Stefano Evangelista

Stefano Evangelista is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Oxford University and Fellow of Trinity College. He specialises in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly decadence, translation, and the relations between literature and visual culture. He currently holds an Einstein Visiting Fellowship at the Humboldt University, Berlin, where he is in charge of a project on literary cosmopolitanism at the turn of the twentieth century. Stefano is also part of the research project ‘Chromotope’, which studies the cultural history of colour in the 19th Century, and which is behind the ‘Colour Revolution’ exhibition, currently on show at the Ashmolean Museum.