Dr Giulia Torello-Hill

Biography

Giulia Torello-Hill is an internationally renowned expert in the reception of classical Roman drama in the Italian Renaissance. Her research explores the interplay between exegesis of ancient texts, iconographic tradition and performance practices in Renaissance Italy. Her work is highly interdisciplinary and intersects Italian Studies, Renaissance Studies, Classics, Intellectual History, History of the Book, Art History, Visual Culture and History of Theatre. She has made important advances in the knowledge of humanist conceptualisation and the appropriation of ancient poetics and theatrical practices, and how these processes were accelerated though the printing press.

Giulia is the recipient of highly prestigious collaborative grants and international fellowships. She was a Chief Investigator of the ARC Discovery Project Scripts without a stage: Roman Comedy in the Early Italian Renaissance (DP150100974), which challenged the opinion that Terence’s plays were not understood as theatre and investigated the dynamics of change in this key period in relation to ideas of theatre. In 2015-16 she was awarded a Hanna Kiel Research Fellowship at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, and in 2018 a residential Renaissance Society of America-Kress Foundation Short-Term Fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago. These fellowships are the most coveted in field of Renaissance Studies

Qualifications

Laurea in Lettere (magna cum laude, Genoa), PhD (Nottingham, UK)

Awards

2018 Renaissance Society of America-Kress Foundation Short-Term Newberry Fellow, The Newberry Library, Chicago.

2015-2017 Chief Investigator, ARC Discovery Project grant Scripts without a stage: Reception of Roman comedy in the early Italian Renaissance (DP150100974) with A.J. Turner and K.O. Chong-Gossard, administered through the University of Melbourne.

2015-2016 Hanna Kiel Fellow, Villa I Tatti The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence.

Teaching Areas

• Italian Language
• Italian Literature
• Italian Renaissance Intellectual History, Iconography and Material Culture

Primary Research Area/s

Research Interests

Giulia Torello-Hill’s scholarly work investigates the humanist understanding and conceptualisation of ancient drama that led to the revival of classical plays in Renaissance Italy.  Her research explores the interplay between exegesis of ancient texts, iconographic tradition and performance practice in Renaissance Italy. Her current book project, funded through an ARC discovery project, is an interdisciplinary study of the illustrated printed edition of the plays of Terence published in Lyon in 1493 (co-authored with Andrew J. Turner). Her interests extend to any aspect of the reception of the classical world in early modern and contemporary Italy, Renaissance intellectual history, iconography and history of the book and she welcomes enquiries from postgraduate students wishing to work on any of these areas.

Grants and Fellowships

2018 Renaissance Society of America-Kress Foundation Short-Term Newberry Fellow, The Newberry Library, Chicago.

2015-2017 Chief Investigator, ARC Discovery Project grant Scripts without a stage: Reception of Roman comedy in the early Italian Renaissance(DP150100974) with A.J. Turner and K.O. Chong-Gossard, administered through the University of Melbourne.

2015-2016 Hanna Kiel Fellow, Villa I Tatti The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence.

Publications

List of Publications

Memberships

Renaissance Society of America (RSA)

Australasian Society for Classical Studies (ASCS)

Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (ANZAMEMS)

External Profiles

• Google Scholar Profile
• Academia Profile
• ResearchGate Profile
• ORCid Profile