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**Citation:** Contributors (2023)
Lea 12: pp. 455-457. doi: https://doi.org/10.36253/lea-1824-484x-14955.

## Contributors

Arianna Antonielli (<arianna.antonielli@unifi.it>) holds a PhD in English and American Literature and specializes in Humanities Computing and Digital Publishing. Among her publications: “‘Canons die hard’. L’ipercanone letterario in rete” (2011) and (with Mark Nixon), *Edwin John Ellis’s and William Butler Yeats’s The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical. A Manuscript Edition, with Critical Analysis* (2016).

Rachele S. Bassan (<rachele.bassan@unive.it>) is a PhD candidate at Ca' Foscari University under the supervision of Professor Laura Tosi. Her doctoral research focuses on metatheatre in the Jacobean and Caroline eras. She has contributed research and publications exploring the correlation between cross-dressing and metatheatre in early modern drama.

Sergio Basso (<sergio.basso.cina@gmail.com>) resided in China, dedicating his academic studies in Oriental Art and Literature. He obtained an MA in Oriental Languages from Venice University in 1999 and in Classics from the University of Milan in 2011. He completed his PhD in Byzantine Philology at Università Roma Tre in 2019. His primary area of study revolves around the Byzantine presence along the Silk Road.

Jasmine Bria (jasmine.bria@unical.it; <jasmine.bria@docenti.unisob.na.it>) holds a research grant at University of Calabria, where she earned a PhD in 2021. Her research primarily delves into the Old English and Middle English periods, particularly focusing on the *Exeter Book Riddles*, the *Wonders of the East* and Layamon's *Brut*. Currently, she is working on the Arthurian narratives in the textual transmission of the *Brut en prose*.

Luca Paolo Bruno (lucapaolo.bruno@unifi.it), PhD, teaches at the University of Florence. His research focuses on exploring the concept of intimacy with fictional characters in video games, particularly emphasising the intricate interplay between the user's intimate imagination and the mechanics of software.

Vincenzo D'Andrea (<vincenzo.dandrea@levi.edu.it>) is a teacher of classical languages who graduated with honours from Sapienza University of Rome, where he completed a BA in
Classics and an MA in Historical Linguistics. He collaborated with *Loescher Editore*, specialising in educational publications. His primary areas of research include historical linguistics, ancient Greek and Latin poetry, and gender and sexuality studies.

Chiara De Bastiani (<chiara.debastiani@unive.it>) is a Researcher in Germanic Philology at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Her primary research interests include analysing the syntax of Old West Germanic languages, and valorising the Germanic Cultural Heritage within the digital paradigm.

Federico Fastelli (<federico.fastelli@unifi.it>) is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Florence. His scholarly interests include Literary Theory, Visual Studies, and the interplay between literature and journalism. Among his most recent publications are *Epica dell'ottobre* (2018), *L'intervista letteraria* (2019), and *Imagetext* (2023).

Francesca Fraccaro (<francesca.fraccaro@unifi.it>) is Assistant Professor in Classical Japanese at the University of Florence. Her current research focuses on Heian period literature, with particular reference to 10th century poem-tales (*utamonogatari*) and personal poetry collections (*shikashū*).

Daniela Fruscione (fruscione@jur.uni-frankfurt.de) is an independent scholar who held the position of Research Fellow at the Institute für Rechtsgeschichte of Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität. She authored Das Asyl bei den germanischen Stämmen im frühen Mittelalter (2023) and contributed to the Handwörterbuch zur deutschen Rechtsgeschichte. Her primary focus lies within the Early Middle Ages, particularly Anglo-Saxon and Lombard legislation and charters.

Concetta Giliberto (<concetta.giliberto@unipa.it>) is a Professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Palermo. Her fields of research include eschatological texts in medieval Germanic literatures, the Old Frisian written corpus, stone lore in the Anglo-Saxon and Middle High German traditions, as well as the relationships between runic writing and ancient Germanic cultures.

Martina Guzzetti (<martina.guzzetti@unimi.it>) is a PhD candidate at the University of Milan. Her main research interests include historical uses and representations of language and gender in lexicography, news discourse, and the popularisation of medical knowledge.

