Enrica Maria Ferrara is Tenured Teaching Fellow in Italian at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Her books include: Calvino e il teatro (2011); Il realismo teatrale nella narrativa del Novecento: Vittorini, Calvino, Pasolini (2014); Staged Narratives/Narrative Stages (2017); Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film: Boundaries and Identity (2020). In 2024 her debut novel, Mia madre aveva una Cinquecento gialla was awarded the Rapallo Prize for fiction.