Angela Leonardi is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Naples Federico II. Her research ranges from early modern to modernist and contemporary literature, combining close textual analysis with attention to imagery, character construction, and interdisciplinary perspectives. She has devoted several studies to Shakespeare, focusing on zoomorphic imagination, the figure of Iago, comic structures, and translation. Her most recent monograph is Il pensiero e la visione. Virginia Woolf saggista (2021).
Claudia Cao is a researcher in English Literature at the University of Cagliari. Her research focuses on the novel from the nineteenth century to the present, with particular attention to gender studies, posthumanism, and intermediality. She has co-edited several volumes, and her most recent book is I contro-spazi della narrativa di Ian McEwan: Teatri, carceri, giardini e altri luoghi (2022). She is co-editor-in-chief of the academic journal Between (betweenjournal.it), where she oversees the reviews section.