Dr Enza De Francisci
- Senior Lecturer (Translation studies)
telephone:
0141 330 5598
email:
Enza.DeFrancisci@glasgow.ac.uk
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533Biography
Before taking up my position as Lecturer in Translation Studies in Glasgow University in 2017, now Senior Lecturer (2022), I was teaching at University College London, where I completed my BA in Modern European Studies, MA in Italian Studies, and PhD entitled 'Women in Verga and Pirandello: From Page to Stage'. During this time, I gained various scholarships to the Scuola Normale di Pisa, the University of Bologna, and the University of Toronto. To prepare for my PhD, I carried out my preliminary research at the National Library in Paris and the Pirandello Institute in Rome, funded by the Italian orgianisation Il circolo.
Research interests
My first book, A 'New' Woman in Verga and Pirandello: From Page to Stage (Legenda 2018), investigates the transposition of short stories to drama in the works of two leading Sicilian authors, Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) and Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), focussing specifically on their representation of women which can be traced to Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House (1879). In uncovering the 'new' female voices, the book draws attention to the early actresses that were instrumental in transforming the women from 'page to stage', namely Eleonora Duse (1858-1924) and Marta Abba (1900-1988).
My co-edited volume with Christopher Stamatakis, Shakespeare, Italy, and Transnational Exchange (Routledge 2017), brings together international scholars from English literature, Modern Languages, Theatre and Performance, Translation Studies, and Comparative Literature, to offer new perspectives on vibrant exchanges between Shakespeare and Italian theatre, literary cultures, and politics, from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century,
Recent co-edited special issues include Six Characters as World Literature in the PSA: The Journal of the Pirandello Society in America (2020-2021) with Michael Subialka and Lisa Sarti, and Translation and Performance Cultures in Translation Studies, 15: 3 (2022), with Cristina Marinetti.
Publications
2027
De Francisci, Enza 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2027)
Sicilian Popular Theatre and the London Stage: Storytellers, Puppeteers, and Actors.
Series: Cultural Histories of Theatre and Performance.
Bloomsbury Publishing.
(Accepted for Publication)
2025
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533 and Marinetti, Cristina (Eds.)
(2025)
Translation in the Performing Arts: Embodiment, Materiality, and Inclusion.
Series: Routledge advances in translation and interpreting studies.
Routledge.
ISBN 9781032371542
(In Press)
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2025)
Traducendo Pirandello in Agrigento: Città della Cultura (2025).
Pirandelliana, Rivista internazionale di studi e documenti,
(Accepted for Publication)
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2025)
Translating Pirandello in Agrigento: City of Culture (2025).
Pirandello Studies, 45,
(Accepted for Publication)
2024
Pirandello, Luigi, Gaziano, Mario, Gramaglia, Giuseppe, De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533 and Bianchin, Ruggero
(2024)
Tararà by Luigi Pirandello.
[Performance]
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533 and Shisheng, Lu (Eds.)
(2024)
Theatre Translation in the Asian World: Exchanges and Adaptations [Guest Editor].
Journal of the Society for Asian Humanities.
55 [Edited Journal]
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533 and Shisheng, Lu
(2024)
Introduction: Theatre Translation in the Asian World.
Journal of the Society for Asian Humanities, 55,
pp. 2-17.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2024)
The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo (1884-1947): The Paladins of France in
America. By Jo Ann Cavallo. London, New York: Anthem Press, 2023. xxiv, 303 pp., 30 b/w
illustrations. Hardcover $110.00, softcover, eBook $27.99.
Puppetry International Research, 1(2),
[Book Review]
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2024)
Verga e Pirandello: senza autore.
In: Klinkert, Thomas, Luglio, Davide, Sichera, Antonio and Subialka, Michael (eds.)
Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore – nuove prospettive critiche. Atti del convegno di Zurigo (4–6 novembre 2021).
Series: Pirandello in un mondo globalizzato (4).
Peter Lang: Oxford, pp. 255-272.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533 and Guariento, Luca
(2024)
Translating Pirandello.
[Website]
2023
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2023)
Review of Enrico IV adapted by Mario Garziano and directed by Mario Sorbello at the Piazzale Caos Agrigento on 28 June 2023.
