Donatella Montini (donatella.montini@uniroma1.it) is Full Professor of English Language and Translation at Sapienza University of Rome, where she teaches history of English, stylistics and political linguistics She is Editor in Chief of Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies.She has published extensively on Queen Elizabeth I’s political speeches, early modern English language teaching and translation (with special regard to John Florio). She has recently authored a volume on English contemporary stylistics (La stilistica inglese contemporanea. Teorie e metodi, Carocci 2020) and Guida a Re Lear (2024). She has co-edited a book on Queen Elizabeth I’s language and style for Palgrave (Elizabeth I in Writing. Language, Power and Representation in Early Modern England, Palgrave 2018), and a book on the use of non standard language in fictional texts (The Dialects of British English in Fictional Texts, Routledge 2021). She is writing a book on the Elizabethan linguist John Florio, Contemporary Perspectives on John Florio: Biographia Linguistica, forthcoming for Routledge.
