Elisa BriccoElisa Bricco is the director of the Department of Modern Languages and Culture at the University of Genova. Her studies specialize in the French novel, theater, and poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries. Over the past two decades she has researched te narrative and paratexual strategies of the French novel; the relationship between contemporary writing and the postmodern paradigm; the place and the role of the author in contemporary society; the role of art in literature and cross-media creative dynamics. Read More Read Less