Lisanna Calvi

Lisanna Calvi is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Verona. Her main research interests have focussed on Restoration and early modern drama as well as on Jacobite literature and culture. She has also worked on madness and autobiography in the seventeenth century, Shakespeare and the commedia dell'arte, the Bible in Victorian literature. She is currently working on two distinct research projects on Shakespeare in eighteenth-century theatre and on the reception of Shakespearean dramaturgy on the nineteenth-century Italian stage, with a focus on Romeo and Juliet.
She is a member of various associations (AIA, ESRA, ESSE), and since May 2024 she is part of IASEMS (Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies) Executive Board.