Annamaria Cascetta’s main areas of research are:
- History of Italian theatre during the Baroque period and the eighteenth century with particular reference to the Milan area;
- Theory and history of tragedy with specific attention to its modern declension and relation with the past;
- Analysis of the works of contemporary playwrights such as Luigi Pirandello, Samuel Beckett and Giovanni Testori;
- Theory, history and critical analysis of performative theatre of the twenty-first century.