Dr Francesca Pierini

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Francesca Pierini is Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities at the Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh. She has previously been Adjunct Lecturer in the English Department of the University of Baslel, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and International Scholar at KU Leuven, Belgium. Her academic interests include Cultural Studies, Anglophone Literary Representations of Italian Culture, E.M. Forster, and the Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Romance Novel. Recent publications include the articles ‘“Roma” Spelled Backwards: Love and Heterotopic Space in Contemporary Romance Novels Set in Italy’ in The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love (ed. by Ann Brooks, 2021), and ‘Imploding Fireworks: Love and Self-knowledge in the Contemporary Italian Sentimental Novel’ in Love and the Politics of Intimacy (ed. by Dikova, McMahon, and Savage, Bloomsbury, 2023).