PSA: Journal of the Pirandello Society of America, 35,
pp. 172-173.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2023)
Interview with Lisa Sarti and Michael Subialka.
Pirandello Studies, 43,
pp. 171-177.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2023)
Producing Pirandello in Agrigento (Kaos).
Pirandello Studies, 43,
pp. 178-190.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2023)
Translating and rewriting Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend at the National Theatre.
Translator, 29(3),
pp. 281-296.
(doi: 10.1080/13556509.2022.2073015)
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2023)
From novella to theatre and opera: translating 'otherness' in Cavalleria rusticana.
In: Ganguly, Avishek and Gotman, Kélina (eds.)
Performance and Translation in a Global Age.
Series: Theatre and performance theory.
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge ; New York, pp. 186-200.
ISBN 9781009296816
(doi: 10.1017/9781009296786)
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2023)
Translating a Curiosity: An Unknown Play by Stefano Pirandello.
Pirandelliana, Rivista internazionale di studi e documenti, 16(2022),
pp. 95-103.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2023)
Lo “stato” delle novelle nel mondo anglofono.
In: Milioto, Stefano (ed.)
Le Novelle di Pirandello "Raccolte" 2.
Editrice Lussografica: Caltanissetta, pp. 61-71.
ISBN 9788882435691
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533 and Hudson, Jolanta ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9387-6874
(2023)
Glasgow-Nankai Translation Studies.
[Website]
Tordzro, Gameli Kodzo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9091-9309 and De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2023)
Meli Creatives: Translating words, music, and ethnicities.
In: De Francisci, Enza and Marinetti, Christina (eds.)
Translation in the Performing Arts.
Series: Routledge advances in translation and interpreting studies.
Routledge.
(Accepted for Publication)
2022
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2022)
Juliet Guzzetta, The Theater of Narration: From the Peripheries of History to the Main Stages of Italy.
Modern Drama, 65(4),
pp. 597-600.
(doi: 10.3138/md-65-4-br3)[Book Review]
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2022)
Performing Ot(h)ello: Verdi, Salvini, and the stage manual.
Cambridge Opera Journal, 34(3),
pp. 293-308.
(doi: 10.1017/S0954586722000258)
Marinetti, Cristina and De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2022)
Introduction: Translation and Performance Cultures.
Translation Studies, 15(3),
pp. 247-257.
(doi: 10.1080/14781700.2022.2126386)
Marinetti, Cristina and De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2022)
Introduction to Translation in the Performing Arts.
In: De Francisci, Enza and Marinetti, Cristina (eds.)
Translation in the Performing Arts.
Series: Routledge advances in translation and interpreting studies.
Routledge.
(In Press)
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2022)
Theatre and Translation, Margherita Laera (2020).
Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, 15(1-2),
pp. 159-162.
(doi: 10.1386/jafp_00075_5)[Book Review]
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533 and Marinetti, C. (Eds.)
(2022)
Translation and Performance Cultures: Agents and Networks [Guest Editor].
Translation Studies.
15(3) [Edited Journal]
2021
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2021)
Aleramo’s Una donna via Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.
Forum Italicum, 55(3),
pp. 741-757.
(doi: 10.1177/00145858211046538)
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2021)
Verga, Duse and Pirandello: Without an Author.
PSA: Journal of the Pirandello Society of America, 33,
pp. 16-32.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2021)
Celebrity Translation in British Theatre: Relevance and Reception, Voice and Visibility, by Robert Stock.
Translation and Literature, 30(2),
pp. 261-265.
(doi: 10.3366/tal.2021.0472)[Book Review]
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533, Sarti, Lisa and Subialka, M. (Eds.)
(2021)
‘Six Characters as World Literature’.
PSA: Journal of the Pirandello Society of America.
33 [Edited Journal]
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2021)
Review of Luigi Pirandello, Stories for the Years, translated from the Italian by Virginia Jewiss (New Haven and London, Yale University Press.
Pirandello Studies, 41,
pp. 178-182.
[Book Review]
2020
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2020)
"Othering" Sicily in Cavalleria rusticana and the Godfather Trilogy: from short story, to stage, to screen.
In: Summerfield, Giovanna (ed.)
