Frances Clemente is MHRA Research Scholar in European Modern Languages and Lecturer in Italian at St Hilda’s College at the University of Oxford, UK. Her research focuses on notions of alterity and how they relate to normative patterns of thinking and behaving in nineteenth- and early twetienth-century Italian culture and literature, especially from a gender perspective. She has published articles in journals such as Italian Studies, Quaderni d’italianistica, and The Italianist.
Greta Colombani has recently completed an AHRC-funded PhD on communication with the Other World in British Romantic poetry at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is the author of two monographs: A gordian shape of dazzling hue: Serpent Symbolism in Keats’s Poetry (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017) and Talking across Unbridgeable Distances: Anglo-American Fiction and the Theme of Supernatural Communication in the Early Nineteenth Century (Edizioni ETS, 2023).