donatella.montini@uniroma1.it

Donatella Montini is Full Professor of English Language and Translation at Sapienza Università di Roma, where she teaches history of English and stylistics. She is Editor in Chief of online Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies. She has published extensively on Queen Elizabeth I’s political speeches, early modern English language teaching and translation. She has co-edited a book on Elizabeth I in Writing. Language, Power and Representation in Early Modern England (2018), and a book on The Dialects of British English in Fictional Texts (2021). She is currently writing Contemporary Perspectives on John Florio: Biographia Linguistica, forthcoming from Routledge.

iolanda.plescia@uniroma1.it

Iolanda Plescia teaches history of the English language, stylistics and literary/drama translation at Sapienza University of Rome. She has published work on Shakespeare’s language, early modern translation, multilingualism, early modern scientific language, the circulation of Galilei’s work in English.  She has produced the first Italian edition of Henry VIII’s Letters to Anne Boleyn (2013) as well as new annotated translations of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida (2015), The Taming of the Shrew (2018), and Sir Thomas More (2022), and is currently editing the play Henry VIII. She is the President of IASEMS – Italian Association of Shakespeare and Early Modern Studies.

francesca.terrenato@uniroma1.it 

Francesca Terrenato is Associate Professor of Dutch Language and Literature at Sapienza, University of Rome. Her research interests include early modern cultural transfer and translation, gender issues in early modern and contemporary literary works, the Post-memory of the Holocaust, and Afrikaans literature (especially poetry). She has published books and articles on the relationship between literature and visual arts, on Dutch love emblems, on the reception of Machiavelli’s writings in the Netherlands, and on Dutch and Afrikaans women poets and authors.

laetitia.sansonetti@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr 

Laetitia Sansonetti is Professor of English Translation Studies at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. Her research bears on the reception of classical and continental texts in England, language learning, multilingualism and translation. Her research project on translation and polyglossia in early modern England (https://tape1617.hypotheses.org/) was funded by a five-year grant from Institut Universitaire de France (2018-2023). She is co-general editor of the “Polyglot Encounters in Early Modern Britain” series with Brepols Publishers. With Rémi Vuillemin she has coedited a volume on Language Commonality and Literary Communities in Early Modern England (Brepols, 2022).

roman.sosnowski@uj.edu.pl 

Roman Sosnowski is a professor of Linguistics at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, specialized in Italian linguistics, Italian philology, and Italian Renaissance studies. His main research interests include Italian special languages ​​(diachronic perspective), Italian grammars of the 16th century, Italian manuscripts in the Polish libraries as well as the Italian-Polish contacts in the Early Modern period. He has led several Polish and European research projects and published a number of books and articles on the aforementioned topics. In 2023 he was appointed ‘Socio corrispondente estero’ [foreign associate member] of the Accademia della Crusca.

paolo.detroia@uniroma1.it 

Paolo De Troia holds a Ph.D. in East Asian Cultures and Civilization and is Professore Associato at Sapienza Università di Roma. His research focuses on Chinese language and literature (Contemporary Chinese media language; Ming and Qing fiction; History of Sino-European cultural and scientific contacts, and History of Chinese Lexicon). He has translated Giulio Aleni’s 1623 Atlas (Zhifang waiji) from Chinese into Italian (published 2009). His current research bears on the “Treatise on Falcons” by Ludovico Buglio, one of the books which first introduced Western zoology into China. 

lorenzo.nes@libero.it

Lorenzo Nespoli was awarded his PhD at Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice and Leiden University in September 2023, doing research on the study of Dutch language in Edo Japan (17th-19th centuries). He is trained in Japanology and Dutch studies and his research mostly focusses on the Early Modern period. He is currently teaching Japanese at the University of Turin, and will teach Dutch at the University of Padua, starting 2024.

simone.celani@uniroma1.it 

Simone Celani is Full Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Language and Translation at Sapienza Università di Roma. His main areas of research are related to linguistic historiography, translation, literary linguistics, philology of contemporary works (in particular Fernando Pessoa), Lusophone Africa. He has more than a hundred publications to his credit; among the most recent are O espólio Pessoa (INCM, Lisbon, 2020) and, in collaboration, Culture di lingua portoghese (Hoepli, Milan, 2023).