- From Byron to Byron: Mazeppa and the Tartars in Nineteenth-Century British Theatre Morosetti, Tiziana. 2015. From Byron to Byron: Mazeppa and the Tartars in Nineteenth-Century British Theatre. Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, 42(2), pp. 228-245. ISSN 1748-3727
Tiziana Morosetti
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Tiziana specialises in African Theatre and representations of race, Blackness and the ‘Other’ in British theatre.
Dr Tiziana Morosetti holds a laurea (MA equivalent) in Foreign Languages and Literatures (English and German) from the Università degli Studi Roma Tre, and a Ph.D in Literatures and Cultures in English (African Literatures) from the Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna. She taught at Bologna before moving to the UK in 2012 as a Marie Curie Research Fellow at Oxford. Her research focuses on African Theatre, and representations of race, otherness and Blackness in 19th-century and contemporary British theatre. She is the recipient of a BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant (2024-26) with a project on the founding of the School of Drama at Ibadan, Nigeria, and she sits on the board of the African Theatre Association. Tiziana is also the co-founder and deputy director of the journal Quaderni del ’900, and a member of the Centre for Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths.
Academic qualifications
- PDF Learning, Teaching and Assessing Award, University of Oxford 2017
- PhD in Literatures and Cultures in English (African Literatures), Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna 2006
- Laurea (MA equivalent) in Foreign Languages and Literatures (English and German), Università degli Studi Roma Tre 2001
Teaching and supervision
Research interests
Tiziana’s work focuses on two main areas, African Theatre (especially Nigerian drama and the work of Femi Osofisan), and the representation of race, blackness, and the ‘Other’ in 19th-century and contemporary British theatre and popular performance. On these areas she has published widely, including one monograph on Nigerian theatre in English (2009), four edited collections, and several essays. She is currently co-editing, with Lynette Goddard, the Cambridge History of Black British Theatre and Performance, and is the principal investigator on a BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant (2024-26). Other interests include Postcolonial Italian literature, on which she published in 2005 the first collection of essays on the subject, and intersections between Italian and English literatures. The theatre of W.H. Auden, on which she published a monograph (2009), remains an ongoing passion.
Featured publications
2021:
The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Race
The first comprehensive publication on interactions between racial thinking and the stage in the modern and contemporary world.
2018:
Africa on the Contemporary London Stage
A collection of essays on representations of Africa on the London stage from 1950 to the present, and on the activity of African playwrights and companies in London
2017:
‘Etc. Etc.: Replicating the ‘Exotic’ Body on the Nineteenth-Century British Stage’
An essay on the use and replication of ‘exotic’ images and racial stereotypes across the Georgian and Victorian stage
2016:
Staging the Other in Nineteenth-Century British Drama
A collection of essays on representations of otherness and diversity in Georgian and Victorian drama, and their legacy
2005:
La letteratura postcoloniale italiana
A collection of essays on Postcolonial literature in Italian, as well as on the representation of colonies in Italian writing
Grants and awards
2024:
BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant
The Making of African Theatre: Academics, Playwrights, and Theatre Practitioners at the University of Ibadan, 1952-1970
2012:
European Union FP7 (Marie Curie Actions) REA
Marie Curie Research Fellowship
Publications and research outputs
Article
- ‘Etc. Etc.’: Replicating the ‘Exotic’ Body on the Nineteenth-Century British Stage Morosetti, Tiziana. 2017. ‘Etc. Etc.’: Replicating the ‘Exotic’ Body on the Nineteenth-Century British Stage. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, 24, ISSN 1755-1560
- Introduction. Postcolonial Embodiments in Contemporary Performance Guarracino, Serena and Morosetti, Tiziana. 2017. Introduction. Postcolonial Embodiments in Contemporary Performance. Textus: English Studies in Italy: Stages of Embodiment in Postcolonial Theatre, 2017(2), pp. 7-26. ISSN 1824-3967
- Review: The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma Morosetti, Tiziana. 2015. Review: The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma. The Conversation,
Book
- Introduzione al teatro nigeriano di lingua inglese Morosetti, Tiziana. 2009. Introduzione al teatro nigeriano di lingua inglese. Rome: Edizioni Associate. ISBN 9788826705125
Book Section
- Between Representation and Agency: Black Artists in the UK, 1900-1950 Morosetti, Tiziana. 2024. Between Representation and Agency: Black Artists in the UK, 1900-1950. In: Claire Cochraine; Lynette Goddard; Catherine Hindson and Trish Reid, eds. The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century British Theatre and Performance - Volume One: 1900–1950. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 159-169. ISBN 9780367487898
- Appropriating the Victorian Past in African-American Theatre Morosetti, Tiziana. 2024. Appropriating the Victorian Past in African-American Theatre. In: Kene Igweonu, ed. Routledge Handbook of African Theatre and Performance. London-New York: Routledge, pp. 365-377. ISBN 9781032008400
- Completing the Mosaic: Sara Baartman and the Archive Morosetti, Tiziana. 2022. Completing the Mosaic: Sara Baartman and the Archive. In: Rachel Bryant-Davies and Erin Johnson-Williams, eds. Intersectional Encounters in the Nineteenth-Century Archive: New Essays on Power and Discourse. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 171-186. ISBN 9781350200333
Conference or Workshop Item
- Critical Readings of Femi Osofisan’s ‘Adaptations’ of the Classics Morosetti, Tiziana. 2023. 'Critical Readings of Femi Osofisan’s ‘Adaptations’ of the Classics'. In: Globalizing the Greek Classics: Femi Osofisan’s Re-readings of Ancient Greek Tragedy. Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada 9 November 2023.
