Francesca Saggini
Affiliation: University of Tuscia
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Theatre and Performance, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Dr Francesca Saggini is Professor in English Literature at the Università degli Studi della Tuscia (Viterbo), Italy. Francesca is the author of, among others, The Gothic Novel and the Stage: Romantic Appropriations (2015, Honourable Mention at the 2016 ESSE Book Awards) and Backstage in the Novel: Frances Burney and the Theater Arts (2012, Walken Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work in eighteenth-century studies). In 2021-2023, Francesca was PI on a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions-funded project at the University of Edinburgh (Opening Romanticism: Reimagining Romantic Drama for New Audiences, OpeRaNew, Grant ID. 892230).
Email: fsaggini@unitus.it
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1600-5821