Lucio De Capitani is a researcher at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

His research interests include English-language literature from the colonial period to the present day (in particular English-language Indian literature, the works of Amitav Ghosh and Robert Louis Stevenson), theories of world literature, the relationship between anthropology and literary studies, and ecocriticism.

Lucio De Capitani is the author of the introduction to Venezia e l'Antropocene (Venice and the Anthropocene), published by wetlands in November 2022.