Cauchi-Santoro Roberta

ORCID: 0000-0002-6703-0349

Roberta Cauchi-Santoro is Assistant Professor in Italian Studies at the Department of Italian and French Studies, St. Jerome’s University, University of Waterloo. Her research interests are in psychoanalytical feminist criticism, Italian women writers, Leopardi Studies and Anglo-Italian literary relations. She has published a monograph with Firenze University Press titled «Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett» (2016). She is also the author of several articles about various aspects of Anglo-Italian literary relations, theories of humour and Italian women writers.