Research: Drama by Contemporary Indigenous Women Playwrights in the U.S.A. and Canada
Sara Riccetti is a Ph.D. student in Studies in English Literatures, Language and Translation (curriculum: literary and cultural studies). She holds a B.A. in Foreign Languages and Cultures (2007) and an M.A. in Languages for International Relations and Cooperation (2010) from LUMSA University (Rome, Italy). She graduated with an M.A. in English and Anglo-American Studies (2020) from Sapienza University (Rome, Italy) with a thesis that focused on theatrical melodrama by women playwrights in nineteenth-century United States. She is also a theatre director and practitioner. Before studying at Sapienza University, she worked in Italy as an assistant director and actor, most notably with director Gabriele Lavia. From 2013 to 2018 she lived in the United Kingdom where she studied acting and directing (Rose Brudford College of Theatre and Drama, the IDSA in London), and she directed and performed in theatre productions (London, Brighton.) She has trained in both Method, Biomechanics, and the physical approach developed by Jerzy Grotowsky and Eugenio Barba (in Italy, Denmark, Serbia, and Germany.) In the U.K. she also worked as a teacher of English and Italian. In 2008, she translated the libretto of the musical opera based on the play The Servant by Robin Maugham, staged in the same year at the Sferisterio Opera Festival. Other translations include the book by feminist writer and artist Martha Rosler, Service: a Trilogy on Colonization, published in 2014. In 2019, whilst studying for her M.A. at Sapienza, she took part in the summer training school “V4Py: Gentle Introduction to Natural Language Processing and Corpus Linguistics” hosted by Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. The school is part of the Training Digital Scholars: Knowledge Exchange between V4 and Austria Series financed by the Visegrad Fund Project and organized by partners of the DARIAH Central European Hub, in coordination with the DigiLing Summer school. She is currently working on Indigenous drama by contemporary women playwrights from the U.S. and Canada. Her research interests include Modern and Contemporary English and American drama, Indigenous theatre and performance in North America, Indigenous research methodologies, Decoloniality, Feminist Critical Theory, Performance Theory, and Digital Humanities.