Roberta Mullini is an Italian scholar of English literature who taught for over forty years before retiring in 2015 from the Department of International Studies, History, Languages and Cultures at the University of Urbino "Carlo Bo." After earning her degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Bologna, she held teaching positions across Italy—including Arezzo, Messina, Pescara, and finally Urbino—specializing in English drama and theatre. Mullini often involved her students in theatrical productions of exam texts, directing self-managed performances that engaged not only students but their families and communities. Her research focuses on pragmatics, discourse analysis, historical linguistics, and early modern drama, from Tudor interludes to Shakespeare, with a current project examining asides in various editions of Shakespeare’s plays. Though she describes herself as increasingly sedentary in retirement, she continues to read, write, and publish, most recently a book on English poetry from World War I, Più del bronzo, aimed at general readers with a literary interest.
