He is a member of the advisory committee of the “Museo Byron a Palazzo Guiccioli” (Ravenna, Italy), the coordinator of the Parma Unit of the Centro Interuniversitario per lo Studio del Romanticismo (Interuniversity Centre for the Study of Romanticism – CISR), and a member of the steering committees of Anglo-Hispanic Horizons, 1780s-1840s and European Romanticisms in Association.
In October 2022 he was appointed to the Board of Parma's Teatro Regio His research focuses on the literature and culture of the Romantic period, in particular on exoticism and orientalism, Gothic, national identity and gender; as well as on drama and theatre, and several central figures of the period including Jane Austen, Lord Byron, Robert Southey, Felicia Hemans, and Walter Scott.
His research also explores the international and transcultural relations between Britain and other European traditions at the turn of the nineteenth century.
His monograph Poetic Castles in Spain: British Romanticism and Figurations of Iberia (2000)[2] is often quoted as a crucial point of reference in this area of study.
"[4] From January 2017 to December 2023, Saglia was Head of the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Industries (Dipartimento di Discipline Umanistiche, Sociali e delle Imprese Culturali) of the Università di Parma and a member of the University Senate.