- Reimagining the Victorian Past in African and in Black Diasporic Theatre Morosetti, Tiziana. 2022. 'Reimagining the Victorian Past in African and in Black Diasporic Theatre'. In: Centre for Comparative Literature Postcolonial Theatre Series. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 19 May 2022.
- “On Abyssinian Princes and Cannibal Queens”: Linguistic and Visual Representations of “Africanness” on the British Stage, 1850s-60 Morosetti, Tiziana. 2022. '“On Abyssinian Princes and Cannibal Queens”: Linguistic and Visual Representations of “Africanness” on the British Stage, 1850s-60'. In: The London Stage and the Nineteenth-Century World IV. New College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom 6 - 8 April 2022.
Edited Book
- The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Race Morosetti, Tiziana and Okagbue, Osita, eds. 2021. The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Race. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783030439569
- Africa on the Contemporary London Stage Morosetti, Tiziana, ed. 2018. Africa on the Contemporary London Stage. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783319945071
- Staging the Other in Nineteenth-Century British Drama Morosetti, Tiziana, ed. 2016. Staging the Other in Nineteenth-Century British Drama. Oxford: Peter Lang. ISBN 9783034319287
Edited Journal
- Stages of Embodiment in Postcolonial Theatre Guarracino, Serena and Morosetti, Tiziana, eds. 2017. Stages of Embodiment in Postcolonial Theatre, Textus: English Studies in Italy, 2017(2). 1824-3967
Professional Activity
- Quaderni del '900 Morosetti, Tiziana. 2020. Quaderni del '900.
Other
- Staging Blackness and Race in 19th-century British and American Performance Morosetti, Tiziana. 2024. Staging Blackness and Race in 19th-century British and American Performance. AM Digital, Marlborough, Wiltshire.
Conferences and talks
2023:
‘Critical Readings of Femi Osofisan’s ‘Adaptations’ of the Classics’
Globalizing the Greek Classics: Femi Osofisan’s Re-readings of Ancient Greek Tragedy conference
2022:
‘“On Abyssinian Princes and Cannibal Queens”: Linguistic and Visual Representations of “Africanness” on the British Stage, 1850s-60’
London Stage and the Nineteenth-Century World 4th conference
2019:
‘Sara Baartman and the Archive’
The Nineteenth Century Archive as a Discourse of Power
2017:
‘On Sozaboy’s Darkness: Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Biafra War'
Igbo Conference – Legacies of Biafra
2017:
‘Triggering Thriller(s): Eddie Iroh’s 48 Guns for the General’
African Popular Cultures Workshop – Biafra 50 Years on
2015:
‘Exotic Bodies on the 19th-century British Stage: Empire in Miniature’
Reading and Replicating Bodies: Mimicry in Medicine and Culture, 1790-1914
Supervision
Tiziana has long-term experience of supervision of undergraduate and Master’s dissertations, and welcomes enquiries in the fields of British Theatre (especially Black British); African Theatre; representations of race, blackness, and otherness in 19th-century and British theatre and popular performance (freak shows, ‘human zoos’, world fairs, and the circus); German Theatre; Italian Theatre; the theatre of W.H. Auden and the 30s more generally.