Staff

Enrico Martines holds a diploma in Tourism Management, a degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures and a PhD in Romance and Italian Philology. He is currently Associate Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Literature at the University of Parma (Italy). He has worked on Portuguese writers with great potential in the field of literary tourism, such as Fernando Pessoa and José Saramago. As a matter of fact, in the collection Estudos da Edição Crítica de Fernando Pessoa (INCM), he edited the correspondence between Fernando Pessoa and the editors of the magazine Presença and studied the history of this magazine, as well as the relationship between the movement associated with the magazine Orpheu and the so-called "second modernism". He has produced critical-genetic editions and philological studies on the poetry of José Régio and published essays on modern Portuguese (Eça, Cardoso Pires, Saramago, among others) and Brazilian authors. He has coordinated the research project "Fernando Pessoa's Duke of Parma: transcription and edition of an unpublished Shakespearean tragedy", which brings together researchers from the Universities of Parma, Lisbon (Classica), Rome (La Sapienza) and Bogotá (de los Andes). He is the scientific director of the research project entitled 'The Unveiling of Fernando Pessoa's Literary Legacy': The Duke of Parma, approved for funding within the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 theme: HORIZONMSCA-2024-PF-01-01, of the Horizon Europe Programme (Researcher: Carlotta Defenu).

Prof. Fabrizio Boscaglia

Researcher

Fabrizio Boscaglia (Turin, 1981) is Vice-Director of the Master's Degree Course in Religious Studies at the University of Lusófona (Lisbon), where he is a lecturer and member of the LusoGlobe research centre. He is a lecturer in literary tourism at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Education and Administration of the same university and at the National Tourist Board, Turismo de Portugal. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Lisbon, with a thesis on Fernando Pessoa and Islam. His research interests, in the fields of Portuguese Studies and Religious Studies, are threefold: Islam in contemporary Portuguese literature and culture, the work and thought of Fernando Pessoa, and Sufism (Islamic mysticism). He is the author and coordinator of international books and publications, including Orpheu Filosófico: a Geração de Orpheu entre Artes e Filosofia (with Paulo Borges and Pedro Vistas, 2022) and Adalberto Alves: 40 anos de vida literária (con Maria João Cantinho, 2023). He is editor (guest editor) of the journals Pessoa Plural (Brown University, 2016) and El Azufre Rojo (Universidad de Murcia, 2019). He is guest curator of the exhibition Divine Wisdom: the Sufi way at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum (2022-2023), ), as well as exhibitions at the National Library of Portugal, including As Mil e Uma Noites em Portugal (2018). He also coordinates the Database of Islamic Heritage in Portugal, at the University of Lusófona. He is also literary tourism consultant for Art and Soul – Lisboa Pessoa Hotel (since 2018), author of a book of poetry (ll Ritorno dell'Anima, 2021), and coordinator for Portugal of the Ibn ʿArabī MIAS-Latina Studies Association, consultant at King's College London (2022).

Prof. Michela Canepari

Associate Professor

Michela Canepari holds an MA in Critical Theory and a PhD in English Literature from the University of Sussex (UK). She is currently Associate Professor of English Linguistics and Translation at the University of Parma. Her main research interests are discourse analysis and different forms of translation, with a particular focus on specialised languages. Her publications include over ten monographs and several articles on interlingual, intralingual and intersemiotic translation, the popularisation of specialised languages and new methodologies for teaching English as a second language.

Dr. Maria Elena Capitani

Postdoctoral Researcher and Adjunct Professor

Maria Elena Capitani holds a Bachelor's degree in Modern Foreign Civilisations and Languages and a Master's degree in European and Euro-American Civilisations and Languages from the University of Parma, where she was awarded the title of Doctor Europaeus in 2016. In 2014 and 2015 she was a visiting scholar at the Universitat de Barcelona (Spain) and the University of Reading (UK). Her main interests are 20th and 21st century British literature/culture, especially dramaturgy, fiction, intertextuality, adaptation and theatrical translation. She has has delivered presentations at numerous international conferences and published several articles on contemporary British dramaturgy. Since 2016, she has been an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Parma, where she was a Research Fellow in the two-year project Reprising Romanticism: Romantic Re-Creations in Contemporary British Theatre (1980-2020). At the same university, she began a second research fellowship in 2024 on the project “The Liberal (1821-23): Critical Study, Electronic Edition and Present-Day Resonances” (Tutor-PI: Prof. Diego Saglia). She is co-investigator of the three-year research project Gender, Affect and Care in Twenty-First Century British Theatre, funded by the Spanish Ministry (PI: Clara Escoda, Universitat de Barcelona).

Prof. Andrea Ragusa

R esearcher

Andrea Ragusa teaches Portuguese language and translation at the University of Parma and is a member of the IELT (Instituto de Literatura e Tradição-Universidade Nova de Lisboa). His areas of research are translation studies, Portuguese linguistics and specialised languages, to which he has devoted several courses and seminars at the Universities of Pisa, Trieste and Parma. He edited the volume Veneza. Versão de Antero de Quental (Lisbon, Saguão, 2022) and translated into Italian works by Antero de Quental, Fernando Pessoa, José de Almada Negreiros, Fialho de Almeida, António Ramos Rosa and, in Portuguese, Una questione privata by Beppe Fenoglio and Lepoardi's Pensieri. In 2019, he published the essay Como exilados de um céu distante. Antero de Quental and Giacomo Leopardi. He is currently working on the study Corrispondenze lusofile. Tommaso Cannizzaro and the ‘translation essay’ from Portuguese.

Prof. Diego Saglia

Full Professor

Diego Saglia is Professor of English Literature at the University of Parma (Italy). His research focuses on Romantic literature and culture, also in relation to other European traditions, and he is the author of numerous monographs, edited and co-edited books, and journal articles on Romantic themes. He contributes to the online museum Romantic Europe: The Virtual Exhibition (RÊVE), current director of the Centro Interuniversitario di Studi sul Romanticismo (CISR) and member of the advisory board of the Byron Museum in Ravenna.

Prof. Diego Varini

Associate Professor

Diego Varini is Associate Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Parma. A specialist in Baroque and twentieth-century literature, he has published a monograph on Cavalier Marino, annotated editions of seventeenth-century political prosecutors (Anton Giulio Brignole Sale, Virgilio Malvezzi) and, in the contemporary field, contributions to books and journals on twentieth-century fiction and poetry. Other areas of interest include the 18th century: aspects of literary autobiography, odeptic narratives, forms of satirical and didactic poetry. He is a member of the Inter-University Centre Geolitterae. L'immaginario spaziale fra letteratura e geografia.