IOLANDA PLESCIA

Iolanda Plescia is an Associate Professor of English in the department of European, American and Intercultural Studies of Sapienza University of Rome and the current director of the international MA programme in English and Anglo-American Studies. She earned her PhD in 2006 at Sapienza, where she taught English language and translation before going on to complete a two-year research fellowship at RomaTre University (2008-2010).
Among her research interests are stylistics, the history of the English language, the history of Italian-English translation, literary translation, with special regard to the early modern age and the twentieth century. While her PhD focused on the language of war and the political dimension of Virginia Woolf's use of language in her novels and essay-writing, her main interests in the past decade have centred on Shakespeare's language and style, and more recently on intersections between literary and scientific texts and scientific translation in early modern England.
She has translated Henry VIII's Letters to Anne Boleyn into Italian (first Italian edition, Nutrimenti, 2013), and published a new translation of Shakespeare's 'Troilus and Cressida' (Feltrinelli, 2015). She is editor of the special issue of Memoria di Shakespeare 'The Shape of a Language' (2016) and co-editor of 'Elizabeth I in Writing: Language, Power and Representation in Early Modern England', Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Her edition of Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew' was published by Feltrinelli in 2019, and her new translation of 'Flush' by Virginia Woolf was published in the Feltrinelli Classics series in 2021. Her new translation of 'Sir Thomas More', with Nadia Fusini, appeared in 2022 (Feltrinelli).
She was Visiting Professor in the Fall of 2022 at UCD - University College Dublin, School of English.
She is currently President of the Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies:
http://www.iasems.org/
She serves on the editorial board of Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies (https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/memoria_di_shakespeare) and Status Quaestionis (https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/status_quaestionis).
She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Cambridge University Press Elements in Shakespeare and Text series (https://www.cambridge.org/core/publications/elements/shakespeare-and-tex...
Eds: C. M. Bourne and R. Loughnane)