Rocco Coronato is Full Professor of English Literature at the University of Padua, Italy and the Head of the University of Padua Ph.D. in Linguistic, Philological and Literary Sciences in joint partnership with the University of Oxford as per the 2017 collaboration agreement between the two Universities.
His research interests include the application of complexity theory to literary interpretation.

He has been a visiting academic at Harvard, Amsterdam, the Warburg Institute, Brown University, the University of Chicago. He has presented papers at Harvard, Sorbonne, The Warburg Institute, Cambridge, The Hebrew University.
He has written 80+ articles, which have appeared for instance on Connotations, The Ben Jonson Journal, New Comparison and The Shakespeare Yearbook. His monographs include: Shakespeare, Caravaggio, and the Indistinct Regard (Routledge, 2017); Jonson Versus Bakhtin: Carnival and the Grotesque (Rodopi-Brill, 2003); Shakespeare’s Neighbors: Theory Matters in the Bard and His Contemporaries (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001). He is currently researching a book on Shakespeare and complexity theory.

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