Anna Maria Cimitile is a Professor of English literature at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. Her fields of research range from Shakespeare, early modern English literature and culture to contemporary anglophone literature, cinema and the visual arts. Interested in the history of ideas, material culture and microhistory, more recently she has reflected on the possibility of researching early modern book history with a microhistorical approach. Her work has appeared in Anglistica AION, Cahiers Élisabéthains, EJES, RANAM, XVII-XVIII, and in collections of essays published by Bloomsbury (Arden Shakespeare) and Routledge. She is the Regional Editor for the MIT digital archive Global Shakespeares and is currently a member of the Board of ESRA-European Shakespeare Research Association.