Iolanda Plescia

Associate Professor of English Language /
Master's Degree Coordinator

Iolanda Plescia is an Associate Professor of English in the department of European, American and Intercultural Studies of 'Sapienza' University of Rome. She earned her PhD in 2006 at Sapienza, where she taught English language and translation before going on to complete a two-year research fellowship at Roma Tre University (Rome, 2008-2010).
Among her research interests are stylistics, the history of the English language, the history of Italian-English translation, with special regard to the early modern age and the twentieth century. She has most recently worked on the political dimension of Virginia Woolf's use of language in her essay-writing (in 'Visione politica e strategie linguistiche', Rubbettino editore, 2010), on diachronic perspectives on Shakespeare's style (stylistic analysis of Macbeth in Memoria di Shakespeare, 2009), on intersections between literary and scientific texts, scientific translation in early modern England, linguistic modality.

Contact: iolanda.plescia@uniroma1.it 
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