David Lucking
Research Interests
- William Shakespeare
- Canadian Literature
- Joseph Conrad
Affiliation
University of Salento, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Department of Humanities, Retired
Recent Books
David Lucking sees Shakespeare’s plays as negotiating tensions between a number of alternative, and sometimes mutually antagonistic, perspectives. Some of these perspectives are associated with particular languages, cultures and texts, while others involve philosophical issues such as the nature of personal ontology and distinctions between reality and dream, being and nothingness. In elaborating his insights Lucking draws extensive comparisons with Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura, and between Sophocles’ Theban plays and King Lear, and he also pays close attention to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry V, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and Antony and Cleopatra.
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The argument of the book is that at a time in European cultural history in which the problem of knowledge was a matter of intensifying philosophical concern, Shakespeare too was in his own way exploring the possibilities and shortcomings of the various interpretative models that can be applied to experience so as to make it intelligible. While modes of understanding based upon such notions as those of naturalistic causality or rational human agency are shown to be inadequate in Shakespeare’s plays, his characters often impart form and significance to their experience through what are essentially narrative means, projecting stories onto events in order to make sense of them and to direct their activity accordingly.
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Until his retirement in 2021 David Lucking was Full Professor of English at the University of Salento, where he was a member of the Department of Humanistic Studies.
His educational trajectory began with schooling in Montréal and Toronto, and included a two-year period at Bosphorus University (then Robert College) in Istanbul during which he majored in Comparative Literature. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Leeds, gaining a first class combined honours degree in English and Philosophy and winning the university's Crabtree Prize for academic excellence. Funded by a university studentship awarded on the basis of academic merit, he subsequently earned his PhD at the same institution, writing his doctoral dissertation on religious elements in the fiction of Joseph Conrad.
In the course of his career at the University of Salento he taught English literature at both basic and advanced degree levels, and for a number of years also taught at the ISUFI (“Istituto Superiore Universitario per la Formazione Interdisciplinare”). Among the specialized courses he taught were Shakespeare Studies, Modern English Literature, Canadian Literature in English, and English Language.
Although his research interests are fairly diversified, extending to Canadian and American as well as British literature, he has in recent years centred his research activities primarily on English Renaissance literature and on Shakespeare in particular. A theme that crops up with some regularity in his work is that of language in its relation to identity, an issue he has explored from various points of view and in relation to different authors. The role played by narrative in the constructive of personal and social realities has also been a recurrent concern in his work. He is the author of Shakespearean Perspectives (2017), Making Sense in Shakespeare (2012), The Shakespearean Name: Essays on “Romeo and Juliet”, “The Tempest”, and Other Plays (2007), The Serpent’s Part: Narrating the Self in Canadian Literature (2003), Ancestors and Gods: Margaret Laurence and the Dialectics of Identity (2002), Plays Upon the Word: Shakespeare’s Drama of Language (1997), Myth and Identity: Essays on Canadian Literature (1995), Beyond Innocence: Literary Transformations of the Fall (1991), and Conrad’s Mysteries: Variations on an Archetypal Theme (1986). He has published numerous articles in international peer-reviewed journals such as Essays in Criticism, English Studies, Cahiers Élisabéthains, The Upstart Crow, English, The University of Toronto Quarterly, Cambridge Quarterly, Durham University Journal, The Dalhousie Review, Early Modern Literary Studies, Renaissance Forum, Fictions, Skenè, Rhesis, Canadian Literature, and Studies in Canadian Literature, as well as in various Italian journals. A substantial number of his papers on Shakespeare have been reprinted in various venues, and others are available online. Copies of some of these articles are available for download on the Humanities Commons website.
Publications
A) BOOKS
2017 Shakespearean Perspectives: Essays on Poetic Negotiation. FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures. Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
[ISBN 9789027201331]
2012 Making Sense in Shakespeare. Costerus New Series 193. Amsterdam-New York: Brill-Rodopi, 2012.
[ISBN 9789042035027]
2007 The Shakespearean Name: Essays on Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, and Other Plays. Bern-Berlin-Bruxelles-Frankfurt/M-New York-Oxford-Wien: Peter Lang, 2007.
