Dr Giulio Pertile

Senior Lecturer

Phone: +44 (0)1334 46 2664
Email: gjp4@st-andrews.ac.uk
Office: Room 305
Location: Kennedy Hall

Biography

Giulio Pertile grew up in Edinburgh and Cambridge, MA, and studied at Harvard (AB 2007), Cambridge (MPhil 2008), and Princeton (PhD 2014). He taught at Claremont McKenna College in California before joining the School of English in 2017.

Dr Pertile’s research focuses on early modern English literature in a comparative context. His interests include translation and transnational influence, poetics and literary form, and intellectual history in relation to literature. He is the author of Feeling Faint: Affect and Consciousness in the Renaissance (Northwestern UP, 2019) and Hexameral Poetics: Process and Vitality in Early Modern Literature (Fordham UP, 2026). With Matthew Augustine and Steven Zwicker he is the editor of Imagining Andrew Marvell at 400 (British Academy, 2022). He is currently completing European Poetry in English Translation: 1616-1689, an anthology of seventeenth-century Italian, French, and Spanish poetry in contemporary (i.e. seventeenth-century) English translation due to appear from the MHRA in 2028.

Dr Pertile welcomes proposals from prospective PhD students interested in any aspect of early modern literature, and especially from those working on questions of translation, poetics and poetic form, or literature and intellectual history.

PhD supervision

Anneke Zegers

Selected publications

Hexameral poetics: process and vitality in early modern literature
Pertile, G., 4 Aug 2026, New York, NY: Fordham University Press. 273 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Open access
Apostrophe as play in seventeenth-century lyric
Pertile, G. J., 1 May 2023, In: Modern Philology. 120, 4, p. 444-473 30 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Paul J Hecht. What Rosalind Likes: Pastoral, Gender, and the Founding of English Verse
Pertile, G. J., 10 Apr 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Review of English Studies. 74, 315, p. 561-563
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Stephen Regan, The Sonnet
Pertile, G. J., 1 Apr 2023, In: Romanticism. 29, 1, p. 98-100 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Imagining Andrew Marvell at 400
Augustine, M. C. (Editor), Pertile, G. J. (Editor) & Zwicker, S. (Editor), 28 Jul 2022, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 418 p. (Proceedings of the British Academy; vol. 249)
Research output: Book/Report › Anthology
Introduction
Augustine, M. C., Pertile, G. J. & Zwicker, S. N., 28 Jul 2022, Imagining Andrew Marvell at 400. Augustine, M. C., Pertile, G. J. & Zwicker, S. N. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 1-16 16 p. (Proceedings of the British Academy; vol. 249).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Marvell and the poetics of creation
Pertile, G. J., 28 Jul 2022, Imagining Andrew Marvell at 400 . Augustine, M. C., Pertile, G. J. & Zwicker, S. N. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 166-190 19 p. (Proceedings of the British Academy; vol. 249).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Cosmic languishing in Spenser and Tasso
Pertile, G. J., 2021, In: The Spenser Review. 51, 1
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Thinking Sleep in the Renaissance Sonnet Sequence
Pertile, G. J., 2020, Forming Sleep: Representing Consciousness in the English Renaissance . Simpson-Younger, N. & Simon, M. (eds.). Penn State University Press, p. 21-50
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Feeling faint: affect and consciousness in the Renaissance
Pertile, G. J., Feb 2019, Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press . 175 p. (Rethinking the Early Modern)
Research output: Book/Report › Book

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