Giulia Coppi is a PhD student in English Literature in the Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University.
She obtained a BA degree in Classics in 2020 (University of Bologna), then moved on to an MA degree in Literary Studies; in the second year of her MA, she completed an Erasmus stay at Ghent University. This experience inspired her to combine her fascination with authorship with her new-born interest in 18th-century satire, and to return to UGent as a visiting researcher in October 2023. Here, she completed her proposed project “From Spectators to Spettatori: How Eighteenth-Century English Periodicals Shaped Modern Authorship in Pre-Unification Italy, 1727-1861” under the guidance of Professor Andrew Bricker.
In the second semester of 2023/24 she taught a weekly poetry seminar as part of the foundational first-year course English Literature I.
In November 2024 she started a PhD in the English section of the Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University. Her research centres on the Italian reception of the English satirical “Moral weeklies” and their implications for the rise of modern authorship in Italy: her interest lies in the intercultural exchanges between England and Italy, in women’s participation in the periodical press, and in the reciprocal influences between law and literature.