[ISBN 9783039112265]
2003 The Serpent’s Part: Narrating the Self in Canadian Literature. Bern-Berlin-Bruxelles-Frankfurt/M-New York-Oxford-Wien: Peter Lang, 2003.
[ISBN 3039100394]
2002 Giorno nella notte: quattro saggi su “Romeo e Giulietta”. Lecce: Milella, 2002.
[ISBN 8870483800]
2002 Ancestors and Gods: Margaret Laurence and the Dialectics of Identity. Bern-Berlin-Bruxelles-Frankfurt/M-New York-Oxford-Wien: Peter Lang, 2002.
[ISBN 3906767566]
1997 Plays Upon the Word: Shakespeare’s Drama of Language. Lecce: Milella, 1997.
[ISBN 8870483290]
1995 Myth and Identity: Essays on Canadian Literature. Lecce: Milella, 1995.
[ISBN 8870482995]
1991 Beyond Innocence: Literary Transformations of the Fall. Rome: Nuova Arnica, 1991.
1986 Conrad’s Mysteries: Variations on an Archetypal Theme. Lecce: Milella, 1986.
[ISBN 8870481298]
1983 The Artifice of Eternity: An Essay on “The Tempest”. Lecce: Adriatica Editrice Salentina, 1983.
1982 The Choice of Nightmares: Conrad’s “Lord Jim” and “Heart of Darkness”. Lecce: Adriatica Editrice Salentina: Lecce, 1982.
B) EDITED BOOK
2016 Living Art: Essays on Words and the World. Padova: libreriauniversitaria.it edizioni, 2016.
[ISBN 9788862927086]
C) ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS
Forthcoming "Famous Last Words: The Rhetoric of Death and Dying in Shakespeare".
2024 "Il miglior fabbro: Dante e T.S. Eliot". La mente di Dante: Visioni, percezioni, rappresentazioni, edited by Alessandra Beccarisi, et al, 409-21. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2024.
[ISBN: 9788893598743]
2023 “Romeo and Juliet and its Intertexts”. Rhesis: International Journal of Linguistics, Philology, and Literature 14,2 (2023): 18-43.
[https://doi.org/10.13125/rhesis/5921]
2022 “Becoming Cleopatra”. Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies 108,1 (2022): 152–63.
[https://doi.org/10.1177/01847678221094640]
2022 “‘Battling at the name of Skanderbeg’: The Literary Metamorphoses of George Castriot”. Studia Albanica 55,2 (2018): 121-48.
[https://albanica.al/studialbanica/article/view/335]
2020 “Stony Limits and Envious Walls: Metamorphosing Ovid in Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream”. Skenè: Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies 6,2 (2020): 147-68.
[https://doi.org/10.13136/sjtds.v6i2.274]
2020 “Setting Our House in Order: Margaret Laurence’s A Bird in the House”. Ecology and Partnership Studies in Anglophone Literatures, edited by Antonella Riem Natale & John Thieme, 75-94. Udine: Forum, 2020.
[ISBN: 9788832832068]
2020 “To Tell Whose Story?: Narrative Identity and its Discontents in Shakespeare”. Fictions: Studi sulla narratività 19 (2020): 45-59.
[http://dx.medra.org/10.19272/202006901005]
2020 “‘A place i’th’ story’”: Narrative, Meaning and Identity in Antony and Cleopatra”. Lingue e Linguaggi 36 (2020): 137-53.
[https://dx.doi.org/10.1285/i22390359v36p137]
2019 “‘More than two tens to a score’: Disquantification in King Lear”. Oedipus at Colonus and King Lear : Classical and Early Modern Intersections (Skenè Studies 1.2), edited by Silvia Bigliazzi, 317-37. Verona. Skenè, 2019.
