Editorial Board

Project Manager and General Editor
Professore di Letteratura Inglese
Università degli Studi di Milano
Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere - Sezione di Anglistica
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Francesca Orestano, Professor of English Literature at the Università degli Studi di Milano, has explored early American and Gothic literature and, besides working in the area of children's literature, has published essays on John Neal, Radcliffe, Dickens, Ruskin, Trollope, Burckhardt, Pater, Wharton, Wyndham Lewis and Virginia Woolf. She is the author of Paesaggioe finzione: William Gilpin, il Pittoresco, la visibilità nella letteratura inglese (2000), La parola e lo sguardo nella letteratura inglese tra Ottocento e Modernismo (2005); editor of Strange Sisters: Literature and Aesthetics in the Nineteenth Century (2009); Dickens and Italy: Little Dorrit and Pictures from Italy, with M. Hollington (2010); History and Narration: Looking back from the Twentieth Century, with M. Bignami and A. Vescovi (2011). She is a member of the International Research Society on Children's Literature.

Mariangela Mosca Bonsignore
Formerly Università degli Studi di Torino
Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere
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The research interests of Mariangela Mosca Bonsignore, former Associate Professor of English Literature at the Faculty of Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Università degli Studi di Torino, include Elizabethan and Jacobean poetry and drama, seventeenth-century Puritan literature and children's literature.  Besides various essays on Elizabethan and Jacobean courtly drama, Puritan biographies and religious pamphlets, she has published a fully annotated edition  of Orchestra, or a poeme of dauncing by John Davies (1984) and edited and translated James I's A Counterblaste to Tobacco (2004). She is also co-editor, with Paolo Bertinetti, of new bilingual editions of Shakespeare's Richard III (2002), Hamlet (2006) and The Tempest (2012). In the field of children's literature she has published For God's dear children. Letture per piccoli puritani inglesi del diciottesimo secolo (1998) and essays on the cautionary tales in verse of the early nineteenth century, on William Ronksley's The Child's Week-work and on Mary Martha Sherwood's The Governess.
In 2009 she published Puer oeconomicus. Consumo, denaro e lavoro nella narrativa per l'infanzia. Inghilterra 1740-1820. She has contributed three chapters to Dall'ABC a Harry Potter. Storia dellla letteratura inglese per l'infanzia e la gioventù, edited by L. Tosi and A. Petrina (2011).

Antonella Cagnolati
Professore Associato di Storia della Pedagogia
Università degli Studi di Foggia
Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione
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Antonella Cagnolati has taught at the Universities of Ferrara, Bologna and Urbino, and she is currently Associate Professor at the Università degli Studi di Foggia, where she teaches children's literature. She obtained her PhD in "History of the European Culture from the XIIIth to the XVIIth century" investigating the link between religion, books and behavioural models in seventeenth-century England. Her research interests include educational practices in Tudor and Stuart England, Puritan children's books in seventeenth-century England, Jan Amos Komensky's pedagogical theories and their reception in seventeenth-century England.

Elena Paruolo
Ricercatore di Letteratura Inglese
Università degli Studi di Salerno
Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere
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Elena Paruolo (University of Salerno) has contributed several essays on Joseph Conrad to specialist journals (like L’epoque Conradienne) and to collections  (among which: Joseph Conrad. Critical Assessments, Kent, 1992), and written a book, Il mito di Oxbridge. L’università nel romanzo inglese [The Oxbridge Myth. The University in English Literature] (Edisud, 1992). Her interest in children’s literature began at the end of the 90s. In 2003 she was elected a member of the Scientific Committee of the Réseau Littératures d’enfance (LDE) of the  AUF (Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie) and worked withthem until December 2007.  She has taken part in numerous national and international Conferences on children’s literature and is the author of a great number of essays on this topic published in Italian and foreign reviews and miscellaneous volumes. She has edited the volume Brave New Worlds. Old and New Classics of Children’s Literatures (Peter Lang, 2011).

Alessandra Petrina
Professore Associato di Letteratura Inglese
Università degli Studi di Padova
Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Anglo-Germaniche
www.maldura.unipd.it/dllags/docentianglo/petrina1.htm
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Alessandra Petrina (Laurea in Modern Languages, Università degli Studi di Padova; MA in Combined Historical Studies, The Warburg Institute;  PhD, Università degli Studi di Firenze) is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy.  She has written a monograph on The Kingis Quair (Padova: Unipress, 1997) and Cultural Politics in Fifteenth-century England. The Case of Humphrey, Duke of  Gloucester (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2004). Besides, she has published articles on late-medieval and Renaissance literature and intellectual history, as well as on modern children's literature. She has edited a number of volumes on early modern English culture. Her monograph Machiavelli in the British Isles. The Early Modern Translations of the Prince has recently been published by Ashgate (Farnham, 2009).

Laura Tosi
Professore Associato di Letteratura Inglese
Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati
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Laura Tosi graduated from the University of Venice in 1989. She earned her Ph.D. in English Literature (1995) at the Universities of Pisa and Florence. She has been teaching English Language, Literature and Culture at the University of Venice-Ca' Foscari since 1996 (as “ricercatore” or assistant professor from 1996 to 2005). Her current position is Associate Professor in English Literature. Her research interests and areas of specialization follow two main lines of development: Elizabethan-Jacobean drama and children’s literature. In the past twelve years she has regularly taught courses and conducted research on British children’s literature, dedicating special attention to the rewriting and the adaptation of canonical works. She has also been working on the history of the literary fairy tale (for both child and adult addressees), considering its socio-historical context, in England  and the English-speaking world. Her current research is focussed on Victorian and contemporary prose adaptations of Shakespeare's plays for children.

Marco Canani
Editorial Assistant and Webmaster
Dottorando di ricerca in Letteratura inglese
Università degli Studi di Milano
Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere - Sezione di Anglistica
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Marco Canani graduated in English Literature from the Università degli Studi di Milano. He holds a BA (Hons.), which he attained with a study of Shakespearean echoes in the poetry of John Keats, and an MA (Hons.), which he obtained with a thesis on Hellenism in British literature and art from the Augustan Age to the Early Moderns. He has tutored BA English students at the same university, and published essays on comparative literature, Charles Dickens, James Joyce and George Orwell. He currently holds a PhD fellowship in English Literature at the Università degli Studi di Milano. His research project investigates issues of aesthetics and gender identity in the fin-de-siècle responses to the Italian Renaissance.