Sergio Perosa

Sergio Perosa is Professor of English and American Literature Emeritus at Ca' Foscari University, Venice and New York University. An internationally-known essayist and critic, he has edited scholarly and literary journals, and lectured and taught throughout the world. Equally fluent in Italian in English, his expertise extends to major international and Post-Colonial authors of fiction, theater, and poetry. He has edited and translated works by Shakespeare (eight plays, some for stage and...See more

Sergio Perosa is Professor of English and American Literature Emeritus at Ca' Foscari University, Venice and New York University. An internationally-known essayist and critic, he has edited scholarly and literary journals, and lectured and taught throughout the world. Equally fluent in Italian in English, his expertise extends to major international and Post-Colonial authors of fiction, theater, and poetry. He has edited and translated works by Shakespeare (eight plays, some for stage and television), Virginia Woolf, Henry James, Herman Melville, Robert Penn Warren, John Berryman, William Dean Howells, and many others. See less