Prof.ssa Angela Locatelli

ANGELA LOCATELLI is Professor of English Literature at the University of Bergamo (www.unibg.it), Adjunct Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (www.sas.upenn.edu/religious_studies), and Faculty member of the International PhD Network established in 2008 by the University of Giessen (Germany) with the Universities of Helsinki, Stockholm, The Catholic University of Lisbon, and Bergamo (http://phdnet.uni-giessen.de). In 2006 she was invited into IAUPE (International Association of University Professors of English). In 1999 and 2008 she was awarded a Short-term Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. (www.folger.edu). She is a member of the ACUME2 Project International Research Team (acume2.web.cs.unibo.it). She is on the Editorial Board of several academic journals (Textus, Fogli di Anglistica, Merope, Dintorni) and member of the reading panel of Tropismes). Angela Locatelli is one of the three General Editors of EJES (The European Journal of English Studies www.essenglish.org/ejes.html). Her main research interests are literary theory and semiotics of culture. She has written extensively on Shakespeare and Renaissance culture and literature. Her publications include a book on the "stream of consciousness" novel, and several articles on Modernist and Postmodern fiction, and 20th Century drama. She has also published the first edition (with an Italian translation) of Henry Peacham's A Merry Discourse of Meum and Tuum (1639) (Il Doppio e il Picaresco, Milano, Jaca Book, 1998), and has edited seven volumes on literary epistemology (The Knowledge of Literature/La conoscenza della Letteratura, 2002-2008; www.sestanteedizioni.it).