Sicily on Screen: Essays on the Representation of the Island and Its Culture.
McFarland: Jefferson, North Carolina, pp. 145-160.
ISBN 9781476676487
2019
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2019)
Duse and Abba: The muses in Verga and Pirandello.
In:
La passione e il metodo: studiare teatro: 48 allievi per Marco De Marinis.
Akropolis Libri: Genova, pp. 192-202.
2018
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2018)
A 'New' Woman in Verga and Pirandello: From Page to Stage.
Series: Italian Perspectives, 40.
Legenda: Cambridge.
ISBN 9781781887837
2017
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2017)
Translating sicilianità in Pirandello’s dialect play Liolà.
In: Brodie, Geraldine and Cole, Emma (eds.)
Adapting Translation for the Stage.
Series: Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies.
Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York.
ISBN 9781138218871
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533 and Stamatakis, Chris (Eds.)
(2017)
Shakespeare, Italy, and Transnational Exchange: Early Modern to Present.
Series: Routledge studies in Shakespeare.
Routledge: New York.
ISBN 9781138668911
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2017)
Giovanni Grasso: the “other” Othello on the London stage.
In: De Francisci, Enza and Stamatakis, Chris (eds.)
Shakespeare, Italy, and Transnational Exchange: Early Modern to Present.
Series: Routledge studies in Shakespeare, 20.
Routledge: New York, pp. 195-207.
ISBN 9781138668911
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2017)
Verga and Duse: before Cenere.
In: Pagani, Maria Pia and Fryer, Paul (eds.)
Eleonora Duse and Cenere (Ashes): Centennial Essays.
McFarland: Jefferson, pp. 41-55.
ISBN 9781476663753
2015
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2015)
Giovanni Verga’s new woman in la lupa: from page to stage.
Modern Language Review, 110(1),
pp. 149-165.
(doi: 10.5699/modelangrevi.110.1.0149)
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2015)
Pirandello’s (futurist?) War of words.
Pirandello Studies, 35,
pp. 27-40.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2015)
Review of Alessio Baldini, Dipingere coi colori adatti: I Malavoglia e il romanzo moderno (Macerata, Quodlibet, 2012).
Modern Language Review, 110(3),
pp. 882-883.
[Book Review]
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2015)
Review of Mattia Pascal: The Man who Lived. A multi-vocal composition created by Maria Gaitanidi and the Raw Material Ensemble, performed on Thursday 23 November 2014 at St Leonard’s Church in Shoreditch.
Pirandello Studies, 35,
pp. 124-126.
2014
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2014)
Eleonora Duse in Cavalleria rusticana: Santuzza on the London stage.
Italian Studies, 69(1),
pp. 95-110.
(doi: 10.1179/0075163413Z.00000000061)
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2014)
Liolà: lost in (its literal) translation?
Pirandello Studies, 34,
pp. 55-65.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2014)
Silvia’s silent voice in Tutto per bene.
Pirandello Studies, 34,
pp. 33-43.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2014)
Verga and Duse: transposing silence in “Il canarino del n. 15” and In portineria. A prelude to symbolism?
Italianist, 34(1),
pp. 73-87.
(doi: 10.1179/0261434013Z.00000000064)
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2014)
Interview with Rory Keenan, lead actor in Liolà at the National Theatre.
Pirandello Studies, 34,
pp. 90-93.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2014)
Review of Liolà in a new version by Tanya Ronder, directed by Richard Eyre, the National Theatre, London, Wednesday 7 August 2013.
Pirandello Studies, 34,
pp. 100-102.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2014)
Review of Luigi Pirandello, Three Plays: A new translation by Anthony Mortimer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
Pirandello Studies, 34,
pp. 96-99.
[Book Review]
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2014)
Review of The Old and the Young and the Ineluctability of Chaos, performed and devised by Joe Canuso, Becka McFadden, Tanya Hossick, Lara Parmiani, Marco Zingaro (LegalAliens ITC), and The Man with the Flower in His Mouth, in a new adaptation by Oneworld, directed by Dimitri Devdariani, performed by Phil Gerrard, Terry Jermyn and Nadia Ostacchini (Tricolore Theatre Company), the Bloomsbury Theatre, London, Saturday 9 November 2013.
