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Dr. Lucia Nigri is a faculty member at the University of Salford's School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies, where she joined in 2013 after completing her PhD in Early Modern English Literature at the University of Rome. She teaches undergraduate courses including "Rebels, Villains, and Discontented Minds" (Level 6) and "From Salvation to Damnation" (Level 5), and actively supervises PhD students. As a member of the English Research Centre, she contributes to the academic community through research, teaching, and supervision.
Dr. Nigri's educational background includes a PhD in Early Modern English Drama completed between 2007-2010 at the University of Rome. Prior to joining Salford, she taught at the University of Manchester, the University of Hull, and Liverpool John Moore University, establishing herself as a specialist in early modern literature and drama.
Her research interests span a wide range of topics within early modern literature, with particular focus on Shakespeare and his contemporaries. She explores themes of intertextuality, identity construction, skepticism, and the representation of marginalized figures in drama. Her work on the malcontent figure has been particularly influential, examining its origins and manifestations across different plays and historical periods. Dr. Nigri is currently developing SENS (Shakespeare's Narrative Sources), a digital open-access archive designed to provide scholars and students with resources related to Shakespeare's narrative influences.
Dr. Nigri's scholarly output demonstrates a consistent engagement with early modern drama through multiple lenses. Her publications reveal a particular interest in how early modern playwrights engaged with questions of identity, authority, and representation. She has made significant contributions to understanding the cultural contexts of Shakespearean and post-Shakespearean drama, especially in relation to religious hypocrisy, theatrical translation practices, and the adaptation of literary works across different historical periods.
Among her notable achievements are publications on the portrayal of Turks in early modern drama, the significance of maternal misrecognition in tragedies, and the relationship between dominant and marginal languages in theatrical translation. Her work on the monumental body in Romeo and Juliet offers innovative perspectives on how Shakespeare represented corporeality and mortality.
Dr. Nigri currently supervises two PhD students: Lauren HOLMES (working on a project from 2023-2027) and previously supervised Dr. Stephen Hornby (2016-2021), whose research focused on "Writing Intermale Sexuality History Plays." Her supervisory interests align with her research expertise in Shakespeare, Early Modern Literature, Drama, and Digital Humanities.
