About the Author

Linda Risso is Wiener-Anspach Research Fellow at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Her research interests include history of European integration and Italian social and political history. In the past years, she has published various articles in Quaderno di Storia Contemporanea and Quaderni di Storia e Letteratura. Monica Boria graduated in modern languages at the Università di Macerata and obtained an MPhil in Italian Studies at the University of Birmingham. She is a lecturer in Italian at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Among her publications: “Teaching Language through Literature”, Tuttitalia, 27 (2003); “Echoes of Counterculture in Stefano Benni’s Humour”, Romance Studies Journal 23 (2005); “I romanzi di Stefano Benni”, in F. Pellegrini, E. Tarantino (eds.), Il romanzo contemporaneo: Voci italiane, Troubador [forthcoming].