Alice Equestri

alice.equestri@unipd.it

Luogo

Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari - DISLL
VIA E. VENDRAMINI, 13 - PADOVA

Ricevimento

Room 66, second floor, Polo Beato Pellegrino and ZoomPlease send me an email to make an appointment

Profilo

Dr Alice Equestri is a Lecturer in English Literature, with a specialisation in the early modern period. She was a postdoc and adjunct lecturer at Padua in 2021-2022, and between 2017 and 2019 she held a position as EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sussex (UK). She also previously worked as a research fellow at the University of Venice Ca' Foscari. She has published two monographs: "Literature and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern England: Folly, Law, and Medicine 1500-1640" (Routledge, 2021), and "The Fools of Shakespeare's Romances" (Carocci, 2016), which was awarded the AIA PhD Dissertation Prize 2015. Her essays have appeared or are due to appear in venues including "Studies in Philology", the "Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature", "Renaissance Studies", "Notes and Queries", "Disability Studies Quarterly" and "Cahiers Élisabéthains". She has written several book chapters and participated as speaker in international conferences in UK, US, Italy, France, Spain and Poland and was awarded a research internship at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2014. Her research interests include folly and intellectual disability in Early Modern English Literature, Robert Armin’s works, Shakespeare, and English translations or adaptations of Italian novellas.

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