Diego Saglia


Diego Saglia is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Parma. He received his PhD from Cardiff University and, before joining Parma, taught at Cardiff University and the University of Bath. He is a member of the advisory committee of the “Museo Byron a Palazzo Guiccioli”, the coordinator of the Parma Unit of the, and a member of the steering committees of Anglo-Hispanic Horizons, 1780s-1840s and .
In October 2022 he was

Research

His research focuses on the literature and culture of the Romantic period, in particular on exoticism and orientalism, Gothic, national identity and gender; as well as on drama and theatre, and several central figures of the period including Jane Austen, Lord Byron, Robert Southey, Felicia Hemans, and Walter Scott. His research also explores the international and transcultural relations between Britain and other European traditions at the turn of the nineteenth century. In particular, Saglia has contributed to the investigation of Anglo-Hispanic relations in the Romantic age with his ongoing investigation of constructions of the image of Romantic Spain in British Romanticism, as well as textual and broader cultural exchanges between Britain and Spain from the 1780s to the 1830s. His monograph Poetic Castles in Spain: British Romanticism and Figurations of Iberia is often quoted as a crucial point of reference in this area of study.
His essays have appeared in Studies in Romanticism, La questione romantica, The Keats-Shelley Journal, Romanticism, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Textus, English Literary History, Textual Practice, Studies in the Novel, Gothic Studies, Genre, Studies in English Literature and other international journals.
Saglia’s edited book Byron e il segno plurale: tracce del sé, percorsi di scrittura was awarded the Elma Dangerfield Award of the International Byron Society in 2012; and his co-edited volume Byron and Italy was awarded the 2018 Elma Dangerfield Award of the International Byron Society.
His monograph European Literatures in Britain 1815-1832: Romantic Translations has been reviewed by The BARS Review as a "fine study highly recommended to all who research and teach Romantic-period literature. As the Continent of the present feels increasingly isolated, he encourages us to open up our Romantic readings to the Continent of the past."
From January 2017 to December 2023, Saglia was Head of the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Industries of the Università di Parma and a member of the University Senate. Since November 2023 he has been Rectoral Delegate for Cultural Institutions.

Publications

Books written

  • Saglia, Diego. Byron and Spain: Itinerary in the Writing of Place. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1996.
  • Saglia, Diego. I discorsi dell'esotico: L'oriente nel romanticismo britannico, 1780-1830. Napoli: Liguori, 2002.
  • Saglia, Diego. Leggere Austen. Roma: Carocci, 2016.
  • Saglia, Diego. European Literatures in Britain, 1815-1832: Romantic Translations. Cambridge University Press, 2019
  • Saglia, Diego. Modernità del Romanticismo: Scrittura e cambiamento nella letteratura britannica, 1780-1830 . Marsilio, 2023
  • Saglia, Diego, I mondi di Jane Austen. Roma: Carocci, 2024

Edited

  • Saglia, Diego and Giovanna Silvani. Narrare/Rappresentare: Incroci di segni fra immagine e parola. Bologna: CLUEB, 2003.
  • Saglia, Diego and Giovanna Silvani. Il teatro della paura: Scenari gotici del romanticismo europeo. Roma: Bulzoni, 2005
  • Battaglia, Beatrice and Diego Saglia. Re-drawing Austen: Picturesque Travels in Austenland. Napoli: Liguori, 2004.
  • Bandiera, Laura and Diego Saglia. De claris mulieribus: Figure e storie femminili nella tradizione europea : Scritti in onore di Giovanna Silvani. Parma: Monte Università Parma, 2011
  • Fischer, Carolin, Diego Saglia and Brunhilde Wehinger. Konzepte der Rezeption. Band 1: Réception productive: imitatio, intertextualité, intermédialité; Produktive Rezeption: Imitatio, intertextualität, intermedialität; Ricezione produttiva: imitatio, intertestualità, intermedialità. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2015
  • Saglia, Diego and Ian Haywood. Spain in British Romanticism: 1800-1840. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
  • Rawes, Alan and Diego Saglia. Byron and Italy. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018.
  • Accardo, Aldo and Diego Saglia. Le isole di fantasia. Un viaggio immaginario di Lord Byron in Corsica e Sardegna. Roma: Donzelli, 2018.
  • Byron, George G. Manfred, a cura di Diego Saglia, con testo a fronte. Venezia: Marsilio, 2019.
  • Gamer, Michael and Diego Saglia. A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
  • Dowling, Gregory and Diego Saglia. Byron in Italia. Bologna: Minerva, 2020.
  • Dowling, Gregory and Diego Saglia. Byron e Dante. Bologna: Minerva, 2021.