Roberta Cauchi-Santoro is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at St. Jerome’s, University of Waterloo. She has co-edited Ferrante Unframed (2021) and authored Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett (2016). She published articles on Ferrante, Anglo-Italian literary relations and experiential learning in the Italian classroom. Her research interests include psychoanalytic feminist criticism and Leopardi studies.