Katrin Wehling-Giorgi is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at Durham University. She is the author of Gadda and Beckett (Legenda, 2014), and she has published widely on women writers including Morante, Sapienza, Sebold and Ferrante, with a specific focus on structural violence and the poetics of trauma. She has co-edited the special journal issue Elena Ferrante in a Global Context (2021) and Goliarda Sapienza in Context (2016). Her current research focuses on female subjectivity through the lens of Visual Studies and trauma in twentieth-century and contemporary Italian and World Literature.