Annalisa Federici holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Perugia. Her main research areas are literary Modernism, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, formal aspects in fiction, and the relationship between writing and psychological processes. She is the author of a book entitled Il linguaggio e la realtà. La narrativa modernista di Virginia Woolf e James Joyce (Morlacchi 2011) and of a number of critical essays on Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Ford Madox Ford, Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor, published in national and international journals. She is currently teaching English language and literature at “Sapienza” University of Rome and “Tuscia” University of Viterbo.