Cristina Giorcelli is professor of American literature at the University of Rome Three, where she chairs the Department of Euro-American Studies and supervises its PhD program. Her primary fields of research are nineteenth-century fiction (including Henry James, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, and Edith Wharton) and modernist poetry and prose (Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Willa Cather, Louis Zukofsky, and Denise Levertov). She is cofounder and codirector of the quarterly journal Letterature d’America and the editor of Abito e Identità.