Eleonora Guidi

Eleonora Guidi is a PhD student in the University of Bologna in the DESE curriculum (European Literatures). She studies English, French, Italian and Spanish literatures with a comparative method. She has curated interviews and written essays for «Griselda Online», «TECA» and «Studi e problemi di critica testuale». In November 2021 Eleonora graduated at the University of Bologna in Lettere Moderne with a thesis on William Blake’s illustrations for the Divina Commedia. She continued her studies on Dante’s Romantic reception in England and Europe in the early 19th century during her master in Italianistica (Italian Studies) in Bologna and in her research at University College London. She discussed her final dissertation on Ugo Foscolo’s essays on Italian Literature in October 2023, under the supervision of Prof. Angelo Maria Mangini and Prof. Gilberta Golinelli, and graduated with 110/110 cum laude. She is currently in the first year of her PhD and she is working on the historical and literary engagement of two Parisian bookshops in the 1930s, Shakespeare and Company and La Maison des Amis des Livres.