Pirandello Studies, 34,
pp. 102-104.
2013
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2013)
A different Leone: from Memmo to Leone.
PSA: Journal of the Pirandello Society of America, 26,
pp. 33-48.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2013)
The female voice: From Quando si è capito il giuoco to Il giuoco delle parti.
Pirandello Studies, 33,
pp. 79-90.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2013)
Interviews with Terry d’Alfonso and with WoH Productions: Manuela Ruggiero, Marco Gambino and Carolina Artegian.
Pirandello Studies, 33,
pp. 126-30.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2013)
Review of Phantoms and the Effects of an Interrupted Dream, by Enzo Lauretta and Terry d’Alfonso, and scenes from Six Characters in Search of an Author and Il berretto a sonagli, by Manuela Ruggiero, the Bloomsbury Theatre, London, Saturday 10 November 2012.
Pirandello Studies, 33,
pp. 141-144.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2013)
Review of Six Characters in Search of an Author, by Anthony Khaseria and Manuela Ruggiero, the Rose Theatre, Bankside, Thursday 8 April 2013.
Pirandello Studies, 33,
pp. 145-147.
2012
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2012)
Mariangela in Verga’s La caccia al lupo: from page to stage.
Between, 2(4),
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2012)
Generations (Duse-Abba), gender (the performing female artist), and genre (from Leonora, addio! to Questa sera si recita a soggetto).
Pirandello Studies, 32,
pp. 58-70.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2012)
Pirandello’s actress: from page to meta-theatrical stage: “Leonora, addio!” to questa sera si recita a soggetto.
anello che non tiene: Journal of Modern Italian Literature, 24(1-2),
pp. 12-37.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2012)
Reshaping Verga’s women in Cavalleria rusticana and La Lupa.
In: Arancibia, Pamela (ed.)
Shaping an Identity: Adapting, Rewriting and Remaking Italian Literature.
Legas: Ottawa, pp. 141-156.
ISBN 9781897493359
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2012)
Review of Pietro Gibellini, Verga, Pirandello e altri siciliani (Lecce, Milella, 2011).
Pirandello Studies, 32,
pp. 87-90.
[Book Review]
2010
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2010)
Review of Six Characters Looking for an Author, adapted by David Harrower, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, 6 February 2010.
Pirandello Studies, 30,
pp. 113-116.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2010)
Review of Umberto Mariani, Living Masks: The Achievement of Pirandello (Toronto, University of Toronto, 2008).
Pirandello Studies, 30,
pp. 103-106.
[Book Review]
2009
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2009)
Review of Henry IV by UCLU Drama Society, Bloomsbury Theatre, London, Friday 6 March 2009.
Pirandello Studies, 29,
pp. 167-170.
2008
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2008)
Pirandello’s women: from page to stage.
Pirandello Studies, 28,
pp. 89-99.
2006
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2006)
Review of As You Desire Me, Camden’s People Theatre, London, 9 September 2005.
Pirandello Studies, 26,
pp. 72-74.
Articles
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2025)
Traducendo Pirandello in Agrigento: Città della Cultura (2025).
Pirandelliana, Rivista internazionale di studi e documenti,
(Accepted for Publication)
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2025)
Translating Pirandello in Agrigento: City of Culture (2025).
Pirandello Studies, 45,
(Accepted for Publication)
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533 and Shisheng, Lu
(2024)
Introduction: Theatre Translation in the Asian World.
Journal of the Society for Asian Humanities, 55,
pp. 2-17.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2023)
Review of Enrico IV adapted by Mario Garziano and directed by Mario Sorbello at the Piazzale Caos Agrigento on 28 June 2023.
PSA: Journal of the Pirandello Society of America, 35,
pp. 172-173.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2023)
Interview with Lisa Sarti and Michael Subialka.
Pirandello Studies, 43,
pp. 171-177.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2023)
Producing Pirandello in Agrigento (Kaos).
Pirandello Studies, 43,
pp. 178-190.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2023)
Translating and rewriting Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend at the National Theatre.
Translator, 29(3),
pp. 281-296.
