'Take every creature in, of every kind'

Silvia Granata graduated in Foreign Languages and Literatures in 2002. After attending an MA at the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York, she received a PhD at the University of Pavia where she has also been awarded a post-doc research grant. Her work has dealt mainly with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English culture, focusing in particular on women's writing, the relationship between literature and science, children's literature and representations of the Orient.