Daniela Guardamagna, recently retired, formerly Full Professor of English Literature, taught in Pescara and in Urbino, and in the last 26 years taught at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
She has been Head of the Department of Humanities, Member of the Board of AIA (Italian Association of English Studies), is Member of the Doctorate in Comparative Studies, Member of AIA, ANDA (Italian Association of Lecturers in English Literature), IASEMS (Italian Association of Early Modern English Studies), ESRA (European Shakespeare Association) and ESSE (European Association for English Studies).
Her main fields of study are Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Shakespeare’s tragedies and problem plays, Beckett, and dystopia, on which she published various volumes and articles, both in Italy and abroad.
She directed a Master on Literary and Film Translation; a Master on AVT (Film Adaptation); adapted, for RAI, the BBC versions of Othello, Macbeth and The Tempest.
Among her book-volume publications: Roman Shakespeare: Intersecting Times, Spaces, Languages (ed.), Oxford and New York: Peter Lang, 2018; Thomas Middleton, drammaturgo giacomiano: Il canone ritrovato, Roma: Carocci, 2018; Il testo instabile. Saggi su Shakespeare e Middleton, Roma: Universitalia 2021; with Rosy Colombo (eds), Memoria di Shakespeare 8, On Authorship, Roma 2012; with Rossana M. Sebellin (eds), The Tragic Comedy of Samuel Beckett, Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2009; with Anna Anzi, Il teatro giacomiano e carolino, Roma: Carocci, 2002; L’assenza del cielo: Il teatro inglese da Giacomo I alla chiusura dei teatri, Roma 2001; La narrativa di Aldous Huxley, Bari: Adriatica 1989; with Carlo Pagetti and Clara Mucci, Recitazioni: maschere e controfigure regali in Richard III, Macbeth, King Lear, Pescara: Libreria dell’Università, 1986; L’analisi dell’incubo: l’utopia da Swift alla fantascienza, Roma: Bulzoni 1980.