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Luisa Signorelli serves as Senior Tutor in the Department of English Language and Literature at University College London, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses across English literature, narrative studies, and early modern literature. Her instructional responsibilities include leading seminars for modules like Critical Commentary and Analysis, Narrative Texts, and Shakespeare's London summer school, with teaching activities scheduled through 2025.
Her research centers on British and Irish literature with specialized focus on Shakespearean studies (particularly Ophelia's representation) and eighteenth-century literary anthologies, while extending into communication and media studies through analysis of popular culture and digital humanities. Current projects examine gendered virtue ethics in historical contexts and Western cultural hegemony in contemporary media narratives.
Signorelli's publications reveal a methodological bridge between traditional literary scholarship and modern cultural critique, consistently interrogating canon formation and recontextualization processes across historical periods. Her work demonstrates particular expertise in tracing the evolution of literary figures through anthologization practices and analyzing video game narratives as cultural artifacts.
Her scholarly recognition includes:
- Postgraduate Bursary from Society for Theatre Research (2025)
- Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2024)
- Funds for Women Graduates (2024)
- Postgraduate Bursary from British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2024)
- Caroline Spurgeon Academic Award (2023)
- Honourary Life Member of Rete Italiana degli Allievi delle Scuole di Studi Superiori Italiane (2022)
Through roles as seminar leader and conference coordinator for events like 'Close Reading in the Digital Age' (2024), Signorelli mentors students across multiple degree programs while advancing interdisciplinary approaches to literary studies. Her teaching portfolio demonstrates sustained engagement with canonical texts from Paradise Lost to The Mill on the Floss, contextualized through contemporary theoretical frameworks.
