Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the University “G. D’Annunzio” of Chieti–Pescara, Italy. She has published a volume on the novels of Thomas Hardy (Liguori 2007), and essays on George Gissing, Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope, Mary Kingsley, Charles Darwin, on animal studies, women travel writing, and the relationship between science and literature in the XIX century. She has translated into Italians three volumes of short stories by George Gissing (Edizioni Tracce, 2000), Thomas Hardy (Transeuropa, 2012) and Hubert Crackanthorpe (ESI, 2015). She has contributed to international volumes and journals, and is currently editing a collection of essays on Thomas Hardy.