the University of Bologna, from where he graduated in 2021.

In November 2022, he started his studies as a PhD candidate, again at the University of Bologna, after being admitted to the programme of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures: Diversity and Inclusion (Curriculum EDGES: women’s and gender studies).

His interests include travel literature, particularly of the Grand Tour, feminist literature and critical theory, art history and criticism, Romanticism, Neoclassicism, and orientalism.