[https://doi.org/10.13136/ts.67]
2019 “‘The Elements so Mix’d’: Empedoclean Cosmology in The Tempest”. Skenè: Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies 5,1 (2019): 23-43.
[https://doi.org/10.13136/sjtds.v5i1.229]
2018 “‘The Little O’: Signifying Nothing in Shakespeare”. Lingue e Linguaggi 27 - Numero speciale (2018): 285-305.
[https://dx.doi.org/10.1285/i22390359v27p285]
2017 “Enacting Chronology: Language and Time in Chiang’s ‘Story of Your Life’ and Villeneuve’s Arrival”. Lingue e Linguaggi 21 (2017): 129-433.
[https://dx.doi.org/10.1285/i22390359v21p129]
2016 “First and Final Things: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 145, and his Epitaph”. Lingue e Linguaggi 19 (2016): 221-33.
[https://dx.doi.org/10.1285/i22390359v19p221]
2016 “The Choice: Perfecting the Life or the Work”. Living Art: Essays on Words and the World, edited by David Lucking, 17-40. Padova: libreriauniversitaria.it edizioni, 2016.
[ISBN 9788862927086]
2016 “Introduction”. Living Art: Essays on Words and the World, edited by David Lucking, 7-16. Padova: libreriauniversitaria.it edizioni, 2016.
[ISBN 9788862927086]
2015 “Babel on the Battlefield: Englishing the French in Shakespeare’s Henry V”. Lingue e Linguaggi 13 (2015): 211-25.
[https://dx.doi.org/10.1285/i22390359v13p211]
2015 “Bad News: Medium as Message in Antony and Cleopatra”. English Studies 96,6 (August 2015): 619-35.
[https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2015.1045727]
2014 “Lear and the Learned Theban”. Lingue e Linguaggi 11 (July 2014): 123-41.
[https://dx.doi.org/10.1285/i22390359v11p123]
2013 “‘Imagining the Mage in English Renaissance Drama: Doctor Faustus, The Alchemist, The Tempest”. Magie, Tarantismus, und Vampirismus: Eine interdisziplinäre Annäherung, edited by Monica Genesin, Joachim Matzinger & Giancarlo Vallone, 43-60. Hamburg: Kovač, 2013.
[ISBN: 9783830074441]
2011 “Translation and Metamorphosis in A Midsummer Night's Dream”. Essays in Criticism 61,2 (April 2011): 137-54.
[https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/escrit/cgr002]
2010 “Brutus's Reasons: Julius Caesar and the Mystery of Motive”. English Studies 91,2 (April 2010): 119-132.
[https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138380903355148]
2010 “‘That historyless man, George Castriot’: The Scanderbeg Legend in English Literature”. The Living Skanderbeg: The Albanian Hero between Myth and Reality, edited by Monica Genesin, Joachim Matzinger & Giancarlo Vallone, 1-18. Hamburg: Kovač, 2010.
[ISBN: 9783830044161]
2009 “Killing Metaphors in Julius Caesar”. Lingue e Linguaggi 3 (2009): 73-87.
2009 “Reply to Wendy Roy’s ‘Metaphors of Dualism in Margaret Laurence’s Writings’”. Lingue e Linguaggi 3 (2009): 203-6.
2008 “Hamlet and the Narrative Construction of Reality”. English Studies 89,2 (April 2008): 152-65.
[https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138380801912958]
2008 “To Tell My Story: Narrating Identity in Shakespeare”. The Upstart Crow: A Shakespeare Journal 27 (2007/2008): 52-66.
[https://www.clemson.edu/centers-institutes/cedp/about/upstart-crow/content-lists/volume-xxvii.html]
2008 “To Double Business Bound: Hamlet and Julius Caesar as Tragic Diptych”. Lingue e Linguaggi 1 (2008): 157-174.
2008 “Unsettling the Wilderness: The Interloping Pioneer in Atwood and Grove”. American and Canadian Literature and Culture Across a Latitudinal Line, edited by Klaus Martens & Paul Morris, 13-27. Saarbrücken: Amarant Presse, 2008.
