Lisanna Calvi

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Lisanna, February 5, 2021
Position
Associate Professor
Role
Associate Professor
Academic sector
ANGL-01/A - English Literature
Research sector (ERC-2024)
SH8_3 - Cultural studies and theory, cultural identities and memories, cultural heritage

Research sector (ERC)
SH5_10 - Cultural heritage, cultural identities and memories

Office
Palazzo di Lingue,  Floor 1,  Room 1.12
Telephone
0458028673
E-mail
lisanna|calvi*univr|it <== Replace | with . and * with @ to have the right email address.

Office Hours

I will be in my office on these dates: April 30, from 9 to 11 am, May 6, 12, 20, 27, from 9,30 to 11.30 am.

Curriculum

Lisanna Calvi has focused her research interests on Restoration and early modern theatre and drama as well as on Jacobite culture and literature. She has also written on autobiography and madness in seventeenth-century England, Shakespeare and the commedia dell'arte, and the presence of the Bible in Victorian literature. In the field of adaptation studies, she has been working on the reception of Shakespeare on the nineteenth-century Italian stage, with particular attention to Romeo and Juliet; her research is currently dedicated to Shakespearean adaptations in eighteenth-century British theatre.
A member of various associations (AIA, ESRA, ESSE), in May 2024, she has been elected to the Executive Board of IASEMS (Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies).

Modules

Modules running in the period selected: 44.
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Course Name Total credits Online Teacher credits Modules offered by this teacher
Bachelor's degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures English literature 3 (2025/2026)   9  eLearning 9 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English literature and culture 1 [CInt A-E] (2025/2026)   6  eLearning 6 
Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies English Literature (i) (2025/2026)   6  eLearning 6 
Foreign Literatures and Languages Spring Seminars Series (2025/2026)   19.5    19.5 
Master's degree in Languages, Literatures and Digital Culture Teaching lab - English literature and culture (2025/2026)   2  eLearning 1 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English literature and culture 1 [CInt A-E] (2024/2025)   6  eLearning 6 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English literature and culture 2 [CInt] (2024/2025)   9  eLearning 8 
Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies English Literature (i) (2024/2025)   6  eLearning 6 
Foreign Literatures and Languages Italian Dickens: David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers (2024/2025)   0.5    0.5 
Foreign Literatures and Languages Jane Eyre's Afterlives (2024/2025)   0.5    0.5 
Foreign Literatures and Languages PhD Course (2024/2025)   11    3.5 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English literature and culture 1 [CInt A-E] (2023/2024)   6  eLearning 6 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English literature and culture 2 [CInt] (2023/2024)   9  eLearning 8 
Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies English Literature (i) (2023/2024)   6  eLearning 6 
Foreign Literatures and Languages Winter School Literatures 2024 (2023/2024)   9    0.5 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English literature and culture 1 [CInt A-E] (2022/2023)   6  eLearning 6 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English literature and culture 1 [CInt F-O] (2022/2023)   6  eLearning 6 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English literature and culture 1 [Tur] (2022/2023)   6  eLearning 2 
Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies English Literature (i) (2022/2023)   6  eLearning 6 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English literature and culture 1 [Cognomi A-E] (2021/2022)   6  eLearning 6 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English literature and culture 2 [CInt] (2021/2022)   9  eLearning 8 
Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies English Literature (i) (2021/2022)   6  eLearning 6 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English literature and culture 2 [CInt] (2020/2021)   9  eLearning 9 
Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies English Literature (i) (2020/2021)   6  eLearning 6 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English literature and culture 2 [CInt] (2019/2020)   9  eLearning 9 
Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies English Literature (i) (2019/2020)   6  eLearning 6 
Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies English Literature (i) (2018/2019)   6  eLearning 6 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English literature and culture 1 [Cognomi P-Z] (2017/2018)   6  eLearning 6 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English literature and culture 2 [CInt] (2017/2018)   9  eLearning 9 
Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies English Literature (i) (2017/2018)   6  eLearning 6 
Master's degree in Linguistics English linguistics LM with an introduction to Corpus Linguistics (2016/2017)   9  eLearning 6  PART I
3  PART II
Master's degree in Linguistics English linguistics LM with an introduction to Corpus Linguistics (2015/2016)   9    3  PART II
Master's degree in Linguistics English linguistics LM (2014/2015)   9    3  PARTE II
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Publishing English Literature I (2013/2014)   9    6  (Modulo 1)
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English Literature I [Cognomi A-E] (2012/2013)   6    6 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English Literature II [CInt M-Z] (2011/2012)   9    6  (Modulo 1)
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English Literature II [CInt M-Z] (2010/2011)   9    9 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce English Literature I [CInt A-L] (2009/2010)   6    6 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Culture for Tourism and International Commerce (until 2007-2008) (not running) English Literature II [Tur] (2008/2009)   6    6 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Culture for Tourism and International Commerce (until 2007-2008) (not running) English Literature I [F - O Commercio Internazionale] (2007/2008)   3    3 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Culture for Tourism and International Commerce (until 2007-2008) (not running) English Literature I [F - O Turismo] (2007/2008)   3    3 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Culture for Tourism and International Commerce (until 2007-2008) (not running) English Literature I [F - O Commercio Internazionale] (2006/2007)   3    3 
Bachelor's degree in Languages and Culture for Tourism and International Commerce (until 2007-2008) (not running) English Literature I [F - O Turismo] (2006/2007)   3    3 

