CIOCCA Rossella

Rossella Ciocca is Professor of English and Anglophone Literatures and has been Coordinator of the PhD Programme in Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies at the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’.

In the past she has worked on early modern literature and culture, Shakespeare, modernism, postmodernism, literary and critical theory. Her publications include volumes on Shakespeare (Il cerchio d’oro. I re sacri nel teatro shakespeariano, 1987; La musica dei sensi. Amore e pulsione nello Shakespeare comico-romantico, 1999). She has translated and edited The Taming of the Shrew and King John for the Bompiani Edition of Shakespeare: The Complete Works.

Her more recent research and teaching interests include Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Colonial History, South Asian Anglophone Literatures, Ecocriticism, Posthumanism, Transhumanism. Her published works include a volume on the literary representations of otherness from early modern to pre-modernist periodsm, I volti dell’altro. Saggio sulla diversità (UniorPress, 1990), essays on contemporary South Asian writers, Shakespearean appropriations in the Indian Subcontinent, the Partition of India, the city of Mumbai’s fiction, sustainability and ecocriticism in the Global South, the Posthuman and the Transhuman. She has edited with Sanjukta Das Gupta, Adivasi Histories, Stories, Visual Arts and Performances (Anglistica AION An Interdisciplinary Journal, 19.1, 2015); with Neelam Srivastava the volume Indian Literature and The World (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2017) and has edited with Alex Tickell Millennium’s Children. New Trends in South-Asian Postmillennial Anglophone Literature (Textus, XXXIII, 3, 2020). More recent publications are:
R. Ciocca and S. Manian, Living in the Age of Anger. Representing ‘Negative Solidarities’ in Contemporary Global Culture, Anglistica, An Interdisciplinary Journal, 25/1, 2021
R. Ciocca and M. Cariello, Against. The Age of the Sad Passions, de genere. Rivista di studi letterari, postcoloniali e di genere (fascia A) special issue 2024.
R. Ciocca and M. Cariello, Imaginative kin-making. Narrating alternative forms of kinship in survival literature and fiction, From the European South. A transdisciplinary Journal of Postcolonial Humanities, n. 16 (2025)
Following up on her research interests, she teaches a range of undergraduate and graduate courses, respectively on Shakespeare, Modernism/Postmodernism and on Postcolonial Theory and Anglophone Literatures, Ecocriticism, Post humanism and Transhumanism.

She is member of the Research Centres: Dis – 4 Change: Studi sul Discorso Climatico e Ambientale; Centro Internazionale di Ricerca Letterature e Psicoanalisi (CIRLEP); Centro Studi sull’Apprendimento e le Didattiche Disciplinari (CSADD). She is the director of the UniorPress Series Quaderni della Ricerca, and member of the Editorial Board of Anglistica. An Interdisciplinary Journal; of the international Journal 'Literature' (for special issues); of the Liguori Publisher Series in "Literature and Literary Criticism", of the Tangram Publisher series on English Studies.