2006 “Imperfect Speakers: Macbeth and the Name of King”. English Studies 87,4 (August 2006): 415-25.
[https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138380600768247]
2006 “Journeymen in Darkness: Joseph Conrad and the Canadian Literary Imagination”. Quaderni 24 (2006), Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Università del Salento: 187-201.
2006 “Laurence’s Comedy of the Soul” — Review of Margaret Laurence’s Epic Imagination, by Paul Comeau. Margaret Laurence Review 15-16 (2005-2006): 23-7.
2005 “A Bird of Another Feather: Will Shake-Scene’s Belated Revenge”. The Upstart Crow: A Shakespeare Journal 25 (2005): 51-57.
[https://www.clemson.edu/centers-institutes/cedp/about/upstart-crow/content-lists/volume-xxv.html]
2005 “Narcissus in the Underworld: Counterpointing Myths in The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’. The Ugo Mursia Memorial Lectures: Second Series, edited by Mario Curreli, 43-54. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2005.
[ISBN: 9788846712271]
2004 “Carrying Tempest in His Hand and Voice: The Figure of the Magician in Jonson and Shakespeare”. English Studies 85,4 (August 2004): 297-310.
[https://doi.org/10.1080/00138380412331339118]
2004 “Shakespeare and the Name of King”. Quaderni 21 (1999 [2004]), Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Università degli Studi di Lecce: 163-95.
2003 “‘A second Eden just emerged from the waters of chaos’: Making Things New in Roughing It in the Bush”. The Canadian Alternative, edited by Klaus Martens, 92-104. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2003.
[ISBN: 9783826026362]
2003 “Art of a Stranger” — Review of Lyall Powers, Alien Heart: The Life and Work of Margaret Laurence. Margaret Laurence Review 13 (2003): 5-8.
2002 “Hagar's Bestiary: Zoological Imagery in Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel”. Rivista di Studi Canadesi 15 (2002): 95-105.
2001 “Sparks Struck from Cold Stone: Petrographical Symbolism in Conrad’s Lord Jim”. Ricerca Research Recherche, Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Università degli Studi di Lecce, 7 (2001): 365-77.
2001 “La dicotomia Ordine-Disordine nella letteratura anglo-canadese”. Quaderni del Premio Letterario Giuseppe Acerbi 2 (2001): 109-18.
2001 “Name-Calling in Howard O’Hagan’s Tay John”. Il Canada e le culture della globalizzazione, edited by Alfredo Rizzardi & Giovanni Dotoli, 645-55. Fasano: Schena, 2001.
2001 “Uncomfortable Time in Romeo and Juliet”. English Studies 82,2 (April 2001): 115-26.
[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1076/enst.82.2.115.9595]
2000 “A Will and Two Ways: The Ambivalence of Evil in Robertson Davies’s The Deptford Trilogy”. Canadian Literature n. 165 (Summer 2000): 44-56.
[https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/canlit/article/view/193160]
2000 “Our Devils Now Are Ended: A Comparative Analysis of The Tempest and Doctor Faustus”. Dalhousie Review 80,2 (Summer 2000): 151-67.
[https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/handle/10222/63415]
1999 “The Unmerry-go-round of Pointless Words: Margaret Laurence’s The Fire-Dwellers as Thematic Complement to A Jest of God”. Ricerca Research Recherche, Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Univ. degli Studi di Lecce, 5 (1999): 327-40.
1999 “Through the Consuming Element: The Journey Motif in Susanna Moodie’s Roughing It in the Bush”. Prospettive di Cultura Canadese: Atti del Seminario Internazionale dell’Associazione Italiana di Studi Canadesi, edited by Giovanni Dotoli, 281-9. Fasano: Schena, 1999.
1998 “That Bare Vowel I: A Note on Romeo and Juliet”. Ricerca Research Recherche, Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Univ. degli Studi di Lecce, 4 (1998): 267-76.
