Recipients, readers and audiences. A transdisciplinary proposal

Debora A. Sarnelli holds a MA in translation studies from the University of Pisa and a PhD in English Literature from the University of Salerno where she currently teaches English at undergraduate level at the Department of Medicine. Her research interests focus on detective fiction, the sensation novel, literary geography and the twentieth-century novel.

Nicoletta Agresta obtained her PhD in Literary, Linguistic and Historical Studies at the University of Salerno and at the University Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 with a thesis titled Contes et nouvelles d'Émile Zola: une lecture sociologique. She is a member of the Editorial Committee of the review RIEF, Revue Italienne d'Études françaises, directed by Francesco Fiorentino. Her main research interests lie in Zola and Naturalism, the sociology of literature and studies on journalism.

Alessio Bottone obtained his PhD in Literary, Linguistic and Historical Studies at the University of Salerno and at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. His main research interests concern the history of the dialogue genre, in particular in the eighteenth century, and the literary text comprehension in secondary school students. He is currently a research fellow in Italian Literature at the University of Salerno.

Giovanni Genna obtained his Ph.D in Literary Studies at the University of Salerno. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Review «Sinestesie» and «Testi» section of the Series «Biblioteca di Studi e Testi. Dall’antica Babele alle contaminazioni della modernità» of the Department of Humanities of the University of Salerno. He has published some reviews and articles on Gadda, Pirandello and the literature of the Resistance that appeared in reviews, volumes and conference proceedings.

Riccardo Orrico obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Salerno and the Aix Marseille University, defending a thesis on individual variability on the perception of the meaning conveyed by intonation. His main research interests include the investigation of prosody and its interface with pragmatics and semantics. Currently he is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Naples “Federico II”.

Carmela Sammarco graduated at Ca'Foscari University of Venice with a thesis on the syntactic annotation of aphasic speech. She obtained her PhD dealing with the expression of Grammatical Relations in verbless constructions in spoken Italian and French, at the University of Salerno, where she is currently an adjunct professor of General Linguistics and Foreign Language Didactics. She has also collaborated as a tutor in training courses for teachers within the project I Lincei per la scuola.