Dr Selene Scarsi
Contact
- Email: s.scarsi@kingston.ac.uk
- Location: Penrhyn Road
- Faculty: Kingston School of Art
- School: School of Creative and Cultural Industries
- Department: Department of Humanities
About
My main area of interest is Anglo-Italian relations in the Renaissance. I read English at the University of Hull, where I was awarded the English Prize, and obtained my doctorate at the same University with a thesis on the extant Elizabethan translations of three Italian Renaissance epic poems, supervised by Dr Jason Lawrence.
My first monograph, entitled 'Translating Women in Early Modern England: Gender in the Elizabethan Versions of Boiardo, Ariosto and Tasso', was published by Ashgate in 2010 as part of their 'Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies' series. I am now working on a comparative study of English and Italian female sonneteers in the Renaissance.
I am currently supervising two PhDs: one on the reception of Ludovico Ariosto's 'Orlando Furioso', and one on food in Medieval and Renaissance literature. I welcome PhD applications from students wishing to work on the literary and cultural relationship between Italy and England in the Early Modern period, as well as on Renaissance women's writing.
Academic responsibilities
Senior Lecturer in English
Qualifications
- PhD English Renaissance Literature, University of Hull
- BA (Hons) English Literature, University of Hull