Francesco Giusti is Career Development Fellow and Tutor in Italian at Christ Church and Lecturer at Worcester College and St John’s College, University of Oxford. After completing his PhD at the Italian Institute of Human Sciences in 2012, he held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of York (2013), the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (2014-2015), and the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry (2016-2018). From 2019 to 2021, he taught comparative literature at Bard College Berlin. His research focuses on the Italian poetic tradition in a transnational context, but extends into other genres and media, as well as theoretical dimensions. At Oxford he devised and now coordinates the interdisciplinary research project Rethinking Lyric Communities, which brings historical poetic practices into dialogue with recent developments in the theory of the lyric and contemporary debates on community formation.