Di seguito sono elencati gli eventi e gli insegnamenti di Terza Missione collegati al docente:

  • Eventi di Terza Missione: eventi di Public Engagement e Formazione Continua.
  • Insegnamenti di Terza Missione: insegnamenti che fanno parte di Corsi di Studio come Corsi di formazione continua, Corsi di perfezionamento e aggiornamento professionale, Corsi di perfezionamento, Master e Scuole di specializzazione.
Research interests
Topic Description Research area
Early Modern Autobiography and Madness The relationship between autobiography and madness in early modern Protestant culture, with regard to the notions of religious melancholy and 'affliction of conscience' in seventeenth-century English autobiographical writings, conversion narratives and diaries, also in the light of the dawning tradition of spiritual autobiography. English and Anglophone Literatures
Religious works
Restoration Tragic Theatre Restoration tragedy and early eighteenth-century tragedy (John Dryden, Thomas Otway, Nathaniel Lee, Nicholas Rowe), with special regard to the representation of kingship. Shakespearean adaptations. English and Anglophone Literatures
Theatre
Jacobite culture Jacobite culture and literature in Britain; the political and devotional writings of James II Stuart. English and Anglophone Literatures
Cultural Studies and Mentalities
Shakespeare in 19th-century Italy Shakespeare on the Italian nineteenth-century stage, with special regards to Ernesto Rossi's roles and performances. English and Anglophone Literatures
Shakespeare
Projects
Title Starting date
Classical and Early Modern Intersections: Sophocles and Shakespeare 10/1/17
“Copied from the age”. The Use of Rape on the Eighteenth-Century Stage 10/1/16
Kingship, Tyranny, and Power 6/1/16
‘All things changed to the contrary’. Comic-Tragic Contiguities in the Verona Plays. 1/1/15
U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, "What is an Attic tragedy?" 1/1/15
Shakespeare on the nineteenth-century Italian stage 1/1/15
The early modern book: textual and digital philology 1/1/15
‘Over the water’: giacobitismo e giacobiti alla corte di St-Germain-en-Laye 5/1/13
Crisis and reconciliation in Romeo and Juliet 1/1/13
Shakespeare a Muse for Europe?: Renaissance / Reformation, Revolution / Romanticism and War 1/1/13
Il Piacere del Male. Le rappresentazioni letterarie di un’antinomia morale 10/1/12
Follia e autobiografia nell’Inghilterra del Seicento 6/1/12
Malattia e cura nel Cinque-Seicento inglese: intersezioni discorsive e testuali. 12/1/10
“Is there a ‘literary’ text in this class?”. Letteratura, cultura ed ermeneutica nell’anglistica contemporanea. 1/27/10
The construction of modernity and Restoration drama: tradition and experiment 1/1/09



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