Author Biographies
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Tiziana de Rogatis, born in Naples, is currently Associate Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University for Foreigners in Siena, Italy. Her scholarship includes numerous articles, edited volumes, and several monographs on Eugenio Montale and T. S. Eliot, on Derek Walcott, on Kym Ragusa, on Elsa Morante, and of course, on Elena Ferrante. She is the editor of the journal for literary theory and criticism Allegoria and a member of the Italian Society of Literary Women (SIL). Her most recent scholarship focuses on figurations of female identity, ancient myth, and ceremonial rites in modern and contemporary Italian and world literature. Her book Elena Ferrante. Parole chiave (Elena Ferrante's Key Words) was published in 2018 in Italy, by Ferrante's own Italian publisher. In 2019 it was translated into English and published by Europa Editions, Elena Ferrante's publisher in the United States. She has presented her research around the world, from China to Sweden.
Emanuela Caffè is an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate scholar and a teacher in University College Dublin (UCD)'s School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics. Her research interests include Literary Theory, twentieth- and twenty-first-century Women's Writing, Gender and Queer Studies, and Trauma Studies. She is currently working on a research project on Elena Ferrante's fictions and feminism.
Stiliana Milkova is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Oberlin College. Her scholarly publications include articles on Gogol, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky, several articles on Elena Ferrante, and the monograph Elena Ferrante as World Literature. She has translated from Italian works by Adriana Cavarero, Anita Raja, Antonio Tabucchi, Alessandro Baricco, Dario Voltolini, and Tiziano Scarpa, among others. She edits the online journal Reading in Translation. [End Page 247]
Rebecca Walker is a PhD candidate in Italian Studies at the University of St Andrews. Her doctoral thesis examines the motif of fragmentation in modern and contemporary Italian women's writing, concentrating particularly on Goliarda Sapienza and Elena Ferrante. To date, her research interests lie broadly in the field of women's writing in Italian, where apart from Sapienza and Ferrante she has also worked on Elsa Morante and Jhumpa Lahiri.
Enrica Maria Ferrara (PhD, Reading) is a tenured Teaching Fellow in Italian at Trinity College Dublin. Investigating texts belonging to several cultures and chronological periods, from Boccaccio to Fernando De Rojas, from Shakespeare to Brecht, Ferrara's research is widely interdisciplinary and transcultural, interested in the viewpoint of liminality and hybridity. Her main publications are on Italo Calvino, Pier Paolo Pasolini, the intersection of narrative and performance in twentieth-century literature, the works of Elena Ferrante, and posthumanism in Italian literature and film. Among Ferrara's most recent published work: Calvino e il teatro (Peter Lang, 2011); Il realismo teatrale nella narrativa del Novecento: Vittorini, Calvino, Pasolini (Firenze University Press, 2014); Staged Narratives / Narrative Stages (Franco Cesati, 2017; co-edited with Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin); Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film: Boundaries and Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
Katrin Wehling-Giorgi is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at Durham University, UK. She has published widely on European modernism and twentieth-century and contemporary women's writing, including Elsa Morante, Goliarda Sapienza, and Elena Ferrante. She is the author of Gadda and Beckett: Subjectivity, Storytelling and Fracture (Oxford: Legenda, 2014), and she is the co-editor of Goliarda Sapienza in Context: Intertextual Relationships with Italian and European Literature (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016).
Rossella Di Rosa directs the language program at the University of Pennsylvania. Her academic interests focus on language pedagogy as well as Italian and Spanish modern and contemporary literature, environmental humanities, material ecocriticism, posthumanism, as well as gender studies. She has published several articles on the influence of María Zambrano's philosophical and poetical thought in Anna Maria Ortese's and Elsa Morante's works, and on the relationship between human and nonhuman animals in Italian Women's Writing. Her reading of Giacomo Leopardi as a proto-ecological [End Page 248] thinker appeared in the volume Mapping Leopardi. Recently, she contributed to the volume Food and Women in Italian Literature, Culture, and Society: Eve's Sinful Bite, with an article on Fabrizia Ramondino's uses of food as a...
