Alexia Ferracuti

Alexia Ferracuti has a background in English literature and is enrolled in the combined degree with Renaissance Studies. An adamant advocate of an interdisciplinary approach, she is especially interested in Italian Renaissance theatre and its influence on Shakespeare and his contemporaries; etymology and the performativity of language; and the thematization of Echo and Narcissus. She is now in her second year of coursework.

Education

B.A. English; Renaissance Studies; Italian, summa cum laude (University of California, Santa Barbara; 2005)