Marta Fossati is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Milan's Department of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Mediations. She holds a PhD from the University of Milan with a thesis on the South African short story in English, which she partially wrote during a visiting research period at Queen Mary University of London. Her research interests include South African literature, Postcolonialism, world literature, and, recently, Prison Shakespeare. She is a member of the Modern Language Association and the Research Network for Short Fiction Research, and an alumna of the Institute for World Literature.