Field: Comparative Literature, Semiotics, Psychoanalysis and Philosophy
Professor of English Literature at the University of Bergamo (Italy)
Head of the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Literature at the University of Bergamo (Italy)
Co-Coordinator in the PhD Program in "Theory and Text Analysis" at the University of Bergamo (Italy)
Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (U.S.A.)
Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship 1994 and Reader (2003)
Speaker in Religious Studies Departmental Colloquium, 1987, 1990, 1995 1997, 1998Topics include: semiotics in the study of religion and literature; theories of intertextuality; narratives of the "double".
-1972 Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere, (110 e lode=Summa cum laude) I.U.L.M. Milano, Italy; Thesis Topic: "A Semiotic Introduction to Shakespearean Drama"
-1983 Laurea in Filosofia, (110 e lode=Summa cum laude) Universita' degli Studi di Genova, Italy; Thesis Topic: "The Interactional Perspective in the Palo Alto School"
Shakespeare, Renaissance Rhetoric, Literary Theory (Semiotics and Psychoanalysis)
A.I.A. (Association of Italian Professors of English); Member of the Association Board of Directors (1997-present).
E.S.S.E. (European Society for the Study of English ).
A.I.S.S. (Italian Association of Semiotic Studies).
A.I.E.S. (Association Internationale Etudes Semiotiques).
I.S.A. (The International Shakespeare Association).
The Shakespeare Association of America.
The Japanese Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of English Language and Literature.
S.I.S.L. (Italian Society for the study of Science and Literature).
1990-Present Merope, Journal of Comparative Literature, University of Pescara, Italy
1998-Present Head of the Editorial Board of Textus, Journal of the Italian Association of Professors of English
-Author of five books:-two on Shakespeare (Introduzione semiologica al teatro shakespeariano, Coopli I.U.L.M, Milano, 1976; L'Eloquenza e gli Incantesimi: Interpretazioni shakespeariane, Guerini e Associati, Milano, 1989)
-two on Twentieth Century Literature (Una coscienza non tutta per se: Studio sul romanzo dello "Stream of Consciousness", Patron, Bologna, 1983; Coping with the inexplicable: Language and Situations in Pinter's Early Plays, Coopli I.U.L.M., Milano, 1983
-a bilingual critical edition with introduction and notes of The Merry Discourse of Meum and Tuum-L'ameno Racconto di Meum e Tuum (1639), Henry Peacham, Jaca Book, Milan, 1998- Author of more than 50 articles and contributions to books (in Italy, U.S.A., Japan and Great Britain).
- Her work has been reviewed in Italian, French and American journals.
Last modified: July 2001