Dr Francesca Saggini
Professor of English, Università della Tuscia, Viterbo
Marie Curie Fellow, University of Edinburgh.
Dipartimento DISTU
Via San Carlo 32
Università della Tuscia, Viterbo ITALY 01100
Ph: 00390761357842
fsaggini[at]unitus.it
The School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures
50 George Square
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh EH8 9JU
fsaggini[at]ed.ac.uk
Memberships (professional bodies)
North American Burney Society; Frances Burney Society UK (since 2014 Committee member); British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; Società Italiana di Studi del Secolo Diciottesimo, The Aphra Behn Society for Women in the Arts, International Gothic Association, British Association for Romantic Studies, Italian Oscar Wilde Society, Associazione Italiana di Anglistica, European Society for the Study of English, International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures, Women Studies’ Group.
Career summary
Full professor (tenured). Winner of the Walken Cowen Memorial Prize awarded by the University of Virginia; winner of the Best Work of Scholarly Criticism awarded by the Accademia dei Lincei (Italy); Honourable Mention at the ESSE Book Awards (standalone research monograph); British Academy – Accademia dei Lincei Fellow (twice); Fellow of the Burney Centre at McGill University; MSCA Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
Francesca holds a Ph.D. in Theatre Studies and a Ph.D. in English Literature. She is the author of over a hundred publications, including five monographs and many edited collections.
Areas of interest / research
Frances Burney; the Gothic; transmediality and intermediality.
Details of books/publications relating to your work on British portraiture
“Identità a soggetto. Figurazioni dell’attore nella cultura inglese del Settecento” [Improvising identity. Figurations of the actor in eighteenth-century English culture]. In Diego Saglia and Giovanna Silvani (eds), Narrare/Rappresentare. Incroci di segni tra immagine e parola. Bologna: Clueb, 2003. Pp. 33-49. ISBN: 9788849121285.
“The Bodybound Muse: In The Cut with the Castrato”. In Andrew Mangham (eds), The Male Body in Medicine and Literature. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2014. Essay in progress.
British Academy-Accademia dei Lincei Fellow. Project: portraiture and the construction of the author in the modern period.
In 2022 I submitted an ERC – Advanced Grant on the transmediality and authorial portraiture in the Modern period.