Phd in STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURES, LANGUAGE AND
TRANSLATION

Research: British Voices of Empire: Poetry and Imperial Patriotism in the Long Nineteenth Century

Paolo D’Indinosante is a PhD student in English Literatures, Language, and Translation at Sapienza University of Rome (curriculum in Literary and Cultural Studies), in cotutelle with the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. In 2023, he was a Visiting Research Student at the University of Roehampton, London. In 2024, he was an Occasional Postgraduate Research Student at Newcastle University and the recipient of the Emerging Scholar Award given by Common Ground Research Networks at the Twenty-Second International Conference on ‘New Directions in the Humanities’. In 2025, he received an honourable mention at the fifth edition of the Minerva Award for Scientific Research, conferred by Roma Sapienza Foundation in collaboration with Sapienza University of Rome. His doctoral dissertation focusses on the interplay between British poetry and the Empire in the long nineteenth century. As well as British literature (particularly modern and contemporary poetry) and culture (particularly imperial culture in the long nineteenth century), his research interests include Neo-Victorianism, the Italian reception of the life and works of Rudyard Kipling and the intersections of literary works and video games. He has been the PI for three one-year research projects funded by Sapienza: ‘The British Empire in Verse: Patriotic Poetry Anthologies in Great Britain, 1880–1914’ (November 2022–November 2023); ‘Gold and Diamond: British Royal Jubilee Poetry, 1809–1897’ (November 2023–November 2024); ‘Victorian Poetry and the Indian Uprising, c. 1857–1901’ (November 2024–November 2025). He has also been a non-tenured research group member for two research projects funded by Sapienza: ‘I classici modernisti e i nuovi canoni, 1990–2022’ (Modernist Classics and New Canons, 1990–2022) (2022–2024) and ‘Modernism and Empire in European Literature (1890–1940)’ (2024–2026). Since 2024, he has served on the Steering Board of the Annual International Conference ‘Games and Literary Theory’ (GamesLit) and has been responsible for public engagement activities on literature, video games and ideologies (‘(V)Ideologie. Tra letteratura e videogioco’) at the Social Promotion Association ‘sVejo’ in Rome. He is a Council Member of the Kipling Society and a member of the Associazione Italiana di Anglistica (Italian Association of English Studies), the European Society for the Study of English, the British Association for Victorian Studies, the Research Association for Victorian Periodicals, the Victorian Popular Fiction Association, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, the Italian Oscar Wilde Society, the Postcolonial Studies Association, the Italian Digital Games Research Association and the Digital Games Research Association. From 2018 to 2023, he was part of the Editorial Team of ‘Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies’, a class A journal (as defined by ANVUR, the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes). Since 2023, he has been part of the Editorial Staff of ‘Status Quaestionis. Language, Text, Culture’, also a class A journal (ANVUR).