1998 “The Comedy Company of the Psyche: Roles, Masks, and Identity in Robertson Davies’s Deptford Trilogy”. Ricerca Research Recherche, Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Univ. degli Studi di Lecce, 4 (1998): 407-29.
1998 “From Jordan to the Ottonabee: Margaret Laurence’s River”. Acqua: Realtà e Metafora, edited by Caterina Ricciardi, Laura Ferri & Fabio Mugnaini, 179-86. Rome: Semar, 1998.
1998 “Straight Lines in a Curved Space: The Order/Disorder Dichotomy in Anglo-Canadian Literature”. Rivista di Studi Canadesi 11 (1998): 127-40.
1997 “Speaking in Tongues: Liberating Voices in Margaret Laurence’s A Jest of God”. Ricerca Research Recherche, Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Univ. degli Studi di Lecce, 3 (1997): 357-74.
1997 “‘And all things change them to the contrary’: Romeo and Juliet and the Metaphysics of Language”. English Studies 78,1 (January 1997): 8-18.
[https://doi.org/10.1080/00138389708599058]
1997 “Bringing Deformed Forth: Engendering Meaning in Much Ado About Nothing”. Renaissance Forum 2.1 (Spring 1997).
1996 “Each word made true and good: Narrativity in Hamlet”. Dalhousie Review 76,2 (Summer 1996): 177-96.
[https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/handle/10222/63197]
1996 “Ego in Arcadia: The Doctrine of Evil in Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun”. Ricerca Research Recherche, Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Univ. degli Studi di Lecce, 2 (1996): 255-69.
1996 “Rites (and Wrongs) of Passage: Susanna Moodie’s Ambiguous Initiation”. Ricerca Research Recherche, Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Univ. degli Studi di Lecce, 2 (1996): 293-321.
1996 “‘The Price of One Fair Word’: Negotiating Names in Coriolanus”. Early Modern Literary Studies 2.1 (April 1996): 4.1-22.
[http://purl.oclc.org/emls/02-1/luckshak.html]
1995 “Ciò che chiamiamo un nome: La scena del balcone in Romeo and Juliet”. Ricerca Research Recherche, Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Univ. degli Studi di Lecce, 1 (1995): 65-81.
1995 “That Which We Call a Name: The Balcony Scene in Romeo and Juliet”. English 44, n. 178 (Spring 1995): 1-16.
[https://doi.org/10.1093/english/44.178.1]
1995 “Telling Tales in The Turn of the Screw”. Durham University Journal 87,1 (January 1995): 63-71.
1994 “Putting Out the Light: Semantic Indeterminacy and the Deconstitution of Self in Othello”. English Studies 75,2 (March 1994): 110-22.
[https://doi.org/10.1080/00138389408598903]
1994 “‘And Strange Speech is in Your Mouth’: Language and Alienation in Margaret Laurence’s This Side Jordan”. Canadian Literature n. 141 (Summer 1994): 57-69.
[https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/canlit/article/view/193479]
1993 “The Vessel of Metaphor: Naming Names in George Bowering’s Burning Water”. Commonwealth Literary Cultures: New Voices, New Approaches, edited by Giovanna Capone, Claudio Gorlier & Bernard Hickey, 297-307. Lecce: Edizioni del Grifo, 1993.
1993 “‘Dark needs no candles now, for dark is light’: Images of light and darkness in Shakespeare”. La Luce e le sue metafore , edited by Bruna Donatelli, 76-90. Rome: Nuova Arnica, 1993.
1993 “The ‘Real Story’: Making History in Atwood’s The Robber Bride”. Quaderni 15 (1993), Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Univ. degli Studi di Lecce: 201-15.
1992 “The Politics of Consciousness”. Review of Thinking in Henry James, by Sharon Cameron. Cambridge Quarterly 21,4 (1992): 367-70.
[https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/XXI.4.367]
1992 “Comment on David Turner’s ‘Genesis and Revelation’”. Igitur 4,2 (1992): 85-8.
