Manuela D'AMORE
Manuela D’Amore is Full Professor of English Literature. Her research interests include gender writing, travel, and migration. She is the author of numerous essays and has edited the Italian editions of Anti-Pamela by Eliza Haywood (1741), The P.R.B. Journal (1848–1852) by William Michael Rossetti, and Beauty and the Beast by Anne Thackeray Ritchie (1868). Her most recent monographs are Essays in Defence of the Female Sex: Custom, Education and Authority in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012), co-authored with Michèle Lardy (Paris Sorbonne I), and The Royal Society and the Discovery of the Two Sicilies: Southern Routes in the Grand Tour (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), for which she received the national ANDA (National Association for English Studies) award in 2018.
Since 2015, she has been researching and teaching courses on literary writings of the Italian migration in the United Kingdom. Her Literary Voices of the Italian Diaspora in Britain: Time, Transnational Identities and Hybridity was also published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2023.
Since 2025, she has been part of the international research project “Les femmes écrivaines britanniques et européennes dans l’espace public”, led by Université de Lorraine and involving Eger University, Università del Piemonte Orientale, and Tor Vergata.
She also collaborates on the project “Mapping Creativity in Captivity during WWII: A Global Journey into the Creativity of Italian WWII Detainees”, created by University of Sydney together with scholars from University of Melbourne, New York University, Swinburne University, Berkeley City College, and University of Oslo.
Mapping Creativity in Captivity during WWII
She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the journal Textus. English Studies in Italy (Class A journal).
She is co-editor of the journal Corpi plurali.
She served on the executive board of ANDA from 2018 to 2023 and on the executive board of IASEMS (Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies) from 2021 to 2024. A member of the executive board of AIA (Italian Association for English Studies) in 2023–2025, she was reconfirmed for the 2025–2027 term.
She has held several institutional roles since 2009. She is currently serving her second term as President of the Master’s Degree Program in Comparative Languages and Literatures (2025–2029).
Last edit: 03/05/2022
Since 2002, research activities have focused on three main areas: women’s writing, travel writing, and Migration Studies. Frequently explored from an Anglo-Italian perspective, this research has adopted a diachronic approach spanning the seventeenth century to the Victorian era. Since 2020, with a shift in focus towards Italian migrant literature in Great Britain, the scope of the research has expanded to include contemporary contexts.
A more recent area of study concerns the artistic and literary production of Italian internees on the Isle of Man during the Second World War. In this field, she has also collaborated on the project Mapping Creativity in Captivity during WWII: A Global Journey into the Creativity of Italian WWII Detainees, developed by the University of Sydney in collaboration with scholars from Melbourne University, New York University, Swinburne University, Berkeley City College, and the University of Oslo (https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/our-research/research-areas/languages-and-cultures/multilingual-australia/mapping-creativity-in-captivity-during-wwii.html).