My main research interests lie in early modern metatheatre and the transnational influences on early modern English drama, particularly in the Jacobean and Caroline periods.
My PhD (cum laude, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 2025) centred around metatheatre and the Baroque in Jacobean and Caroline drama. My dissertation, “Un pien teatro di meraviglie”: Metatheatre and the Baroque in Jacobean and Caroline Drama, examined metatheatre from a theoretical perspective, accounting for the peculiar features of early modern theatre and of the Baroque as a style of thought circulating in Europe (and beyond) in the seventeenth century, but it also explored how the changes in theatrical fashion, audiences’ taste, and performance conditions influenced metatheatre between the beginning of the seventeenth century and 1642, briefly considering also court spectacle.
My current project, Theatre without Borders: Drama in Transnational Caroline Culture, supported by a British Academy International Fellowship award, examines the impact of continental culture on Caroline theatre, focusing on the court and on drama produced at the English Jesuit Colleges on the Continent.
I also have a parallel interest in children’s literature. I am currently co-editing, together with Prof. Laura Tosi (Ca’ Foscari University), a Special Issue of Literature on Shakespeare, Adaptation and Storytelling in Children’s Literature.
I am currently working on a Cambridge Element, Reframing Metatheatre: Shakespeare and Beyond (Shakespeare Performance series).
I was Adjunct Professor of Theatre in English at Ca' Foscari University for the winter semester 2025/2026.
