Dr. Claudia Boscolo

Claudia Boscolo is a scholar of Romance philology and the environmental humanities. She holds a PhD in Italian studies from Royal Holloway, University of London (2005), and a degree in letters from the University of Trento. She has taught Italian literature and language at University College Dublin and Royal Holloway, University of London, and is currently an honorary fellow in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Film at the University of Liverpool, alongside her position as a teacher of Italian literature at secondary level in Trento.
Her early research centered on the Franco-Italian chivalric epic, resulting in the monograph L'Entrée d'Espagne: Context and Authorship at the Origins of the Italian Chivalric Epic. She has also worked extensively on contemporary Italian fiction, co-editing Scritture di resistenza. Her current work brings medieval and contemporary literature into dialogue with ecocriticism, focusing on the desert and the forest as literary spaces in the age of the ecological crisis.

RCC Project: The Desert-Forest in Literary Imaginary: From Sacred Threshold to Hyperobject (PDF, 117 KB)

Selected Publications:

• “Il Privilegio di Santo Stefano a Carisolo: Una testimonianza della presenza di Carlo Magno nelle Alpi orientali.” In Actes du XXIIIe Congrès International de la Société Rencesvals, Université de Neuchâtel, 14–18 juillet 2025. Alphil, forthcoming.
• “Ecosistemi nel romanzo contemporaneo: La foresta come centro di agency.” In Verdi brillanti: Riposizionare piante, giardini e foreste nella letteratura e nel cinema dell’Antropocene, edited by Marina Spunta and Claudia Dellacasa. Cesati, 2026.
• La tempesta e l’orso. Industria e Letteratura, 2024.
• “Per una narrazione critica delle rappresentazioni culturali nell’era della crisi ecologica.” Narrativa 46 (2024): 147–57. https://doi.org/10.4000/12x3o.
• with Leslie Zarker Morgan. “The First Franco-Italian Vernacular Textual Witnesses of the Charlemagne Epic Tradition in the Italian Peninsula: Hybrid Forms.” In Charlemagne in Italy, edited by Jane E. Everson. Brewer, 2023.
• L’Entrée d’Espagne: Context and Authorship at the Origins of the Italian Chivalric Epic. Vol. 34. Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, 2017.