Maria Cristina Lombardi (<mclombardi@unior.it>) is a Professor of Nordic Languages and Literatures at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. She is the founder of a Translation Laboratory at the University “L’Orientale” where Master and PhD students engage in translating texts across various genres while delving into both theoretical and practical dimensions. In recognition of her career as a translator, she was honoured with the “Natur och Kultur” Prize in 2006 by the Academy of Sweden. She has organised various conferences and seminars about medieval and modern Scandinavian literatures.

Tina Maraucci (<tina.maraucci@unifi.it>) is Assistant Professor of Turkish Language and Literature at the University of Florence. She authored *Leggere Istanbul, Memoria e lingua nella narrativa turca contemporanea*. She has published about Turkish contemporary literature in various collective volumes and academic journals.
Isabella Martini (<isabella.martini@unifi.it>) is a full-time English Language instructor at the Department of Education, Languages, Intercultures, Literature and Psychology of the University of Florence. She holds a PhD in Foreign Literature (English specialisation, University of Pisa). She has published on the Anglo-Canadian short story and on translation. Recently she has focused on research in linguistics, specifically on corpus linguistics, media discourse, and historical English. She is also a member of The Corpora and Historical English Research Group (CHER) – Florence Unit.

Carmen Mitidieri (<carmen.mitidieri@unifi.it>) is a PhD candidate in German Studies at the University of Florence. Her present research focuses on the reception of E.T.A. Hoffmann, specifically exploring his afterlives in both GDR and Post-GDR literatures.

Giacomo Micheletti (<giacomo.micheletti@unimib.it>) obtained a PhD in Sciences of Literary and Musical Texts at the University of Pavia in 2019. His published works include numerous articles focusing on 20th-century Italian writers and translators, notably Fruttero & Lucentini, Franco Lucentini, and Gianni Celati.

Ilaria Natali (<ilaria.natali@unifi.it>) is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Florence. Her primary research interests are the study of literary writing processes and the relationships between literature and the history of medicine, with particular reference to eighteenth- and twentieth-century works.

Federica Perazzini (<federica.perazzini@uniroma1.it>) is an Assistant Professor in English Literature at Sapienza University of Rome. She has been a Fulbright Fellow since 2011 and received a MSCA Seal of Excellence in 2023. Her research interests focus on the evolution of gothic narrative conventions from a transmedial and gender perspective.

Francesca Pierini (<francesca.pierini@auw.edu.bd>) is an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities at the Asian University for Women. A former Adjunct Lecturer at the English Department of University of Basel, her academic interests include Anglophone Literary Representations of Italian Culture and the Anglophone Romance Novel.

Marianna Pozza (<marianna.pozza@uniroma1.it>) is an Associate Professor in Historical and General Linguistics at Sapienza University of Rome. Her research interests include historical linguistics, Indo-European phonology, Latin nominal morphology, Greek phonology and morphophonology, Hittite phonology and Greek-Anatolian linguistic interference during the 2nd millennium B.C. She has worked in the field of Indo-European etymology within the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics.

Carla Riviello (<carla.riviello@uniroma3.it>) is an Associate Professor of Germanic Philology at University of Roma 3. Her research areas include translation strategies in Old High German, the vocabulary concerning pain and emotions in Old English and Old Saxon, stylistic strategies in Old English and Old Saxon poetry, as well as magic and marginality in Anglo-Saxon England.
Ayşe Saraçgil (<ayse.saracgil@unifi.it>) is a Professor of Turkish Language and Literature at the University of Florence. Currently she is working on the analysis of the literary representations of gender, family, and social hierarchies in Turkey.

Diego Salvadori (<diego.salvadori@unifi.it>) teaches Comparative Literature at the University of Florence. He specializes in ecocriticism, Gender Studies, and Literary Theory. Among his recent publications are *L'atlante di Claudio Magris* (2020) and *Il tempo del diaspro* (2023).

Letizia Vezzosi (<letizia.vezzosi@unifi.it>) is Professor of German philology at the University of Florence. She co-founded and co-directs the online journal *Medioevo Europeo*. She has edited special issues of the journal Germanic Philology focusing on “North Sea Languages”, “Old English Prose”, and “Middle English: Language and Manuscript Traditions”. Her research interests span historical linguistics, philology, and medieval studies, with special emphasis on Old and Middle English as well as Middle Dutch language and literature.