Dr Roberta Klimt

Biography

I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow working on John Milton and the Italian questione della lingua. After my BA in English at the University of Oxford (2009), I earned my MA in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from University College London (2011), where I stayed for my PhD in English (2016). I have previously taught at institutions including UCL; the University of Oxford; Notre Dame University in England; and Queen Mary, University of London. Beyond my research on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English and Italian literature, I also work on twentieth-century Jewish-American authors, especially Philip Roth. I am a frequent book reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement and Philip Roth Studies.

Research interests and PhD supervision

• John Milton
• Seventeenth-century literature
• Connections between Italian and English literature
• Reception studies
• Philip Roth

Teaching

I specialise in Milton, but have taught widely across seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English literature, as well as some Italian literature, especially Dante.

Selected publications

Articles

• '"Now this is television! Turn on the rain!" BoJack Horseman and J. D. Salinger.' Post45 (November 2020)
• ‘Il drama di Giovanni Milton”: an eighteenth-century musical adaptation of Milton’s A Maske’. Milton Quarterly, (March 2017): 23–37
• ‘Does Salinger’s biography matter?’ Prospect Magazine online (October 2013)
• ‘Complaining about Portnoy’, Jewish Quarterly (Mar 2013): 14