1992 “What is Canadian about Canadian Literature?”. Quaderni 14 (1992), Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Università degli Studi di Lecce: 81-102.
1990 “Making a Name for Oneself: Language and Identity in Conrad’s Lord Jim and Under Western Eyes”. Igitur 2:1 (1990): 55-72.
1990 “In Pursuit of the Faceless Stranger: Depths and Surfaces in Margaret Atwood’s Bodily Harm”. Studies in Canadian Literature 15,1 (1990): 76-93.
[https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/8113]
1989 “Standing for Sacrifice: The Casket and Trial Scenes in The Merchant of Venice”. University of Toronto Quarterly 58,3 (Spring 1989): 355-75.
[https://doi.org/10.3138/utq.58.3.355]
1989 “Distant Music: Symbolic Polarization in Joyce’s ‘The Dead’”. Tempo e Scrittura: Studi in memoria di Bert Charleton, edited by B. Bianco et al, 127-51. Galatina [Lecce]: Congedo Editore,1989.
1987 “Reading into Facts: The Turn of the Screw and the Perils of Interpretation”. Quaderni 9 (1987) Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Università degli Studi di Lecce: 89-141.
1987 “The Long Note of the Bugle: T. E. Hulme’s Theory of Poetry”. Quaderni 9 (1987), Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Università degli Studi di Lecce: 215-46.
1986 “The Canadian Abroad: Modes of Exile in the Novels of Mordecai Richler”. Canada Ieri e Oggi: Atti del VI Convegno Internazionale di Studi Canadesi, vol. II, edited by Giovanni Bonanno, 319-30. Fasano: Schena, 1986.
1985 “Sifting the Ruins of Time: Permanence and Change in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway”. Quaderni 7 (1985) Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Università degli Studi di Lecce: 61-93.
1985 “‘Between Things’: Public Mythology and Personal Identity in the Fiction of Mordecai Richler”. Dalhousie Review 65,2 (Summer 1985): 243-60.
[https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/handle/10222/60633]
1984 “Renewing Fallen Light: Luminary Symbolism and its Manipulation in Shakespeare, Blake and Conrad”. Quaderni 6 (1984), Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Università degli Studi di Lecce: 61-107.
1983 “Cleansing the Doors of Perception: Human Duality and the Problem of Identity in Conrad’s Under Western Eyes”. Quaderni 5 (1983), Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Università degli Studi di Lecce: 47-78.
1982 “The Third Age of Man in Conrad’s Fiction: ‘Youth’, ‘The End of the Tether’ and The Rover”. Quaderni 4 (1982), Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Università degli Studi di Lecce: 63-89.
1982 “Time’s Fools: The Secret Agent and the City of Desolation”. Quaderni 4 (1982), Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Università degli Studi di Lecce: 91-126.
1981 “The Figure in the Carpet: Structure and Theme in the Tales of Henry James”. Quaderni 3 (1981), Ist. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Università degli Studi di Lecce: 85-108.
1980 “Romance as Irony in The American by Henry James”. Quaderni 2 (1980), Ist. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Università degli Studi di Lecce: 93-115.
1979 “Emblems of Passage: The Bhagavad Gita and A Passage to India”. Quaderni 1 (1979), Ist. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Università degli Studi di Lecce: 85-103.
D) REPRINTED ARTICLES (partial list)
2021 “Telling Tales in 'The Turn of the Screw'”. Short Story Criticism, vol. 303, edited by Rebecca Parks. Detroit: Gale, 2021.
[ISBN 9781410398086]
2016 “Dancing to a New Song: The Limits of Community in The Tomorrow-Tamer”. Short Story Criticism, vol. 220, edited by Lawrence J. Trudeau. Detroit: Gale, 2016.
[ISBN 9781410315632]
2011 “Hamlet and the Narrative Construction of Reality”. Shakespearean Criticism, vol. 137, edited by Michelle Lee. Detroit: Gale, 2011.
