is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Milan. Her specializations include visual studies, gender studies and queer studies. Among her work, we mention Utopia di mezzo. Strategie compositive in When the Sleeper Wakes, di H.G.Wells (1996), Gli occhi e la voce. J. Conrad, Heart of Darkness: dal romanzo allo schermo (2000), Geografie londinesi. Saggi sul romanzo inglese contemporaneo (2003), Anti/corpi. Body politics e resistenza in alcune narrazioni contemporanee di lingua inglese (Libraccio Editore, 2012) and Millennium London. Of Other Spaces and the Metropolis (Mimesis, 2012). Her most recent publications are Corpi magici. Scritture incarnate nel fantastico e nella fantascienza (Mimesis, 2020; with A. Pasolini) and The Relocation of Culture, Translations, Migration, Borders (Bloomsbury, 2021; with S. Bertacco). She coordinates the project Docucity, on documentary filmmaking and urban geographies and is the Deputy director of the online journal Altre Modernità.