Elisabetta Marino

Elisabetta Marino is Full Professor English Literature at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and head of “Asia and the West” research centre. She is the author of four monographs: a volume on the figure of Tamerlane in British and American literature (2000); an introduction to British Bangladeshi literature (2005); a study on the relationship between Mary Shelley and Italy (2011); an analysis of the Romantic dramas on a mythological subject (2016). In 2006 she published the first Italian translation of poems by Maria Mazziotti Gillan. Between 2001 and 2023 she has edited/co-edited fifteen collections of essays and a Special Forum of Journal of Transnational American Studies (2012). In 2022, she translated Parkwater, a Victorian novel by Ellen Wood, for the first time into Italian. She has published extensively on the English Romantic writers (especially Mary Shelley and P.B. Shelley), Indian diasporic literature, travel literature, and Italian American literature.

She co-edited a special issue ofDe-Genere. Journal of Postcolonial, Literary and Gender Studies (2022), and acted as guest editor for a special issue of Journal of American Studies of Turkey focused on Italian American material culture (2023).