Phd in STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURES, LANGUAGE AND
TRANSLATION

email: mario.martino@uniroma1.it
phone: 068837481
building: Marco Polo
room: 339

Mario Martino, after graduating in Rome, obtained his PhD at Florence University, in 1994. He is Full Professor of English Literature,  La Sapienza - University of Rome. He has previously taught at the Universities of Sheffield and Reading (Great Britain), Messina and Florence. He is responsible for Erasmus exchanges between La Sapienza and the Universities of Cambridge, of York, Birmingham, and Oviedo. Besides essays on the Elizabethan and 17^th century lyric, on the novel and narrative forms of the 19th century, and on 20th century literature, he has published  Il problema del tempo nei sonetti di Shakespeare, 1984,  Dickens e la crisi della scrittura, 1996,   and Beckett e il romanzo modernista: Murphy, 2003. He has translated in Italian  Hard Times (2004) and  Oliver Twist (2005), and has edited Great Expectations (1998) and David Copperfield (2004). He has also published  Oliver Twist e il cinema (Palermo 2011), and co-edited  Letteratura e cinema, (Roma 2013), Visualità e scrittura (Roma 2017), and Letteratura e storia (Roma 2020). He is co-director of the series “Lo Scudo di Achille” (Lithos).His research interests include: Elizabethan and 17^th century lyric; the Victorian novel and narrative, Modernism and Beckett. He is currently engaged in a project on literature and science.