[ISBN 1414471394]
2010 “Bringing Deformed Forth: Engendering Meaning in Much Ado About Nothing”. Shakespearean Criticism, vol. 131, edited by Michelle Lee, 87-97. Detroit: Gale, 2010.
[ISBN 9781414447766]
2010 “Our Devils Now Are Ended: A Comparative Analysis of The Tempest and Doctor Faustus”. Shakespearean Criticism, vol. 128, edited by Michelle Lee, 337-44. Detroit: Gale, 2010.
[ISBN 1414442017]
2010 “The Sign of the Rose: Romeo and Juliet and the Contexts of Meaning”. Shakespearean Criticism, vol. 126, edited by Michelle Lee, 244-251. Detroit: Gale, 2010.
[ISBN 1414441991]
2009 “Imperfect Speakers: Macbeth and the Name of King”. Shakespearean Criticism, vol. 119, edited by Michelle Lee, 265-72. Detroit: Gale, 2009.
[ISBN 1414433247]
2008 “‘The Price of One Fair Word’: Negotiating Names in Coriolanus”. Shakespearean Criticism, vol. 116, edited by Michelle Lee. Detroit: Gale, 2008.
[ISBN 0787699497]
2007 “‘The Price of One Fair Word’: Negotiating Names in Coriolanus”. Shakespearean Criticism, vol. 106, edited by Michelle Lee. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2007.
[ISBN 0787688444]
2006 “Uncomfortable Time in Romeo and Juliet”. Shakespearean Criticism, vol. 97, edited by Michelle Lee, 84-91. Detroit: Gale, 2006.
[ISBN 0787688355]
2002 “‘And all things change them to the contrary’: Romeo and Juliet and the Metaphysics of Language”. Shakespearean Criticism, vol. 65, edited by Michelle Lee, 208-14. Detroit: Gale, 2002.
[ISBN 0787652407]
2002 “‘The Price of One Fair Word’: Negotiating Names in Coriolanus”. Shakespearean Criticism, vol. 64, edited by Michelle Lee. Detroit: Gale, 2002.
[ISBN 0787652393]
2000 “Putting Out the Light: Semantic Indeterminacy and the Deconstitution of Self in Othello”. Shakespearean Criticism, vol. 53, edited by Michelle Lee, 343-50. Detroit: Gale, 2000.
[ISBN 0787631485]
1999 “‘And all things change them to the contrary’: Romeo and Juliet and the Metaphysics of Language”. Shakespearean Criticism, vol. 42, edited by Michelle Lee, 271-7. Detroit: Gale, 1999.
[ISBN 0787619876]
1997 “That Which We Call a Name: The Balcony Scene in Romeo and Juliet”. Shakespearean Criticism, vol. 32, edited by Marie Lazzari, 276-83. Detroit: Gale, 1997.
[ISBN 0810399784]
1991 “Standing for Sacrifice: The Casket and Trial Scenes in The Merchant of Venice”. Shakespearean Criticism, vol. 13, edited by Sandra L. Williamson, 43-52. Detroit: Gale, 1991.
[ISBN 081036137X]
E) TALKS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS (partial list)
2021 “Il miglior fabbro: Dante e T.S. Eliot”. Presented at the conference La Mente di Dante, Lecce, 3 October 2021.
2021 “Metamorphosing Ovid”. Presented at the “Shakespeare and the Mediterranean International Summer School”, Verona, 28 July 2021.
2021 “Writing the Self: Susanna Moodie’s Roughing It in the Bush”. Cagliari, 8-9 February 2021.
2019 “Becoming Cleopatra”. Presented at the conference Shakespeare and European Geographies: Centralities and Elsewheres (Convegno ESRA 2019), hosted by the Roma Tre University, Rome, 11 July 2019.
2018 “Seeing Better: The Eyesight Motif in King Lear and the Theban Plays”. Presented at the conference Sophocles’ “Oedipus at Colonus“ and Shakespeare’s “King Lear“, Verona, 24 May 2018.
