Anna Pasolini is Associate Professor of English Language, Linguistics and Translation at San Raffaele Telematic University (Rome). Her research focuses on contemporary English and Anglophone literature and culture, with particular attention to the representation of gender identities and intersectional identities in popular narratives (fairy tales, crime/noir and speculative fiction). She has published essays on Angela Carter, Derek Raymond, Jeanette Winterson and Bernardine Evaristo and is the author of the monograph Bodies That Bleed. Metamorphosis in Angela Carter’s Fairy Tales (2016). Together with Nicoletta Vallorani, she is co-author of Corpi magici. Scritture incarnate dal fantastico alla fantascienza (Mimesis, 2021). She is a founding member of the C.H.A.I.N. research group and co-editor-in-chief of the journal Altre Modernità.