Biographical note

Elisabetta Marino is Full Professor of English Literature at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy and head of "Asia and the West" research centre. She is the author of four monographs: a volume on the figure of Tamerlane in British and American literature; an introduction to British Bangladeshi literature; a study on the relationship between Mary Shelley and Italy; an analysis of the Romantic dramas on a mythological subject. In 2006 she published the first Italian translation of poems by Maria Mazziotti Gillan. In 2022 she translated Parkwater, a Victorian novel by Ellen Wood, for the first time into Italian. Between 2001 and 2025 she has edited/co-edited fifteen collections of essays and several special issues of prestigious international journals.Ajit Kumar, PhD is an academic, editor, reviewer and interviewer from Haryana, India. His research interests include cross-cultural conversations, critical analyses of marginalized narratives, women's writing, and cinematic representation. He has interviewed many writers and poets from the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Ireland, France, Brazil, Sri Lanka and India. Currently, he works as Assistant Professor of English (Emp. ID 12453) in a Govt. College running under the aegis of the Department of Higher Education, Haryana, India.