About
Sergio Costola is Corbin Robertson, Jr. Endowed and Dean of the Faculty at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Bologna in Italy and a PhD from the University of California, in Los Angeles. His research interests focus on vision and the ways in which it has been constructed throughout history, in particular during the period that separates the medieval from the early modern period, with brief forays into nineteenth-century African American theatre. He is the author of Commedia dell’Arte Scenarios (Routledge 2021), has collaborated on The Dramaturgy of Commedia dell’Arte with Olly Crick (Routledge 2022), edited with Michael Saenger Shakespeare in Succession: Translation and Time (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023), and is currently working on a monograph on Lucrezia Borgia and her performances at the Este court. He has also published various book chapters and articles in journals including Teatro e Storia, International Journal of Art and Technology, Renaissance Quarterly, Asian Theatre Journal, Mediaevalia, and The Journal of American Drama and Theatre. Publications
Books:
Commedia dell’Arte Scenarios (New York and London: Routledge, 2021)
The Dramaturgy of Commedia dell’Arte. Olly Crick in collaboration with Sergio Costola (New York and London: Routledge, 2022)
Shakespeare in Succession. Translation and Time. Edited by Sergio Costola and Michael Saenger (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:
“The Politics of a Theatrical Event: The 1509 Performance of Ariosto’s I Suppositi.” Mediaevalia 33 (2013): 195-228
“The Limits of Representation: William Wells Brown’s Panoramic Views.” The Journal of American Drama and Theatre 24.2 (Spring 2012): 13-31
“Byron’s Dramatic Theory: Writing for Theatre in an Age of Revolt.” The International Journal of the Arts in Society 6.1 (2011): 67-74.
“Strategies of Subversion: The Power of Live Performance Within the Walls of a Renaissance City.” International Journal of Arts and Technology 2.3 (2009): 187-201
“Storia di un pellegrinaggio. Momenti fra il sacro e il profano nella vita culturale ferrarese ai tempi di Ercole I d’Este.” Teatro e Storia. Annali 18, XVI (1996): 205-240
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters:
“Lucrezia Borgia’s Performances at the Este Court.” In The Borgia Family. Rumor and Representation. Edited by Jennifer Mara DeSilva, 70-85 (London-New York: Routledge, 2019)
“Shylock’s Venice and the Grammar of the Modern City.” Sergio Costola and Michael Saenger. In Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance: Appropriation, Transformation, Opposition. Edited by Michele Marrapodi, 147-162 (Burlington: Ashgate, 2014)
“The Force of Theatre.” In The Movement Culture of the Actor in the 21st Century. 40 Years Stage Movement Department and 60 Years NATFA “Krustyo Sarafiv,” 203-212 (Sofia, 2009)
“La prima rappresentazione dei Suppositi di Ariosto nel 1509.” In Lucrezia Borgia. Storia e Mito. Edited by Paolo Trovato and Michele Bordin, 75-96 (Florence: L. S. Olschki, 2006)
Book Reviews:
“The Spectacle of Clouds, 1439-1650 by Alessandra Buccheri.” Renaissance Quarterly 69.1 (Spring 2016): 233-234
“Paris/Artaud/Bali: Antonin Artaud vede il teatro balinese all’Esposizione Coloniale di Parigi del 1931 by Nicola Savarese.” Asian Theatre Journal (Spring 2003): 253-55
