Carlo M . Bajetta

Carlo M. Bajetta, PhD, FEA, is Professor of English Literature and Head of the Degree Course in Modern Languages at Università della Valle d'Aosta, Italy. He served as President of the Italian Association for the Study of English (AIA) and board member of the European Association for the study of English (ESSE) from 2019 to 2023. He is the general Editor, together with Jonathan Gibson, of the new Oxford University Press edition of Sir Walter Ralegh’s works. 
He has contributed to The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004-), the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, the Oxford Online Bibliographies, and has been a reviewer for the scholarly journal Notes and Queries since 2000. He was a member of the Advisory Board of EJES: The European Journal of English Studies (Routledge) until 2019. In 2011 he was nominated as a Corresponding Fellow of The English Association, was elected Louis L. Martz Lecturer by the Queen Elizabeth I Society (USA) in 2016, and was appointed as a short-term residential fellow at the University of Warwick in 2018.
He is the author of about 90 publications, including Sir Walter Ralegh (1998); Whole volumes in folio (2000); Some notes on Printing and Publishing in Renaissance Venice (2000), and, with Luisa Camaiora, Shakespearean Readings: Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley (2004). He has edited R.B. McKerrow’s 1928 Sandars Lectures (Studies in Bibliography, 2000), Wordsworth’s, Shelley’s and Reynold’s 1819 Peter Bell poems (2005), C.S. Lewis’s Letters to Children (2009, Italian ed.) and Thomas More's English Poems (2010, bilingual ed.). Together with G. Coatalen and J. Gibson, he co-edited Elizabeth I's Foreign Correspondence: Letters, Rhetoric, and Politics (2014).
His edition of the Italian letters of Elizabeth I, which was sponsored by means of an Italian Ministry of Education grant and a visiting fellowship from the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, was published by Palgrave in 2017. The book was awarded the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions Seal of Approval in September 2017 and the Associazione Italiana di Anglistica / Italian Association for the Study of English book prize in 2018.
He is a member of the scientific committee of the European Centre for the Study of Book History (CRELEB), Editor in chief of the scholarly journal Textus: English Studies in Italy and a member of the Italian national commission for the Evaluation of Scholarly Journals (Humanities section). 
He is currently working on a biography of Sir Walter Ralegh for Reaktion Books, London. An article documenting his discovery of new poems by Ralegh and other Renaissance courtiers appeared in the Times Literary Supplement in 2022.