(doi: 10.1080/13556509.2022.2073015)
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2023)
Translating a Curiosity: An Unknown Play by Stefano Pirandello.
Pirandelliana, Rivista internazionale di studi e documenti, 16(2022),
pp. 95-103.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2022)
Performing Ot(h)ello: Verdi, Salvini, and the stage manual.
Cambridge Opera Journal, 34(3),
pp. 293-308.
(doi: 10.1017/S0954586722000258)
Marinetti, Cristina and De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2022)
Introduction: Translation and Performance Cultures.
Translation Studies, 15(3),
pp. 247-257.
(doi: 10.1080/14781700.2022.2126386)
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2021)
Aleramo’s Una donna via Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.
Forum Italicum, 55(3),
pp. 741-757.
(doi: 10.1177/00145858211046538)
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2021)
Verga, Duse and Pirandello: Without an Author.
PSA: Journal of the Pirandello Society of America, 33,
pp. 16-32.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2015)
Giovanni Verga’s new woman in la lupa: from page to stage.
Modern Language Review, 110(1),
pp. 149-165.
(doi: 10.5699/modelangrevi.110.1.0149)
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2015)
Pirandello’s (futurist?) War of words.
Pirandello Studies, 35,
pp. 27-40.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2015)
Review of Mattia Pascal: The Man who Lived. A multi-vocal composition created by Maria Gaitanidi and the Raw Material Ensemble, performed on Thursday 23 November 2014 at St Leonard’s Church in Shoreditch.
Pirandello Studies, 35,
pp. 124-126.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2014)
Eleonora Duse in Cavalleria rusticana: Santuzza on the London stage.
Italian Studies, 69(1),
pp. 95-110.
(doi: 10.1179/0075163413Z.00000000061)
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2014)
Liolà: lost in (its literal) translation?
Pirandello Studies, 34,
pp. 55-65.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2014)
Silvia’s silent voice in Tutto per bene.
Pirandello Studies, 34,
pp. 33-43.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2014)
Verga and Duse: transposing silence in “Il canarino del n. 15” and In portineria. A prelude to symbolism?
Italianist, 34(1),
pp. 73-87.
(doi: 10.1179/0261434013Z.00000000064)
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2014)
Interview with Rory Keenan, lead actor in Liolà at the National Theatre.
Pirandello Studies, 34,
pp. 90-93.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2014)
Review of Liolà in a new version by Tanya Ronder, directed by Richard Eyre, the National Theatre, London, Wednesday 7 August 2013.
Pirandello Studies, 34,
pp. 100-102.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2014)
Review of The Old and the Young and the Ineluctability of Chaos, performed and devised by Joe Canuso, Becka McFadden, Tanya Hossick, Lara Parmiani, Marco Zingaro (LegalAliens ITC), and The Man with the Flower in His Mouth, in a new adaptation by Oneworld, directed by Dimitri Devdariani, performed by Phil Gerrard, Terry Jermyn and Nadia Ostacchini (Tricolore Theatre Company), the Bloomsbury Theatre, London, Saturday 9 November 2013.
Pirandello Studies, 34,
pp. 102-104.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2013)
A different Leone: from Memmo to Leone.
PSA: Journal of the Pirandello Society of America, 26,
pp. 33-48.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2013)
The female voice: From Quando si è capito il giuoco to Il giuoco delle parti.
Pirandello Studies, 33,
pp. 79-90.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2013)
Interviews with Terry d’Alfonso and with WoH Productions: Manuela Ruggiero, Marco Gambino and Carolina Artegian.
Pirandello Studies, 33,
pp. 126-30.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2013)
Review of Phantoms and the Effects of an Interrupted Dream, by Enzo Lauretta and Terry d’Alfonso, and scenes from Six Characters in Search of an Author and Il berretto a sonagli, by Manuela Ruggiero, the Bloomsbury Theatre, London, Saturday 10 November 2012.
Pirandello Studies, 33,
pp. 141-144.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2013)
Review of Six Characters in Search of an Author, by Anthony Khaseria and Manuela Ruggiero, the Rose Theatre, Bankside, Thursday 8 April 2013.
Pirandello Studies, 33,
pp. 145-147.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2012)
Mariangela in Verga’s La caccia al lupo: from page to stage.
