Literature (General): Comparative literature

People with expertise in this area
Research interests

Silvia Bigliazzi: Full Professor
Annalisa Pes: Associate Professor

Emanuel Stelzer: Associate Professor

Research interests
Topic	People	Description
Classical and Early Modern Theatre: intersections	Silvia Bigliazzi	The reinterpretation of Greek and Latin models in European Renaissance theatre, with a focus on English drama.
Languages of literature: between New Formalism and Philosophy and Performance	Silvia Bigliazzi	New critical tendencies after post-structuralism and cultural studies: from New Formalism to Philosophy and Performance.
Intersections between naratology and semiotics of theatre	Silvia Bigliazzi	The relation between narratives and dramatic dialogues, written report and performed action: narratological and semiotic approaches.
Diegetic and mimetic intertextuality in Renaissance Europe	Silvia Bigliazzi	The narrative transmission and circulation of theatergrams from Europe to England in the Renaissance.
Australian Literature	Annalisa Pes	Research in the field of Australian literature include: studies on the short story, studies on women's writing, studies on Patrick White.
Early modern paradoxes	Emanuel Stelzer	Early modern texts belonging to paradoxical genres
Renaissance sonnet-writing and metaphysical poetry	Silvia Bigliazzi	English poetry between the end of the fifteenth century and the early seventeenth century, with special regard to the sonnet within its European context, and to John Donne's experimental poetry.
Translation for the theatre	Silvia Bigliazzi	Translation studies applied to theatre.
Voco-visuality and interart studies	Silvia Bigliazzi	The relation between the arts in the Renaissance and in Anglo-American modernism.