Elisa Bizzotto

Elisa Bizzotto is full professor of English Literature at Iuav University of Venice. Her research focuses on Victorian, late-Victorian and pre-Modernist literature and culture.  She works on Victorian and pre-Modernist literature and her interests are in genre, gender, mythography and intermediality. She specialises in Aestheticism, Decadence, early Modernism and Anglo-Italian cultural intersections.  She is the author of La mano e l’anima. Il ritratto immaginario fin de siècle (2001) and of Walter Pater: Reception, Rwriting. Adaptation (2018), and the co-author of The Germ Origins and Progenies of Pre-Raphaelite Interart Aesthetics (2012). She has co-edited two volumes on Vernon Lee (Dalla stanza accanto. Vernon Lee e Firenze settant’anni dopo, 2006, and Violet del Palmerino. Aspetti della cultura cosmopolita nel salotto di Vernon Lee: 1889-1935, 2014) and the volume Arthur Symons: Poet, Critic, Vagabond (2018). She has edited a volume on Mario Praz (Mario Praz: Voice Centre Stage, 2019). She has been appointed an Officer of the International Pater Society and is a founding member of the Italian Wilde Society. She in the Council of the Doctoral School in History of the Arts (Ca' Foscari). She is part of the Editorial Board of the journals Studies in Walter Pater and Aestheticism (UCLA), Volupté (Goldsmiths College), English Literature (Ca’ Foscari) andJournal of Comparative Studies(Dauvgapils).