SOCCIO Anna Enrichetta

Academic Career:
1991: Degree in English Language and Literature, Faculty or Foreign Languages, Università degli Studi G. d’Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara, Italy, with honours (cum laude).
1996-1999: PhD. in English Studies, Università degli Studi G. d’Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
1997: Visiting fellow at Nene College, University of Northampton (UK)
1998: Visiting fellow at the University of Manchester (UK)
2001-2003: Post-doctoral research grant in English Studies, Università della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy
2003: Winner of a post for Senior Lecturer (Ricercatrice) of English Literature and Language, Università degli Studi G. d’Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara, Italy, (Senior Lecturer from 2004 to 2011).
2011: Winner of the national competition for Associate Professors, Università degli Studi G. d’Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara, Italy (Associate Professor from 2011 to 2018)
2012: Winner of the National Scientific Habilitation (ASN) for the promotion as Full Professor in English Literature.
2018: Full Professor at the Università degli Studi G. d’Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. In this role, she teaches English Literature and English Theatre at the Department of Humanities, Art and Social Science, Università degli Studi G. d’Annunzio di Chieti-Pescara, Italy.
Appointments:
From 2013 to 2020: Responsible for the research quality assurance of the Department of Humanities, Art and Social Science.
From 1st November 2018 to 31st October 2024: Head of the MA in Philology, Linguistics and Literary Traditions.
From January 2020 to June 2023: Rector’s Delegate for Erasmus and International Mobility.
Since November 2020: to the present: Director of the CUSVE (University Centre for Victorian and Edwardian Studies).
From July 2021 to December 2023: Member of the ASN qualification committee.
From 2021 to 2024: member of the School of Humanities
Since 2024: Coordinator of the PhD course in English Studies
From 2008 to 2011: Member of the board of the Ph.D. in English Studies, (UdA)
Form 2013 to 2014: Member of the board of the Ph.D. in Human Sciences (UdA)
From 2015 to 2016: Member of the board of the Ph.D. in “History, Cultural Heritage Culturale and Langauges of the Euro-mediteranean Area” (UdA)
Since 2017: Member of the board of the Ph.D. in Euro-languages and Specialized Terminologies, Università degli Studi of Napoli Parthenope, Italy, later called “Linguistic, Terminological and Intercultural Studies"
Recent Found Research Projects:
2016: The Victorian Novel and the Challenge of Modernity (Progetto di Ricerca d’Ateneo)
2017-2018: Femininity and the Novel in Nineteenth-century England: Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell and the Brontës (Progetto di Ricerca d’Ateneo)
2019-2020: The Victorians and the Royal Household: Texts, Ideas, Visions in Literature and History (Progetto di Ricerca d’Ateneo)
2021-2022: Victorian Culture and Science
Since 2023: WP10 Leader UdA del progetto Ingenium, University Alliance
Since 2023: Local Unit PRIN PI “BEAM: Bodies, Ecology and Moving Identities: Towards a Partnership Paradigm”
Some scientific and organizing committees:
2008: co-convenor of the seminar “The House of Fiction as the House of Life: Representation of the House in Literature and Culture, 1700-1900” in the international Conference ESSE 9th Biennial Conference (Aarhus, Denmark)
2010: co-convenor of the seminar “The (Re)birth of the Author. The Construction and Circulation of Authorship in English Culture at the international Conference ESSE 10th Biennial Conference (Turin, Italy)
2010: member of the scientific and organizing committee of the international Conference “Elizabeth Gaskell and the Art of the Short Story” (Università degli Studi G. d’Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara)
2012: member of the scientific and organizing committee of the VII CUSVE International Conference “Dialogic Dickens: Invention and Transformation” (Università degli Studi G. d’Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara)
2012: member of the scientific and organizing committee of the CUSVE international seminars Charles Dickens’s Genius: The Inimitable and the Imitable (Università degli Studi G. d’Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara)
2013: member of the scientific and organizing committee of the international seminar “If Walls Could Scream: Gothic Houses Across Media” at the 11th Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association “Gothic Technologies/Gothic Techniques” (Guilford, Surrey, UK)
2015: member of the scientific and organizing committee of the VIII CUSVE International Conference “Victorian and Neo-Victorian Aesthetics: Texts, Theories, and the Paths of Imagination”
2016: co-convenor of the international seminar “The Fast and the Furious. The Amazing Textual Adventures of Miniscripts” at the ESSE 13th Biennial Conference, (Galway, Ireland)
2017: Chair at the BAVS Conference 2017 “Victorian Unbound: Connections & Intersections”, (Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, UK)
2018: member of the scientific and organizing committee of the IX CUSVE International Conference “Victorian Metamorphoses. Rewritings, Remediations, Translations, Transcodifications” (Università degli Studi G. d’Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara)
2019: member of the scientific and organizing committee of the X CUSVE International Conference “This particular web: George Eliot and the Others” (Università degli Studi G. d’Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara)
2021: director of the scientific and organizing committee of the XI CUSVE International Conference"The Language of Science in the Long Nineteenth Century"
2022: Convenor ESSE Conference – International Seminar: “Hideous Progeny? Reanimatons of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” (Mainz, Germany, 29/08-02/09/2022)
2022: director of the scientific and organizing committee of the CUSVE-DRC International Conference “Neo-Victorian Decadence” (26-28 October 2022)
2023: scientific board and organizing committee of the 12th International CUSVE Conference “The Victorians and the Ancient World”, UdA (25-26 October 2023)
2024 :scientific board of the Conference:"Transitional/Transnational Identities, Gender Issues, and Cultural Dialogism from the Romantic Age to the Present" UdA (27-28 November 2024)
Academic Journals and Book Series (Board Member):
Editor of the book series “Nuova Armorica”, Solfanelli, Chieti.
Editor of the book series "EREHWON", Edizioni Croce, Roma.
Sub-editor of RSV, Rivista di Studi Vittoriani (Class A journal).
Member of the book series scientific and editorial board of “CrossWays”, Solfanelli, Chieti.
Member of the scientific and editorial board of Merope, Nuova serie.
Member of the scientific and editorial board of Studi medievali e moderni(Class A journal).
Scientific board of the book series “Incarnations. Studi e prospettive sull’Ottocento britannico”, ETS, Pisa
She is referee for international and national journals.
Affiliations:
CUSVE (Centro Universitario di Studi Vittoriani ed Edoardiani) https://www.dilass.unich.it/centro-universitario-di-studi-vittoriani-e-edoardiani-cusve
BAVS (British Association for Victorian Studies) https://bavs.ac.uk
ANDA (http://www.docentianglistica.it/).
AIA (http://www.anglisti.it).
ESSE (https://essenglish.org).
AIDEL (Italian Association for Law and Literature Studies).
The Philip Larkin Society (UK) http://philiplarkin.com
The Gaskell Society (UK) https://gaskellsociety.co.uk
The Dickens Society (USA) https://dickenssociety.org
Italian Oscar Wilde Society
Member of the Partnership Studies Group (PSG), international research centre based at the University of Udine (http://all.uniud.it/?page_id=195).
External member of DRC (Decadence Research Centre) Goldsmiths University, London (https://www.gold.ac.uk/decadence-research-centre/)
Main Fields of Study, Publication and Research:
Her areas of expertise, and the fields in which she has most frequently performed her research activities, are: the Romantic novel, Victorian literature and culture – both mainstream and popular fiction -- late Victorian writing, twentieth-century poetry, Modernism and Postmodernism, English for specific purposes.
She publishes volumes and articles in English in international and national book series and journals. She organizes international conferences and seminars. She promotes events and meetings with writers, artists and experts in the field of English Studies.