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Gregory Dowling


Gregory Dowling is Associate Professor of North-American Language and Literature at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His academic research has been focused on British and American literature, with a special interest in the Romantic poets and in 20th- and 21st-century poetry. He is also very interested in Italian culture and history, with a particular focus on Venice, where he has lived since 1981. He has published widely on British and American writers in Italy, from the Romantic age onwards. He is on the steering committee for a new museum devoted to Lord Byron due to open in Ravenna in 2023 and has helped to organize a number of conferences on Byron, in both Venice and Ravenna. He has translated numerous works from Italian and is the author of the sightseeing pages of the Time Out Guide to Venice and he has published six novels, the most recent of which are set in 18th-century Venice.


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