Stefania Lucamante teaches Italian and comparative literature at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. She has been published widely in the United States, Italy, France, and Spain on women's writing and the contemporary novel and it's theory. Sharon Wood has been published very widely in the UK, America, Italy, France, Spain, and Australia on contemporary narrative and Italian women's writing. She is Head of the School of Modern Languages at the University of Leicester, UK.