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Maddalena Carfora (PhD) is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Naples L’Orientale. She is the author of the monograph Ai margini dell’oggetto-libro. Sperimentazioni intermediali in lingua inglese (Mimesis, 2025) and co-editor of Una panchina rossa in memoria di Giulia Tramontano: Le voci de L’Orientale contro la violenza di genere (Unior Press, 2025). Her research interests include narrative experimentation and multimodal literature, videogames and digital culture, as well as metamodernism, posthumanism, and ecocriticism. She has published a number of papers and essays in these fields. Between 2022 and 2024, she was a guest researcher at the Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies at Linnaeus University on multiple occasions, participating as a speaker in seminars and lectures.

Domenico Chirico holds a PhD from the University of Naples L’Orientale and Université Grenoble-Alpes. His research interests focus on the socio-cultural context of the second half of the twentieth century and early twenty-first century and on the figurative and spatial dimensions in the novel, cinema and graphic novels and comics. A second research area revolves around camp and queer playwriting in the twentieth century. He spoke at several conferences and published papers on these topics. He currently teaches at a high school.

Federica Conzo holds a PhD in Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies from the University of Naples L’Orientale, with a thesis titled La reinterpretación crítica y creativa del Romanticismo en la España de los años veinte y treinta. La mirada de las mujeres, whose publication is forthcoming. She is currently adjunct lecturer in Spanish language at the University of Naples L’Orientale and in Spanish Literature at the University of Basilicata. She has international research and teaching experience and spoke at several conferences. She has published several papers and translated Cartas que nunca envié by Yauci Manuel Fernández.

Lellida Marinelli is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Naples L’Orientale. Her doctoral thesis, Being a Contemporary Woman Writer: Essays on Writing by Deborah Levy, Jeanette Winterson and Zadie Smith, received the 2025 AIA PhD Prize. Her current research project focuses on the critical practice of the essay as a literary form in contemporary anglophone Caribbean essayists. Her work on women essayists, including Deborah Levy, Jenny Diski, Zadie Smith, Marlene NourbeSe Philip and Lola Olufemi, has appeared in journals such as Altre Modernità, Odradek and Synergies, as well as in edited collections including English Studies in Italy (Carocci, 2024). She has a background in literary translation and her research interests include experimental and self-reflexive writing, as well as metafiction and postcolonial literature.