2018 “Battling at the Name of Scanderbeg: The Literary Metamorphoses of George Castriot” Presented at the “International Albanologic Conference Dedicated to George Castriota Skanderbeg”, Tirana, 11 June 2018.
2018 “Buddhist and Vedantic Elements in Kipling”. Lecce, 7 March 2018.
2017 “Shakespeare and Lucretius”. Lecce, 13 March 2017.
2016 “L’Americano di Shakespeare”, Presented at the seminar Shakespeare and Company, Lecce, 23 May 2016.
2009 “Perfecting the Life or the Work”. Presented at the conference Roads Not Taken: 10th International Connotations Symposium, Freudenstadt, 2-6 August 2009.
2009 “La figura di Calibano, Caliban come figura”. Presented at Calibano & C.: Riflessioni e Workshop sul Sincretismo Afroamericano, Lecce, 18-20 May 2009.
2009 “‘That historyless man, George Castriot’: The Scanderbeg Legend in English Literature”. Presented at the conference Scanderbeg vivo: Una riflessione interdisciplinare tra Mito, Storia e Attualità sulla figura di Giorgio Castriota Scanderbeg, Lecce, 12 March 2009.
2006 “Journeymen in Darkness: Joseph Conrad and the Canadian Literary Imagination”. Presented at the conference Emerging Modernisms in Canada and the United States 1914-1941: A Comparative Approach, Saarbruecken, 23 February 2006.
2004 “‘Narcissus in the Underworld: Counterpointing Myths in The Nigger of the “Narcissus”. Presented at the conference Conrad and Italy, Pisa, 16-19 September 2004.
2004 “Unsettling the Wilderness: The Interloping Pioneer in Atwood and Grove”. Presented at the “Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities“, held at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, 29 May-6 June 2004.
2002 “‘A second Eden just emerged from the waters of chaos’: Making Things New in Roughing It in the Bush”. Presented at the conference The Canadian Alternative, Saarbruecken, 26-27 April 2002.
2001 “Straight Lines in a Curved Space: Representations of Order and Disorder in Anglo-Canadian Literature”. Presented at the Centre for Canadian and Anglo-American Cultures, Lehrstuhl für Nordamerikanische Literatur und Kultur, Universität des Saarlands, Saarbruecken, 5 June 2001.
1999 “Name-Calling in Howard O’Hagan’s Tay John”. Presented at the conference Canada: le culture della globalizzazione, Bologna, 8-11 September 1999.
1998 “Through the Consuming Element: The Journey Motif in Susanna Moodie’s Roughing It in the Bush”. Presented at the “seminario internazionale di studi canadesi“, Monopoli, 12-14 June 1998.
1997 “Straight Lines in a Curved Space: Representations of Order and Disorder in Anglo-Canadian Literature”. Presented at the seminar Canada and Canadians: Crossing Cultures, One History (VI European Multidisciplinary Seminar on Canadian Studies), Milazzo, 3-5 October 1997.
1996 “From Jordan to the Otonabee: Margaret Laurence’s River”. Presented at the conference L’Acqua nella cultura canadese: realtà e metafora, Siena, 6-9 November 1996.
1992 “Dark needs no candles now, for dark is light: Images of light and darkness in Shakespeare”. Presented at the conference La Luce e le sue metafore, Rome, 26-28 March 1992.
1990 “What’s Canadian about Canadian Literature?”. Brindisi, 9 March 1990.
1990 “The Vessel of Metaphor: Naming Names in George Bowering’s Burning Water”. Presented at the conference Commonwealth Literary Cultures: New Voices, New Approaches (EACLAS Triennal Conference), Lecce, 3-7 April 1990.
1989 “Setting the Word against the Word: Conrad and Language”. Presented at the conference Joseph Conrad: la narrativa e il mare, Taranto, 11-12 April 1989.
1985 “The Canadian Abroad: Modes of Exile in the Novels of Mordecai Richler”. Presented at the conference Canada ieri e oggi (VI° International Conference of Canadian Studies), Selva di Fasano, 27-31 March 1985.