Between, 2(4),
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2012)
Generations (Duse-Abba), gender (the performing female artist), and genre (from Leonora, addio! to Questa sera si recita a soggetto).
Pirandello Studies, 32,
pp. 58-70.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2012)
Pirandello’s actress: from page to meta-theatrical stage: “Leonora, addio!” to questa sera si recita a soggetto.
anello che non tiene: Journal of Modern Italian Literature, 24(1-2),
pp. 12-37.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2010)
Review of Six Characters Looking for an Author, adapted by David Harrower, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, 6 February 2010.
Pirandello Studies, 30,
pp. 113-116.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2009)
Review of Henry IV by UCLU Drama Society, Bloomsbury Theatre, London, Friday 6 March 2009.
Pirandello Studies, 29,
pp. 167-170.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2008)
Pirandello’s women: from page to stage.
Pirandello Studies, 28,
pp. 89-99.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2006)
Review of As You Desire Me, Camden’s People Theatre, London, 9 September 2005.
Pirandello Studies, 26,
pp. 72-74.
Books
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2027)
Sicilian Popular Theatre and the London Stage: Storytellers, Puppeteers, and Actors.
Series: Cultural Histories of Theatre and Performance.
Bloomsbury Publishing.
(Accepted for Publication)
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2018)
A 'New' Woman in Verga and Pirandello: From Page to Stage.
Series: Italian Perspectives, 40.
Legenda: Cambridge.
ISBN 9781781887837
Book Sections
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2024)
Verga e Pirandello: senza autore.
In: Klinkert, Thomas, Luglio, Davide, Sichera, Antonio and Subialka, Michael (eds.)
Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore – nuove prospettive critiche. Atti del convegno di Zurigo (4–6 novembre 2021).
Series: Pirandello in un mondo globalizzato (4).
Peter Lang: Oxford, pp. 255-272.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2023)
From novella to theatre and opera: translating 'otherness' in Cavalleria rusticana.
In: Ganguly, Avishek and Gotman, Kélina (eds.)
Performance and Translation in a Global Age.
Series: Theatre and performance theory.
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge ; New York, pp. 186-200.
ISBN 9781009296816
(doi: 10.1017/9781009296786)
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2023)
Lo “stato” delle novelle nel mondo anglofono.
In: Milioto, Stefano (ed.)
Le Novelle di Pirandello "Raccolte" 2.
Editrice Lussografica: Caltanissetta, pp. 61-71.
ISBN 9788882435691
Tordzro, Gameli Kodzo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9091-9309 and De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2023)
Meli Creatives: Translating words, music, and ethnicities.
In: De Francisci, Enza and Marinetti, Christina (eds.)
Translation in the Performing Arts.
Series: Routledge advances in translation and interpreting studies.
Routledge.
(Accepted for Publication)
Marinetti, Cristina and De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2022)
Introduction to Translation in the Performing Arts.
In: De Francisci, Enza and Marinetti, Cristina (eds.)
Translation in the Performing Arts.
Series: Routledge advances in translation and interpreting studies.
Routledge.
(In Press)
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2020)
"Othering" Sicily in Cavalleria rusticana and the Godfather Trilogy: from short story, to stage, to screen.
In: Summerfield, Giovanna (ed.)
Sicily on Screen: Essays on the Representation of the Island and Its Culture.
McFarland: Jefferson, North Carolina, pp. 145-160.
ISBN 9781476676487
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2019)
Duse and Abba: The muses in Verga and Pirandello.
In:
La passione e il metodo: studiare teatro: 48 allievi per Marco De Marinis.
Akropolis Libri: Genova, pp. 192-202.
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2017)
Translating sicilianità in Pirandello’s dialect play Liolà.
In: Brodie, Geraldine and Cole, Emma (eds.)
Adapting Translation for the Stage.
Series: Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies.
Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York.
ISBN 9781138218871
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2017)
Giovanni Grasso: the “other” Othello on the London stage.
In: De Francisci, Enza and Stamatakis, Chris (eds.)
Shakespeare, Italy, and Transnational Exchange: Early Modern to Present.
Series: Routledge studies in Shakespeare, 20.
