Manuela D'AMORE
Manuela D’Amore is Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of Catania. She has translated and edited Eliza Haywood’s Anti-Pamela (1741), W.M. Rossetti’s The P.R.B. Journal (1848-1853) and more recently Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s Beauty and the Beast (1867). The author of essays on poets, novelists and pamphleteers of the Early modern period, of the eighteenth century and the Victorian Age, she has researched in the fields of gender studies and of travel writing. Her Essays in Defence of the Female Sex: Custom, Education and Authority in Seventeenth-Century England, co-authored with Michèle Lardy (Sorbonne I), was published by Cambridge Scholars Press in 2012; her latest monograph The Royal Society and the Discovery of the Two Sicilies: Southern Routes in the Grand Tour (New York and London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) was awarded the ANDA (Italian Association of English Literature) Book Prize in 2018.
She is a member of the ANDA and IASEMS (Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies) Steering Committees. She was one of the Department's Delegates for Internationalisation and is now Head of the Master's Course in Comparative Languages and Literatures.
Last edit: 03/05/2022