Interconnecting Music and the Literary Word

Fausto Ciompi is Associate Professor at the University of Pisa, Italy, where he teaches Contemporary English Literature. He has written extensively on contemporary poetry, Joseph Conrad, and postcolonial literature. His recent publications include “Uncertain Connections: Henry James’s ‘The Beast in the Jungle’” in Rivista di Studi Vittoriani (2014-2015) and “Conrad and Dream” in Conrad in Italy (2015).

Roberta Ferrari is Professor of English Literature at the University of Pisa, Italy. Her research interests range from 18th-century prose to Modernist and Postmodernist literature, intertextuality in contemporary fiction and drama, and Anglo-Italian cultural relations. Her recent publications include Ian McEwan (2012) and A Language of One’s Own (edited with Silvia Bruti, 2016).

Laura Giovannelli is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Pisa, Italy. Among her research fields are British aestheticism and Postmodernist and postcolonial literature, with a particular emphasis on South Africa. She is the author of Nadine Gordimer (2013) and recently co-edited the volume Questioni di genere: Femminilità e effeminatezza nella cultura vittoriana (2016).