Phd in STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURES, LANGUAGE AND
TRANSLATION

email: emilia.dirocco@uniroma1.it
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Emilia Di Rocco (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Sapienza University of Rome) graduated from Sapienza University of Rome in 1992. She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature, which was awarded in 2001 by the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. In 2021 she was awarded the Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Northwestern University. She has taught Comparative Literature at the University of Rome Sapienza since 2009. She teaches Literature and Myth, Rewritings of Ancient Myth in Modern and Comparative Literature, Literature and the Bible with a special focus on Medieval Literature (undergraduate, MA, PhD students). She is Vice President of the European Society of Comparative Literature/Société Européenne De Littérature Comparée. Chief Editor of Status Questionis. Language Text Culture. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Nuova Informazione Bibliografica, of the Fondazione Lorenzo Valla. Classici greci e latini, and of the editorial board of Edizioni Studium.   Her research interests and areas of specialization follow three main lines of development: History of Ideas (Astonishment, Roma 2019), thematic criticism (Raccontare il ritorno, Bologna 2017), Rewriting of ancient myth (Io Tiresia, Roma 2007). She has also published extensively on medieval literature (mostly on Robert Holkot and Chaucer).