Routledge: New York, pp. 195-207.
ISBN 9781138668911
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2017)
Verga and Duse: before Cenere.
In: Pagani, Maria Pia and Fryer, Paul (eds.)
Eleonora Duse and Cenere (Ashes): Centennial Essays.
McFarland: Jefferson, pp. 41-55.
ISBN 9781476663753
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2012)
Reshaping Verga’s women in Cavalleria rusticana and La Lupa.
In: Arancibia, Pamela (ed.)
Shaping an Identity: Adapting, Rewriting and Remaking Italian Literature.
Legas: Ottawa, pp. 141-156.
ISBN 9781897493359
Book Reviews
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2024)
The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo (1884-1947): The Paladins of France in
America. By Jo Ann Cavallo. London, New York: Anthem Press, 2023. xxiv, 303 pp., 30 b/w
illustrations. Hardcover $110.00, softcover, eBook $27.99.
Puppetry International Research, 1(2),
[Book Review]
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2022)
Juliet Guzzetta, The Theater of Narration: From the Peripheries of History to the Main Stages of Italy.
Modern Drama, 65(4),
pp. 597-600.
(doi: 10.3138/md-65-4-br3)[Book Review]
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2022)
Theatre and Translation, Margherita Laera (2020).
Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, 15(1-2),
pp. 159-162.
(doi: 10.1386/jafp_00075_5)[Book Review]
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2021)
Celebrity Translation in British Theatre: Relevance and Reception, Voice and Visibility, by Robert Stock.
Translation and Literature, 30(2),
pp. 261-265.
(doi: 10.3366/tal.2021.0472)[Book Review]
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2021)
Review of Luigi Pirandello, Stories for the Years, translated from the Italian by Virginia Jewiss (New Haven and London, Yale University Press.
Pirandello Studies, 41,
pp. 178-182.
[Book Review]
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2015)
Review of Alessio Baldini, Dipingere coi colori adatti: I Malavoglia e il romanzo moderno (Macerata, Quodlibet, 2012).
Modern Language Review, 110(3),
pp. 882-883.
[Book Review]
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2014)
Review of Luigi Pirandello, Three Plays: A new translation by Anthony Mortimer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
Pirandello Studies, 34,
pp. 96-99.
[Book Review]
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2012)
Review of Pietro Gibellini, Verga, Pirandello e altri siciliani (Lecce, Milella, 2011).
Pirandello Studies, 32,
pp. 87-90.
[Book Review]
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533
(2010)
Review of Umberto Mariani, Living Masks: The Achievement of Pirandello (Toronto, University of Toronto, 2008).
Pirandello Studies, 30,
pp. 103-106.
[Book Review]
Edited Books
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533 and Marinetti, Cristina (Eds.)
(2025)
Translation in the Performing Arts: Embodiment, Materiality, and Inclusion.
Series: Routledge advances in translation and interpreting studies.
Routledge.
ISBN 9781032371542
(In Press)
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533 and Stamatakis, Chris (Eds.)
(2017)
Shakespeare, Italy, and Transnational Exchange: Early Modern to Present.
Series: Routledge studies in Shakespeare.
Routledge: New York.
ISBN 9781138668911
Edited Journals
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533 and Shisheng, Lu (Eds.)
(2024)
Theatre Translation in the Asian World: Exchanges and Adaptations [Guest Editor].
Journal of the Society for Asian Humanities.
55 [Edited Journal]
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533 and Marinetti, C. (Eds.)
(2022)
Translation and Performance Cultures: Agents and Networks [Guest Editor].
Translation Studies.
15(3) [Edited Journal]
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533, Sarti, Lisa and Subialka, M. (Eds.)
(2021)
‘Six Characters as World Literature’.
PSA: Journal of the Pirandello Society of America.
33 [Edited Journal]
Performance
Pirandello, Luigi, Gaziano, Mario, Gramaglia, Giuseppe, De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533 and Bianchin, Ruggero
(2024)
Tararà by Luigi Pirandello.
[Performance]
Website
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533 and Guariento, Luca
(2024)
Translating Pirandello.
[Website]
De Francisci, Enza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0533 and Hudson, Jolanta ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9387-6874
(2023)
Glasgow-Nankai Translation Studies.
