User:Domenico Lovascio

Domenico Lovascio is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in English Literature and Culture at the University of Genoa, where he also taught English as a Foreign Language. He was awarded a PhD in Comparative Literature by the same institution in 2013 for a thesis specialising in early modern English drama. He received the AIA/Carocci Dissertation Prize 2014 awarded by the Italian Association of English Studies to the best PhD thesis in the field in Italy in 2012–13. He has developed his PhD study on the reception of the figure of Julius Caesar in early modern English drama into a monograph titled Un nome, mille volti: Giulio Cesare nel teatro inglese della prima età moderna (Rome: Carocci, 2015). He has also published the first English-Italian edition of Ben Jonson’s Catiline His Conspiracy (Genoa: ECIG, 2011), as well as articles in English Literary Renaissance, The Ben Jonson Journal, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Early Modern Literary Studies and Notes and Queries. He is currently editing Thomas Kyd's The Housholders Philosophie for the projected edition of The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd, gen. ed. Brian Vickers, and co-editing with Lisa Hopkins a special issue of Textus: English Studies in Italy on "The Uses of Rome in English Renaissance Drama". He is a contributor to the forthcoming Arden Early Modern Drama Guide to Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and the forthcoming MUP volume New Directions in Renaissance Tragedy.