David Lucking is Professor of English at the University of Lecce, where he teaches both English and Canadian literature. His full-length publications include The Serpent's Part: Narrating the Self in Canadian Literature, Ancestors and Gods: Margaret Laurence and the Dialectics of Identity, Plays upon the Word: Shakespeare's Drama of Language, Beyond Innocence: Literary Transformations of the Fall, and Conrad's Mysteries: Variations on an Archetypal Theme.