Ann Caesar
Crolla Amato Prize 2019 | Literary Studies
Panel Judge
Ann Caesar is Professor Emerita at the University of Warwick.
Ann has published widely in the field of Italian and comparative literary studies since the 18th century with a particular focus on women and the novel since 1861, realism and literary modernisms, and the theatre and narrative of Luigi Pirandello.
Her publications include essays on readerships and the domestic novel in Italy in the period after Unification, conduct writing in the 18th and 19th centuries, the fantastic and the Scapigliatura.
Her co-edited publications include Printed Media in Fin-de-siecle Italy: Publishers, Writers, and Readers (Legenda 2011), and she is co-author of Modern Italian Literature since 1690. A Cultural History (Polity Press, 2007). She is currently preparing a monograph on the rise of the novel in 18th cenuty Venice.
