Research: Imperial Voices in Verse: British Poetry and the Empire, c. 1815–1914
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. His doctoral project focusses on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British imperial poetry. He is the PI for two one-year research projects funded by Sapienza: ‘The British Empire in Verse: Patriotic Poetry Anthologies in Great Britain, 1880–1914’ (November 2022–November 2023) and ‘Gold and Diamond: British Royal Jubilee Poetry, 1809–1897’ (November 2023–November 2024). He is also 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). As well as British literature (particularly modern and contemporary poetry) and culture (particularly imperial culture in the long nineteenth century), his research interests include the Italian reception of the literary works of Rudyard Kipling (especially in the years 1890 to 1939) and the intersections of literary works and video games. 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, the Italian Oscar Wilde Society, 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).