Rate My Professor Gina Di Salvo

Her key publications include the article 'Saints' Lives and Shoemakers' Holidays: The Gentle Craft and Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday' in Early Theatre 19.1 (2016), which examines connections between hagiographic traditions and Thomas Dekker's play. She contributed a chapter 'Signs of Liveness: Blazing Stars in Shakespeare’s Comets' exploring astronomical signs and theatrical vitality in early modern drama. Di Salvo authored reviews for Theatre Journal, including on adaptations like Gentle from Dostoevsky. As Associate Editor of Theatre Survey, she shapes scholarship in theatre history. Her influence extends through conference presentations and organization, such as chairing 'Theatre History on the Margins' at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), papers on 'The Virgin Martyr in Repertory' at Shakespeare Association seminars, 'The Morality Play, Recycled' at upcoming events, and 'The Saint Play, A Revision' on medieval-to-early modern transitions. Public lectures include the 2024 Strode Shakespeare Lecture 'Trial by Theatre: Shame and Social Judgement in Early Seventeenth-Century London' at the University of Alabama. Di Salvo's committee roles and editorial contributions enhance early theatre studies, bridging medieval hagiography, Renaissance drama, and contemporary dramaturgy.