Giulio Pertile

Dr. Giulio Pertile is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English at the University of St Andrews. His research focuses on Renaissance literature, particularly lyric poetry, affect theory, and pastoral traditions. He has published extensively on authors like Andrew Marvell, John Ashbery, and figures in early modern English and Italian literature. Pertile co-edited the anthology Imagining Andrew Marvell at 400 (2022) and authored Feeling Faint: Affect and Consciousness in the Renaissance (2019).

• PhD supervision: Nilanjana Goswami
• Research interests include: 17th-century lyric, Renaissance poetics, comparative literature, and pastoral forms
• Publications span peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and critical reviews in journals like Modern Philology and Romanticism

His recent work analyzes topics such as cosmic languishing in Spenser and Tasso, sleep imagery in sonnet sequences, and Ashbery's modern pastoral reimaginings. Pertile's research bridges historical analysis with contemporary critical frameworks, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to literary studies.