Beretta, Francesca

Francesca Ginevra Beretta

Plumer Junior Research Fellow in Classics

Academic background

BA Classics and English – St Anne’s, Oxford

PhD Classics and Comparative Literature – Yale

Teaching

Undergraduate: Literae Humaniores (Classics); Classics and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; Classics and English.

Research interests

Francesca works on Greek tragedy (especially through the lens of performance theory) and classical reception. Currently, she is working on a project investigating the reception of Sappho in the Italian literary-cultural landscape between the 1930s and 1970s.

Recent Publications

“Pavese’s Border Multilingualism: The Homeric Nekyia and Beyond.” MLN 138, no. 1 (2023): 90-116.