Women’s Voices and Genealogies in Literary Studies in English is addressed to MA and PhD students in women’s and gender studies, and to all those students or young scholars who are interested in gender methodologies as a mode of practice in literary criticism and analysis. The authors of the volume share a long-standing experience in women’s and gender studies and in teaching English women’s literature, literary criticism and feminist methodologies and theories to students from different national origins.
Gilberta Golinelli received her PhD from the University of Bologna, Italy, where she currently teaches English Literature, Feminist Methodologies and Critical Utopias. Her research fields include Shakespeare and early modern travel literature; the reception of Shakespeare in eighteenth century England and Germany; women’s literature, female utopian literature and utopianism; and feminist methodologies and gender studies. Together with essays and articles in international journals and edited collections, her publications are in the area of early modern English literature and Shakespearean studies. Her most recent book is Gender Models, Alternative Communities and Women’s Utopianism. Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn and Mary Astell (2018).