Luca Baratta is an Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Siena (Italy).
From May 2020 to October 2022 he worked as an assistant professor of English Language and Translation at the Department of Law of the University of Naples "Parthenope".
He is the author of the monographs «A Marvellous and Strange Event». Racconti di nascite mostruose nell’Inghilterra della prima età moderna (2016), The Age of Monsters. Nascite prodigiose nell’Inghilterra della prima età moderna: storia, testi, immagini (2017), and Senza testa / Headless (2018). He is also the editor of the first critical edition of Thomas D’Urfey’s work The Comical History of Don Quixote – Part I (2019).
His research interests are mainly devoted to the social and cultural history of early modern England.
From 2018 to 2024, he was a member (communication manager) of the Executive Board of the Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies.
Educational Director of the University Language Centre (CLA) – Arezzo campus (since January 2023).
Pricipal Investigator of the PRIN Project “Monsters, Sorcerers, and Witches of Northwestern Europe: The Medieval and Early Modern Construction of Otherness in Literature for Popular Audiences” (since July 2023).