Joseph R. Farrell

Joseph Farrell is Professor Emeritus in Italian of the University of Strathclyde, UK. He has written extensively on Italian literature, including biographies of Dario Fo and Leonardo Sciascia. He has written books on Sicily, on Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa as well as a history of duelling, in addition to translating many novels and plays from Italian. He was a frequenter broadcaster on BBC cultural programmes, has worked as a theatre critic for publications such as The Scotsman and the Scottish Review of Books and published reviews and essays on cultural subjects in the Times Literary Supplement and The National. He was given the title Cavaliere della Repubblica Italiana for his services to the diffusion of Italian Culture.