Paolo Bugliani is assistant professor of English Literature at the University of Pisa.
He has previously taught at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” and Padua, and he has been a visiting scholar at Wolfson College (Oxford). His main research area is the history of English and North American life-writing, and in particular the strategies of the masquerading of the biographical self of in essayistic and auto/biographical texts by early modern, Romantic and Modernist authors. In addition to that, he has also engaged with animal studies and he has studied the import of human-animal relations in the history of the literary essay.
Another area of study is the comparative study of Anglo-Italian and Anglo-French cultural relations, with special emphasis on the mediators, the translation of classics and the mechanisms of their dissemination abroad. In addition to some monographic volumes, he has authored articles that have appeared both in national and international journals (among which The European Romantic Review, Between, Erea, Enthymema, and La Questione Romantica) and edited volumes (Enduring Presence: William Hogarth’s British and European Afterlives and The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay).
