Isabella INNAMORATI | Curriculum

Isabella Innamorati an associate professor of Drama and Performance History. Since 2007 at 2013 she has been Representative of the Chancellor for the University Theatre and since 2008 at 2009 has been the Chair of the Degree Course in Visual Arts, Music, and Performing Arts. Her studies have primarily focused on Renaissance Acting. She contributed research to the study of Commedia dell'Arte with specific attention to Isabella Andreini. She gave attention to the evolution of the idea of Theatre in the writings by Giacomo Leopardi. In collaboration with Università Statale and theUniversità Cattolica of Milan, she was speaker and organizer of two congresses on two of the most important contemporary italian directors, Luca Ronconi and Massimo Castri. She also edited the congress'proceedings. She has been also speaker in the following editions of the meetings as an author of contributions on the works of Squarzina, Missiroli, Patroni Griffi, Strehler . In 2007 she focused on Massimo Castri work, editing the publication of his directing notes during the staging of Euripedes tragedies. Since 2000, she has been involved in the research in the history of scenic space. In particular, she has studied the treatises of theatrical mechanic devices and lighting techniques in the16th and 18th centuries. In her book, written with Silvana Sinisi, she delineated the evolution of scenic space in western European theatre. Innamorati has been publishing her contributes on various theathrical magazines such as: "Ariel", "Drammaturgia", "Hystrio", "Sipario" and "Théâtre public". She has been teaching doctorate courses in "Literary and Linguistic Studies" at the University of Salerno and then doctorate courses in "Arts and Performing Arts history" at the University of Florence, Pisa and Siena.