Eleonora Federici (M.A., Ph.D. University of Hull, UK) is Associate Professor of English Language at the University of Calabria (Italy). Her main research areas are translation studies, gender studies and postcolonial studies from a linguistic and cultural perspective. She has co-edited with A. Lamarra and V. Fortunati The Controversial Women's Body: Images and Representations in Literature and Arts (2004) and she is author of The Translator as Intercultural Mediator (2006).