Phd in STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURES, LANGUAGE AND
TRANSLATION

email: iolanda.plescia@uniroma1.it
phone: 0688378084
building: Edificio Marco Polo, Circonvallazione Tiburtina 4, 00185 Roma
room: 340

Iolanda Plescia is an Associate Professor of English in the department of European, American and Intercultural Studies of ‘Sapienza‘ University of Rome. 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 Roma Tre University (Rome, 2008-2010). Among her research interests are stylistics, the history of the English language, the history of Italian-English translation, with special regard to the early modern age and the twentieth century. She has worked on the political dimension of Virginia Woolf‘s use of language in her essay-writing (2010), on diachronic perspectives and linguistic modality in Shakespeare‘s style (in Memoria di Shakespeare, 2009, 2012, and other collections of essays), and more recently on intersections between literary and scientific texts and scientific translation in early modern England, as well as literary translation. 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 a new version of 'Flush' by Virginia Woolf was published in the Feltrinelli Classics series in 2021. Her translation, with Nadia Fusini, of the collaborative early modern play Sir Thomas More will be out later in 2022 (Feltrinelli). She serves on the Board of directors of the journal Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies (https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/memoria_di_shakespeare) as well as the journal Status Quaestionis (https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/status_quaestionis); she also serves on the editorial board of DIVE-IN. An International Journal on Diversity and Inclusion (https://dive-in.unibo.it/index). She serves on the editorial board of Shakespeare and Text, Cambridge University Press (series editors: Rory Loughnane and Claire L.M. Bourne). She is currently President (2020-23) of Iasems - Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies, and is a founding member of the Italian Virginia Woolf Society.