About the convenors:

 

Dr Victoria Bladen teaches in literary studies and adaptation at The University of Queensland, Australia, and has twice received a Faculty award for teaching excellence. Her publications include five Shakespearean text guides in the Insight (Melbourne) series, most recently Much Ado About Nothing (2019), and five co-edited volumes, most recently: Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear (Cambridge UP 2019) and Shakespeare and the Supernatural (Manchester UP 2020). She has convened study abroad programmes in Florence, Rome, Stratford-upon-Avon, Oxford, Ravello, Montpellier and Verona.

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Co-convenors of the 2020 Messina programme: 

 

Prof Maria Serena Marchesi teaches English Literature at the University of Messina. She has written books and essays about Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Wilkie Collins, Bram Stoker, John Ruskin, the theatre of T.S. Eliot, Dion Boucicault and Robert Louis Stevenson. She has also written about Victorian theatre in performance, in particular John Baldwin Buckstone and Henry Irving. Her latest works are 5 November 1866: The Story of Henry Irving and Dion Boucicault's Hunted Down, or; The Two Lives of Mary Leigh (Skenè, 2016) and The Uncompromising Victorian: The Law and the Family in the Plays of Dion Boucicault (ETS, 2018).

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Prof Sidia Fiorato is Researcher of English Literature at the Department of Foreign Literatures of the University of Verona (Italy). 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. Sidia Fiorato is a member of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), of AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica) and of AIDEL (Associazione Italiana Diritto e Letteratura).

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Co-convenors of the 2019 Verona programme:

Prof Sidia Fiorato and

Assoc Prof Chiara Battisti is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Department of Foreign Literatures of the University of Verona (Italy). Her research interests include literature and the visual arts, with a particular focus on literature and cinema, literature and science, law and literature, Shakespeare studies, gender studies, fashion studies, disability studies and food studies. Chiara Battisti is a member of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), of AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica) and of AIDEL (Associazione Italiana Diritto e Letteratura).

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Co-convenor of the 2018 (Montpellier) programme: Prof Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin is Professor in Shakespeare studies at the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Vice President of the Société Française Shakespeare and director of the “Institut de Recherche sur la Renaissance, l’âge Classique et les Lumières” (IRCL, UMR 5186 CNRS). She is co-editor-in-chief of the international journal Cahiers Élisabéthains and co-director (with Patricia Dorval) of the Shakespeare on Screen in Francophonia Database (shakscreen.org). She has published The Unruly Tongue in Early Modern England, Three Treatises (2012) and is the author of Shakespeare’s Insults: A Pragmatic Dictionary (2016). She is co-editor, with Sarah Hatchuel, of the Shakespeare on Screen series (Cambridge University Press). She is currently writing a book entitled The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare’s World (Bloomsbury, 2019-2020).

 

Co-convenor of the 2017 (Ravello), 2016 (Oxford), 2015 (Stratford-upon-Avon) and 2014 (Rome) programmes: Prof Maddalena Pennacchia is Professor of English Literature at Roma Tre University (Italy). She is the editor of Literary Intermediality: The Transit of Literature through the Media Circuit (Peter Lang 2007) and co-editor of Questioning Bodies in Shakespeare’s Rome (V&R Unipress 2010). Her publications include Shakespeare intermediale. I drammi romani (Editoria e Spettacolo 2012) and a number of essays such as “Antony’s Ring: Remediating Ancient Rhetoric on the Elizabethan Stage” (in Identity, Otherness and Empire in Shakespeare’s Rome, ed. by Maria Del Sapio Garbero, Ashgate 2009), “Shakespeare for Beginners: The Animated Tales from Shakespeare and the Case Study of Julius Caesar” (in Adapting Canonical Texts in Children’s Literature, ed. Anja Müller, Bloomsbury Academic, 2013).“Culturally British Bio(e)pics: From Elizabeth to the King’s Speech” (in Adaptation, Intermediality and the British Celebrity Biopic, eds M. Minier and M. Pennacchia, Ashgate, 2014). Her research interests include intermediality and literature, adaptation theory, Shakespeare and Jane Austen on screen, the biopic and cultural tourism.