[Website]
Grants
2023
AHRC Impact Acceleration Account Mobility Fund (PI): Translating Pirandello in Agrigento: City of Culture in 2025.
Chancellor's Fund to run a PhD in-sessional support programme with Dr Micky Ross (EAS).
2022
Stirling Maxwell Centre to fund 'Performing Sicily' at the Hidden Lane Gallery in Glasgow (£500) with the support from the Society for Italian Studies (£140), the Italian Cultural Institute in Edinburgh, and Comites Scozia e Irlanda del Nord.
2019
University of Glasgow Strategic Research Allocation to participate in EU-funded project, 'Fabulamundi: Playwrighting Europe Beyond Borders?' (£250).
University of Glasgow cross-college sponsorship to run a one-day conference, 'Meeting Points: Migration and Displacement Across the Arts and Humanities' (£1,000).
2018
Society for Italian Studies to sponsor the one-day conference 'Pirandello and Translation' at Glasgow University (£200). Further sponsorship sought from the Italian Cultural Institute in Edinburgh (£150).
Mazzini Gabribaldi Charitable Foundation to fund a 'Visualising Shakeapeare' event at Glasgow Univetsity (£500). Further sponsorship sought from the Society for Italian Studies (£500) and the Italian Cultural Institute (£400).
2015-2016
AHRC-funded Collaborative Learning in the Arts, Society, and the Humanities Fellowship with University College London and King's College London to run a Shakespeare and Italy course at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (£2,500).
Supervision
Any aspect of translation from the early modern period to the present
- Liu, Chunwei
Male Homosocial Gaze and Masculinity in Superhero Narratives - Yang, Hanru
Unnatural Narrative in Translating Novels and Short Stories - Zhang, Ziyu
Silence in Radio Drama and The Case Studies of Harold Pinter
Teaching
Classes I teach or contribute to on the Glasgow Translation Studies programme as well as on the Glasgow-Nankai Joint Graduate School MSc:
- Translation Studies in Theory and Practice
- Approaches to Translation and the Professional Practice
- Literary Translation (Convenor)
- Marketing and Translation Across Media
- Subtitling Film and TV
- Dissertation Workshops
I also contribute to teaching on the Comparative Literature MLitt and Italian Advanced Translation and Language Studies MSc.
Additional information
University Role
2023 - Deputy Dean for Transnational Education
School Roles
2017- Programme Director, MSc in Translation Studies Glasgow-Nankai Joint School programme
2022- School of Modern Languages and Cultures Internationalisation Officer
Visiting Scholarships
2018- University of Palermo
2018- University of Catania
External Examining
2021- External Evaluator at Malta Further and Higher Education Authority
2020: MPhil examiner at the University of Western Australia
Editorial
2014- Theatre Reviews Editor in Pirandello Studies
I have been a peer-reviewer for the following journals: Translation Studies Contemporary Theatre Review, The Forum for Modern Languages, The Italianist, Translation and Interpreting Studies, Modern Language Review, Pirandello Studies, PSA: The Journal of the Pirandello Society of America, and European Judaism. I have also been a peer reviewer for the following publishers: Bloomsbury Publishing, Peter Lang, and Oxford University Press.
Invited Talks/ Keynotes
2022: Mediterranean Centre in Ortigia (Siracusa)
2020: University of Sydney (Australia)
2020: National Theatre (London)
2019: Nankai University in the Italian Department (Tianjin)
2019: Italian Cultural Institute (Beijing)
2019: Fabulamundi (Milan)
2018: Fondazione Verga (Catania)
2017: Brown University (US)
BBC Radio Programmes
2022: World Service, The Forum: 'Eleonora Duse: The First Great Modern Actress'
2021: World Service, The Forum: 'Luigi Pirandello: Italian Dramatist Who Brought Chaos to the Stage'.
Further Qualifications
2021: Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice with Merit (PGCap), Glasgow University, confers Recognising Excellence in Teaching Fellowship (RET).
Translation Award
Stefano Pirandello, All You Need is a Father, trans with Susan Bassnett (Imola, Cue Press: 2022). Winner of the National Prize for Translation awarded by Italy's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
