Elisa Cozzi

Elisa Cozzi is a Lecturer in English at Somerville College and a Post-Award Member of The Queen's College, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on Irish-Italian literary networks during the Romantic period, with a particular emphasis on the Shelley circle. She holds a PhD from Oxford, supervised by Fiona Stafford, analyzing manuscript exchanges between Ireland and Italy (1785–1835). Funded by Clarendon and Baillie Gifford scholarships, her work bridges literary history and digital humanities.

• Teaches FHS Paper 4 (1660–1760) and Prelims Paper 4 (1910–Present) at Somerville
• Organized public events like the 2024 Air Ballooning Symposium and Vesuvius22 Conference
• Contributor to digital projects on Shelley's illustrated editions and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Her research interests include manuscript culture, cosmopolitan poetics, and literary coteries. Current projects involve co-authoring studies on Lady Mount Cashell’s unpublished novel and John Taaffe’s translations of Dante.