Current
Position
Professor of English
Literature,
Faculty of
Arts,
University of Bologna
Head of Department,
Department of Modern
Languages
University of Bologna
University Address: Dipartimento
di Lingue Straniere Moderne
Via Cartoleria,
5
40124 Bologna,
Italy.
Tel.
0039-051-2097189
Personal
Born Bury St Edmunds, Great
Britain, 27-7-1950
Resident In Bologna,
Italy
Address: Via Cesare Pavese,
41,
40141 Bologna, Italy. Tel
0039-347-5314164
Former
Positions
Professor of English
Drama,
University of Florence (1994-2001)
Professor of English Language
and Literature,
University of Pisa (1987-1994)
Research Fellow in English
Language and Literature,
University of Florence (1981-1987)
Lecturer in English Language
and Literature,
University of Florence (1977-1981)
Other Teaching
Experience
Teaching Assistant, Summer
School in English Literature,
University of London, 1972
Part-time lecturer in English
Literature, Westfield College,
University of London, 1972-4
Lecturer in
English,
University of Bari, 1976-7
Lecturer in Italian Theatre
and Cinema,
California State University, Florence, 1980-1
Visiting Professor of
English,
Boston University, 1992
Administrative
Experience
Head of Department of
English,
University of Pisa (1988-1991)
Director of Doctoral programme
in English Literature and Drama, Universities of Pisa and Florence,
1989-91
Director, Inter-University
Centre for Theatre in English (Universities of Florence, Pisa,
Siena)
1994-
Coordinator of Erasmus/Socrates exchanges with the Universities of
Liverpool (1994-2001), London (1994-2001), Birmingham (2003-) and
Bangor (2003-)
Head of Department of Modern
Languages,
University of Bologna (2007-)
Education
BA (First-Class Honours), in
English Language and Literature,
University of London,
1969-1972
Postgraduate (PhD) Student,
Department of English,
University College London, 1972-4
Special student (Harkness
Fellow) Department of Linguistics,
UCLA, 1974-5
Special student (Harkness
Fellow) Departments of English and Comparative
Literature,
Yale University,
1975-6
Ph.D in English,
University of London, 1977
Laurea
in modern Languages,
University of Florence, 1981
Grants And
Fellowships
Old Students' Scholarship,
Westfield College,
University of London,
1970-72
George Smith
Scholarship,
University of London (granted to
graduate with highest marks in English) 1972-3
British Government Major
Award, for postgraduate research, 1972-4
Harkness Fellowship of the
Commonwealth Fund of New York, 1974-76 (Linguistics Department,
UCLA, 1974-5; English and Comparative Literature Departments, Yale
University, 1975-6)
Funded
Research
British Library, on
Shakespearean drama and sixteenth-century language theory,
1972-4
UCLA, on contemporary
linguistic and semiotic theory, 1974-5
Clark and Huntigton Libraries, Californis, on Renaissance
Drama, 1974-5
Beinecke Library, Folger
Shakespeare Library, Library of Congress, on Renaissance theories
of language, 1975-6
Participation in group
research project on the semiotics of drama, Rizzoli Foundation,
Milan, 1977-8
Participation in Ministry of
Education group research project "In Shakespeare's laboratory: A
semiotic analysis of the dramatization of narrative sources in
the English and Roman History Plays", University of Florence,
1977-1987
Participation in Ministry of
Education group research project on dramatic conventions,
University of Bologna, 1978-1985
Coordination of Ministry of
Education group research project on the rhetoric of contemporary
drama, University of Pisa, 1988-90
Participation in Ministry of
Education group research project on Shakespearian textual
criticism, University of Florence, 1991-4
Participation in University of
Florence Strategic Research Project on
‘Marginal theatre in Early Modern England', 2001-6
Participation in
Departmental research project on ‘Women's drama and the
experimenting of theatrical genres in Romantic Europe, Bologna,
2001-3
Participation in
Ministry of Education group research project on 'English Romantic
Theatre(1760/1830): texts, theories and stage”, 2002-4
Participation in
Departmental research project on
‘Cultural identity and literary and dramatic genres from the
16th century to the 18th Century', Bologna
2003-5
Coordination of
Ministry of Education Research Project of National Interest on “An
Italian in London. The Italian presence on the British Stage from
the Renaissance to Romanticism: typologies, migration, evolution”,
2006-
Editorships and
editorial boards
Co-editor of Textus: English Studies in Italy, Genoa,
1994-2001
Member of international editorial board of theatre
journal Asaph, Tel Aviv, 1988-
Member of international editorial advisory council
(Drama/Theatre) of Anales de la literatura espanola
contemporanea, University of Colorado at Boulder,
1990-
Consulting editor for AIRS (Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies),
Ashgate, 2004-
General editor of BUR Shakespeare, Rizzoli, Milan
(2005-)
General editor of the series
Protagonisti della Cultura Europea, Liguori, Naples
(2006-)
Associations
Member of AIA (Associazione
Italiana di Anglistica), 1977; Member of AIA Research commission,
1979-1980)
Member of AISS (Associazione
Italiana di Studi Semiotici), 1977-; national secretary and
treasurer of the Association, 1981-3)
Member of IASS (International
Association of Semiotic Studies), 1979-
Member of Samuel Beckett
Association, 1987-
Member of Italian Association
of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory (1993- )
Organization Of
Conferences
Organization and coordination
of national conferences of Association of Semiotic Studies,
1982-3
Organization of International
Symposium on the Semiotics of Theatre, Florence, February
1982
Organization of international
conference "Shakespeare Today: Directions and Methods of Study",
University of Florence, September 1983
Organization (with Alessandro
Serpieri) of international conference on "Shakespeare: La
nostalgia dell'essere", Taormina, August, 1984
Organization (with Alessandro
Serpieri) of international conference "Nel laboratorio del
drammaturgo", Taormina, August 1985;
Organization (with Alessandro
Serpieri) of international conference "Mettere in scena
Shakespeare", Taormina, August 1986
Organization (with Alessandro
Serpieri) of international conference "L'Eros in Shakespeare",
Taormina, August 1987
Organization (with Alessandro
Serpieri) of international conference on Richard III, Taormina,
August 1989
Organization (with Alessandro
Serpieri) of international conference on Beckett, Taormina, August
1990
Chair of seminar on language,
International Shakespeare Conference, Stratford-upon-Avon, August
1990
Organization (with others) of
conference on "The languages of the passions", University of Pisa,
October 1992
Organization (with Carla
Dente) of international conference on "Drama and Power" on the
occasion of the 650th anniversary of the University of Pisa, Pisa,
November 1994
Co-ordination (with William
Carroll) of the seminar “Twentieth-Century Theories of Language and
the Interpretation of Shakespeare”, Sixth World Shakespeare
Congress, Los Angeles, April 1996.
Organization of International
Conference “In the Company of Samuel Beckett”, Florence, May
1996.
Organization (with others) of
International Conference “Shakespeare's Text(s): A Hundred Visions
and Revisions”, Florence, May 1997
Organization of
seminar on translating for the theatre, University of
Pisa/Provincial Administration of Pisa, November 1998
Organization of cultural event ‘'We Like Shakespeare', with
Royal Shakespeare Company and Globe Theatre London, Bologna, April
2004
