Eleonora Guidi

Eleonora Guidi is a PhD student at the University of Bologna in the DESE (European Literatures) program. She studies English, French and Italian literature of the 20th century with a comparative method. She has edited interviews and written essays for several academic journals and is a member of the editorial board of ‘Studi e problemi di critica testuale’.

She has studied in Italy, in France and in the UK. She is currently a visiting doctoral student at the Sorbonne Université in Paris, in the Centre de Recherche en Littérature Comparée.

Her doctoral project is devoted to the history of the Parisian bookshops Shakespeare and Company and La Maison des Amis des Livres owned by Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier, in the Parisian literary Odéonie from 1915 to 1945. 

Her research also focuses on the reception of Dante in England and Europe, with studies on illustrations and the book market, including periodicals and the history of literary salons from the end of the 18th century until the 20th century.