Rate My Professor Giulia Torello-Hill

Dr. Giulia Torello-Hill is a Senior Lecturer in Italian within the Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education at the University of New England. She earned her Laurea in Lettere magna cum laude from the University of Genoa and a PhD from the University of Nottingham, UK. An internationally renowned expert, her research focuses on the reception of classical Roman drama in the Italian Renaissance. She investigates the interplay between exegesis of ancient texts, iconographic tradition, and performance practices in Renaissance Italy. Her highly interdisciplinary scholarship spans Italian Studies, Renaissance Studies, Classics, Intellectual History, History of the Book, Art History, Visual Culture, and History of Theatre. Torello-Hill has significantly advanced understanding of humanist conceptualization and appropriation of ancient poetics and theatrical practices, particularly how these were influenced by the advent of the printing press.

Throughout her career, she has secured prestigious grants and fellowships, including serving as Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council Discovery Project "Scripts without a stage: Roman Comedy in the Early Italian Renaissance" (DP150100974, 2015-2017, with A.J. Turner and K.O. Chong-Gossard). She held the Hanna Kiel Research Fellowship at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (2015-2016), and the Renaissance Society of America-Kress Foundation Short-Term Fellowship at the Newberry Library in Chicago (2018). Her major publications include co-authoring The Lyon Terence: Its Tradition and Legacy (Brill, 2020) with Andrew J. Turner, which examines the influential 1493 Lyon edition of Terence's plays; co-editing Terence between Late Antiquity and the Age of Printing: Illustration, Commentary and Performance (Brill, 2015); and the forthcoming Jodocus Badius Ascensius' Praenotamenta and Introduction to Terence’s Andria (Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series, 2026). Key articles feature "The Role of the Praenotamenta of Jodocus Badius Ascensius in Shaping Early Modern Dramatic Criticism" (Renaissance Studies, 2024), "Performing Marriage Rituals: The Iconography of North Italian Cassoni 1480-1520" (Cerae, 2022), and "Angelo Poliziano’s De poesi et poetis (BNCF Naz. II.I.99) and the Development of Ancient Dramatic Criticism" (I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance, 2017). She teaches courses in Italian language, literature, and Renaissance intellectual history, iconography, and material culture, and is a member of the Renaissance Society of America, Australasian Society for Classical Studies, and Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies.